Ford’s On-Demand Sheet Metal Forming
While it’s not exactly new, new, this is an advancement and who knows, in a few years, you can sit at home and stamp out a few, many or hundreds of metal diecasts …
“Ford engineers are developing a highly flexible, first-of-its-kind, patented technology to rapidly form sheet metal parts for low-volume production applications. Once fully developed, the technology (Ford Freeform Fabrication Technology, or F3T) will allow for lower costs and ultrafast delivery times for prototypes — within three business days versus conventional methods that take anywhere from two to six months.”
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1 August 2013
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My dad, who passed away decades ago, would be surprised but pleased. In the early 1950’s, he worked at a Ford Stamping plant in Buffalo, NY, obviously doing it the old fashioned way using large heavy dies to pound out 3 dimensional parts from flat steel.
Combine this with 3-D printing and, who knows, maybe the car of the future can be made at home!
Thanks for pointing this out ! It has some special meaning to me.