2024 New energy Vehicle Advanced Forming technology Conference

On April 16-17, Schuler participated in the “2024 New Energy Vehicle Advanced Forming Technology Conference and the 8th Automotive Hot Stamping Forming Technology and Process Development Forum” held in Wuhu, Anhui Province. In the hot forming venue, Yang Hejun, senior sales manager of Schuler (China) Forging Technology Co., Ltd. introduced to the guests “Schuler Hot Forming StrongLine – a solution to reduce the cost of hot stamping in China.”

BE3-25A Yang Hejun, senior sales manager of Schuler (China) Forging Technology Co., LTD

According to Yang Hejun, Schuler as an international brand with more than 180 years of history, localized manufacturing is still an important process for Schuler. As the global market continues to change, the customer needs of China’s metal forming industry continue to evolve, and the industry competition continues to strengthen, Schuler has been listening to the voice of customers, exactly understand the needs of local customers, and launched a series of local solutions suitable for China localization. Through several years of continuous development, the new generation of StrongLine thermoforming equipment can meet the requirements of more complex thermoforming parts production. Yang Hejun emphasized the diversification of Schuler products through the comparison of different production lines. The StrongLine is primarily aimed at manufacturers with limited capital and small batch planning stages, making it an ideal choice for entry-level equipment for the hot forming process. The equipment is designed by Schuler Germany and its core components are imported from Europe and manufactured at Schuler’s Dalian plant in accordance with Schuler’s globally consistent quality standards. StrongLine’s localization is meant to benefit more Chinese customers, not only shortening delivery times, but also not imposing import duties on Chinese customers, greatly reducing procurement costs.

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In addition, Yang Hejun also made a detailed introduction from the high cost performance and specific configuration of StrongLine equipment: The corresponding automatic configuration is more flexible, according to customer needs, to provide different options, so that customers can choose according to their actual needs. In other configurations, in addition to the roll-bottom furnace and appropriate automation, the Schuler StrongLine is equipped with a 1200 ton hydraulic press with a table size of 3.0 x 2.5 meters. Its body body adopts stress relief annealing process, very strong; Designed with independent die filtering hydraulics, the body has a real-time monitoring system with three sliders to ensure horizontal accuracy of the sliders, and the StrongLine can be equipped with a robotic or double-bar semi-feed robotic arm to reach speeds of up to BE3-25A 5 SPM per minute. To meet the future demand for double door rings in the Chinese thermoforming market, Schuler has also developed the StrongLine plus, a 2,000 ton thermoforming press equipped with a large countertop (4000 x 3000). As a new thermoforming product promoted by Schuler China, StrongLine plus is favored and purchased by local customers in China with Schuler’s brand guarantee, high quality product quality and very earth price, which is just in line with the rapid development of customer groups in the automobile industry.

Schuler’s advanced “internal high pressure forming”, “hot stamping” and “carbon fiber composite forming” technologies play an important role in the global thermal forming field. In order to better align with the needs of China and other major markets, Schuler has developed a series of products and solutions to meet the needs of the local market through in-depth research and integration of the organizational structure and the overall structure. The Schuler Mech HS stamping line and StrongLine thermoforming products presented at these two events are tailored to local customer needs in Asia and China and developed for the mid-price segment. In the long run, only by meeting the needs of customers can we really help customers develop in the long run.

With the rapid development of the automobile industry and technological progress, the demand for hot stamping is getting higher and higher. Therefore, Schuler will follow the development trend of stamping technology integration, high efficiency and low cost, accelerate the pace of product research and development, and better align innovation with market demand, promote the automobile manufacturing industry forward, and make its own contribution to the real reduction of cost and efficiency of automobile production.