BM-STAMP
Automotive Stamping Simulation Software

Predicting part quality early in automotive manufacturing is crucial because relying on physical tryouts can be costly and time-consuming when unexpected defects occur and need to be corrected at this late phase in the engineering cycle.

Body Manufacturing-Stamp (BM-Stamp) from ESI is a cost-attractive simulation solution that empowers automotive part manufacturers to optimize their stamping processes, reducing the reliance on physical prototypes, and improving the precision and quality of manufactured parts from early on in their project lifecycle.

BM-Stamp provides an extremely easy-to-use graphical interface enabling precise stamping validation for all automotive materials without requiring engineers to have FEM or other numerical expertise, enabling highly predictive formability, accuracy, and aesthetic results in a consistent manner.

Recognized as a trusted engineering partner, ESI delivers precise validation for engineers to consistently achieve top simulation results, and as a consequence reduce overall costs, and accelerate production timelines.

Key Values Delivered by BM-Stamp

• Minimize Cost and Time in Physical Try-Out: Validate the stamping process by predicting and eliminating formability issues (e.g. cracks, wrinkles), compensating for springback and ensuring required cosmetic surface quality before any physical tool is milled.
• Reduce your current total cost-of-ownership for stamping simulation software: Reduce your current stamping software budget or increase your computational capabilities through attractively-priced flexible token licenses.
• Guarantee Manufacturability: Ensure design intent can be achieved without manufacturing or cosmetic issues through highest predictive confidence.
• Minimize Material Cost: Through accurate blank outline prediction.
• Minimize Time Between Try Out and Production: Ensure upfront the required part quality for selected press line(s).
• Obtain Highest Aesthetical Quality: Use dedicated contours for the detection of possible surface defects and conduct shopfloor-like analysis in a virtual lightroom to realistically assess location, size and severity of identified defects.

Main BM-Stamp Applications

• Validate the final part quality by applying full stamping process validation for hot and cold formed sheet metals.
• Evaluate and eliminate surface defects by using a virtual light room environment.
• Minimize material utilization and waste.
• During the stamping process, include elastic tool and press deformations for large parts and high strength steel components.
• Predict, control and compensate springback (in single or multiple operations).
• Determine accurately the minimum required press force to ensure part can be manufactured on a selected press.