El conformado incremental como nueva técnica de prototipado rápido

Various industrial sectors (aerospace, automotive,) use forming processes nowadays to produce components of complex shapes from sheet metal. Traditional processes that use arrays are suitable for the production of large volumes of parts, but are not profitable for small series (special vehicles, prototypes, ...). Incremental forming is a different process, intelligent and flexible, which presents itself as an alternative to traditional forming methods. This process is based on Rapid Manufacturing methodologies, and greatly reduces tooling costs, since it only requires a simple tool support. It’s well suited to the manufacture of prototypes and small series by low production costs, but the time required to manufacture a part, typically several hours, which makes it impractical for longer runs.