Industry 4.0, known as the fourth industrial revolution, generates great potential for self-organized, networked products. Industry 4.0 products have the ability to detect the environmental conditions and are enabled to communicate with each other. They collect lifecycle data, verify information and…
Tailored Forming, which is explored in the Collaborative Research Centre 1153 at the Leibniz University Hannover, is a highly sophisticated set of manufacturing technologies that allow producing hybrid forming parts consisting of two different materials. In this paper, two elements of a computer-aided…