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Industry 4.0 in Metal Forming Industry Towards Automotive Applications: A Review

Year: 2022

Type: review

Abstract: Industry 4.0 is shaping the metal forming industry. The ongoing key Industry 4.0 technologies, including the industrial cyber-physical system (I-CPS), industrial internet of things (I-IoT), digital twin (DT), big data (BD) and cloud computing (CC), are expected to improve every stage during the metal forming processes, including the supply chains, raw material provision, tool design and manufacture, forming operations, energy consumption, cost, quality control and customer services. Here, we review the development and implementations of these key Industry 4.0 technologies in the metal forming industry. Based on the discussion of the opportunities and challenges of Industry 4.0 technologies in metal forming, this review provides some perspectives of future metal forming research directions towards automotive applications.

Source: International Journal of Automotive Manufacturing and Materials

DOI: 10.53941/ijamm0101002

Authors: Heli Liu, Dhawan Saksham, Merrill Shen, Kangan Chen, Vincent Wu, Liliang Wang

Institutions: Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh

Language: English

Topic: Digital Transformation in Industry

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: China Scholarship Council