The mould and die industry is characterized by permanently rising competitive pressure. Competitiveness has to be increased with higher productivity through declined machining times and costs as well as the same or higher quality of the products to be machined. A key technology to reach these objectives is the 5-Axes HSC machining of sculptured surfaces, whose potentials are currently used but not bailed out. Therefore the main objective of the BRAGECRIM pro-ject “Holistic Optimization of Sculptured Surface Manufacturing” (HoliMan) is to identify and exploit the production accuracy and efficiency increasing potential. In this project Brazilian and German researchers work together on the holistic optimization of sculptured surface manufacturing by considering the significant impacts of the manufacturing process on the work-piece quality.
