Industry applications
DeepForm technology is proving its value in high-volume manufacturing environments
Cutting waste, reducing cost, and improving efficiency across automotive, heavy goods vehicles, and packaging sectors. Our solutions integrate seamlessly with existing systems, delivering measurable performance gains without disrupting production.
APPLICABILITY
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Material: cold-pressed steel and aluminium grades
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Gauge: sheet thicknesses from 0.25 to 3mm
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Shape: wide range of deep or complex shaped parts
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Press integration: tandem, progressive die and transfer press lines
industry use cases
Passenger vehicles
Overview:
Passenger vehicle OEMs operate under strict cost, quality and sustainability metrics.
Challenge:
High material waste (~45% of all auto sheet metal pressings), tight margins, and demanding engineering validation cycles make sheet-metal stamping increasingly difficult.
Solutions:
DeepForm enables pressing and blanking waste through improve tool geometry, delivering material-efficient parts without compromising manufacturability.
Outcome:
Lower per-part cost, improved sustainability metrics and lower emissions.
Heavy goods vehicles
Overview:
Heavy goods manufacturers face similar pressures to passenger-vehicle OEMs but operate with larger components across longer life cycles.
Challenge:
Larger part sizes amplify waste and increase emissions over long product life cycles.
Solutions:
DeepForm fold-shear can be adapted to oversized components.
Outcome:
Lower per-part cost, improved sustainability metrics and lower emissions.
Beverage cans
Overview:
The beverage can industry produces over 300 billion units a year and work with very small margins per can.
Challenge:
Manufacturers lose ~15% of aluminium to blanking and trimming scrap, face increasing OEM pressures on sustainability and recycled content, and rely on tooling that limits further lightweighting.
Solutions:
DeepForm’s fold-shear approach combined with tessellated blanks allows for a lower process line scrap.
Outcome:
Overall blanking and trimming scrap minimised to ~10%
Other applications
Overview:
Many industries rely on pressed metal parts where material utilisation and cost are critical.
Challenge:
Sectors such as white goods, appliances, industrial enclosures, and consumer products face high material waste, rising aluminium and steel prices, and pressure for greener production.
Solutions:
DeepForm adapts easily to non-automotive geometries such as square based cups which are commonly used across various industries.
Outcome:
Lower cost, less waste, and improved sustainability metrics across a broad range of sheet-metal components.