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The technology for case hardening forging dies has come a long way, especially in processes such as gas nitriding. This course looks at the advances in hardening technology and explores how markets such as AM have rapidly evolved and, in doing so, impacted die technology and forging generally.

The Use of direct metal deposition (DMD) additive manufacturing on forging dies
Direct metal deposition (DMD) is a powder-jet additive-manufacturing (AM) technique that can be used for low-cost build, repair, hardfacing and reconfiguration of forging dies. The technique has also been used to add features such as flanges and bosses to forged parts to improve their functionality. This article uses four case studies to examine this technique.
Dr. Bhaskar Dutta and Arshad Harooni

Will additive manufacturing threaten the forging industry?
AM is a disruptive technology that has evolved during the past 30 years from the creation of plastic parts to metal part creation via several new and evolving metal-deposition technologies. The techniques are providing serious options for the production of metallic parts, meaning forge shops must keep a watchful eye on this unfolding technology, both as a competitor and as an opportunity.
Jon D. Tirpak

Designing forgings with digital thermomechanical analysis
To stay competitive, forgers must continuously integrate advanced manufacturing technologies into their production. Emerging advances in modeling can be reliably used as a design aid in the thermomechanical processing of forged parts.
Piotr Skubisz, Lukasz Lisiecki and Magdalena Wolk

Metal AM update: Growth, processes and barriers
AM technologies have drawn a lot of attention and investment from the manufacturing community in recent years. The origins of the AM industry (also called the 3D-printing industry) date back to the 1980s. As the technology set inevitably improved in capabilities and processes exceeded certain operating temperatures, new materials emerged as candidates for AM processes, most notably metals.
Eric Herrmann

A study on the forging of AM parts
Additive manufacturing (AM) has become a specific topic of interest in the general manufacturing community due to its novelty and projected abilities for ground-up automation. In metalworking, AM processes have been studied in various depths over the past 20 years, just recently making significant strides as the popularity of metal-additive processes grows.
Timothy Cyders