FORGING PERFORMANCE REIMAGINED
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ForgeIQ has designed, modernized, and installed forging facilities globally for aerospace, structural, engine, energy, and industrial products More than a consultancy, ForgeIQ becomes your trusted advisor and partner in helping to align your business model and build a formidable forging operation based on 21st century technologies. • Facility layout and design • Flow path optimization • Equipment specification • Existing equipment and flow path evaluation • Equipment bidding and selection process • Complete process and heat-treat/quench simulation • Thermal management • Finite element analysis (FEA) • Non-destructive testing • Forging process development • Total productive maintenance (TPM) • Qualification support • Project management • Business strategy and business case evaluation ForgeIQ will improve your facility’s performance regardless of size, offering expertise on every level Three steps to boosting forging performance Improve your bottom line, safety, and operational efficiency while establishing reliable and repeatable production Decades of expertise enable ForgeIQ to identify opportunities for process and equipment optimization Specify equipment and facility technologies that will advance the effectiveness of your operation ADVISE CRITICAL RE-EVALUATION EVALUATE OPTIMIZE 3795 South Green Road, Beachwood, Ohio 44122 U.S.A | (216) 539-4797 | www.forgeiq.com Forging Performance Reimagined FORGING PERFORMANCE REIMAGINED
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ForgeIQ has designed, modernized, and installed forging facilities globally for aerospace, structural, engine, energy, and industrial products
More than a consultancy,
ForgeIQ becomes your
trusted advisor and partner
in helping to align your
business model and
build a formidable forging
operation based on
21st century technologies.
•Facility layout and design
•Flow path optimization
•Equipment specification
•Existing equipment and flow path evaluation
•Equipment bidding and selection process
•Complete process and heat-treat/quench simulation
•Thermal management
•Finite element analysis (FEA)
•Non-destructive testing
•Forging process development
•Total productive maintenance (TPM)
•Qualification support
•Project management
•Business strategy and business case evaluation
ForgeIQ will improve your facility’s performance regardless of size, offering expertise on every level
Three steps to boosting forging performance
Improve your bottom line, safety, and operational efficiency while establishing reliable and repeatable production
Decades of expertise enable ForgeIQ to identify opportunities for process and equipment optimization
Specify equipment and facility technologies that will advance the effectiveness of your operation
ADVISE
CRITICAL RE-EVALUATION
EVALUATE OPTIMIZE
3795 South Green Road, Beachwood, Ohio 44122 U.S.A | (216) 539-4797 | www.forgeiq.comForging Performance Reimagined
FORGING PERFORMANCE REIMAGINED
Engines•Discs and rings•Shafts•Hubs•Ring casings•Fixtures
Landing gear•Net shape forgings•Rough machining•Wheels and brakes
Structural forgings•All
Energy related forgings•Land-based gas turbines•Retaining rings•Wind turbine forgings
General shop layout•2D and 3D CAD formats•Integration steps
Reference traveler / in process documentation design
Architecture global process / product flow
Redaction of specification “Good for Order”•Process performance
requirements•Manufacturing requirements•No load/load acceptance
procedure
Auxiliary equipment•Saws•Shot blast•Manipulators•Charging machines•Coating cabins
Pre-heat furnaces•Box•Rotary•Chain•Car bottom
Expander/Caliber
Broad and deep experience in all facets of forgingChemical process (cleaning, descaling, etching, pre-cleaning NDT inspection)•Titanium alloys•Nickel alloys•Aluminum alloys•Steel alloys
Rough machining•Vertical lathes•Horizontal lathes•Horizontal boring•Milling
Support qualification forging process reference AS9100 / NADCAP / Customer (12 / 24 / 36 months)
Open die•Conversion titanium – Engine,
structural, energy forgings•Conversion nickel – Engine
and energy forgings•Kneading 3D aluminum
Closed die•Structural forgings –
Aluminum, titanium, steel•Disc forgings – Steel and
nickel (energy); titanium and nickel (engine)
•Propeller forgings – Titanium (energy)
Ring roll•Pre-forms•Ring rolls•Expanders
Heat treatment (NADCAP)•Aluminum•Titanium•Nickel•Steel
Training forging process technologies (12 months)•Open die•Closed die•Ring roll
Customer relations and sales support•Development preliminary
process tools•Development costing and
pricing tools•Support customer solicitations
– RFI, RFQ
3795 South Green Road, Beachwood, Ohio 44122 U.S.A | (216) 539-4797 | www.forgeiq.comForging Performance Reimagined
Forging process layout•Conversion•Kneading•Pre-form – Standard•Pre-form – Rings•Closed die•Ring roll•Heat treatment (forged or
rough machined products) •In-process chemical process
(cleaning, descaling, etching, pre-cleaning FPI and MT)
Non-destructive testing (NDT) for NADCAP•Ultrasonic immersion•Incoming bar•Discs•Rings•Structures•Fluorescent penetrant
inspection (FPI)•Magnetic particle inspection
(MPL)•Blue etching
Heat treatment (forge and rough machined forging parts) NADCAP•Box furnaces•Drop top furnaces•Charging machines•Quenching tanks
(water and/or polymer)•Quenching tanks (oil)•Air cooling•Rapid air cooling•Spray quenching – Disc•Spray quenching – Shaft•Washing tanks•Cooling tanks•Freezers
Support development MES•Development architecture
working mode on closed die line (manual, semi-automatic, automatic)
