The world's cold-forging community met in Valenciennes for 3 days

LAMIH is proud and pleased to have hosted the 58th plenary meeting of the International Cold Forging Group (International Cold Forging Group - ICFG) in Valenciennes from September 14 to 17. The event was co-organized with L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers and Mines Paris-PSL

The global cold forging community gathered in Valenciennes for 3 days to exchange ideas, foster collaborations and advance forming technologies.

Professors Laurent Dubar and Yoshinori Yoshida opened the session, which brought together around 100 industry and academic experts from 13 countries to exchange knowledge and drive innovation in cold forging technologies.

Day 1

The participants first began working in sub-groups around the themes:

Lubrication,
Smart data,
Computational cold forging,
Tool life and quality,

to then reconvene for a collective session.

The day ended with a Gala dinner in the magnificent Chapelle du Royal Hainaut.

The opportunity for Laurent Dubar to pass on the torch to Peter Groche for the organization of the next edition of the ICFG plenary meeting to be held in Darmstadt (Germany) and to offer a symbolic gift "an Eiffel Tower rivet", manufactured by Agrati Group and engraved with the effigy of ICFG2025 thanks to LAMIH's FEMTO Laser.

Day 2

Day 2 was devoted to company visits:

and ended with a cultural and convivial moment: a visit to the Brasserie La Choulette and its museum followed by a good meal typical of the North.

Day 3

The last day of the convention was another intense one!

On the program: Keynotes, ICFG AGM, awards ceremony and work presentations!

Thank you to André Dubois, Marion Merklein, Frédéric Perdriset, Francisco Chinesta and Kazuhiko Kitamura, who did us the honor and pleasure of giving a keynote in their area of expertise:

Galling of aluminum - from characterization to numerical prediction
Prof. Andre Dubois - LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201 - UPHF (France)

Intelligent forming: how AI can shape the future of cold forming
. Prof. Marion Merklein - Institute of Manufacturing Technology - FriedrichAlexander-Universität (Germany)

Status and technical and environmental prospects for cold forging
Mr. Frédéric Perdriset - Setforge (France)
The state of the art and environmental prospects for cold forging
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From AI-based hybrid twins in engineering operations to generative AI enabling optimal design of materials, structures, processes and systems.
Prof. Francisco Chinesta - Arts et Métiers & CNRS@CREATE (France & Singapore

Tribological effect of billet pretreatment by wet shot blasting before lubrication for cold forging
Prof. Kazuhiko Kitamura - Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan)

The ICFG 2025 International Prize has been awarded to Mohd Kaswandee Razali, Tahumi Nakane and Nadine Lehnert.

The ICFG YSEP 2025 Young Scientist Exchange Prize has been awarded to Fuka Minami and Jiaqi Liu.

Thank you to K. Razali, Takumi Nakane, Nadine Lehnert, Eiichi Ota, Robert Meißner and Tanmoy Rakshit for their enlightening presentations:

Improving the fatigue strength of Ti6Al4V bolts through edge lamination based on finite element analysis, by M. K. Razali
Autonomous optimization of lubricant processing conditions in hot forging via a highly connected cyber-physical system, by Takumi Nakane
Innovative process chain for cold forging: development and validation of a material model for strain-induced martensite in metastable austenitic cast steel, by Nadine Lehnert
Acceleration based on tool motion calculation data for continuous tube forming for adaptive control, by Eiichi Ota
Study on the use of AI methods for online quality control of threaded screws, by Robert Meißner
Comparison of different manufacturing processes for aluminum bosses used in pressure vessels, by Tanmoy Rakshit