This study Is concerned with the development of design support program for deep drawing process. The present support program is designed to generate the layout drawings by utilizing the following key functions: analysis of product shape, generation of key stages by pattern database, determination of layout generation method, generation of layout. furthermore, from the results by process design program input data for simulation Is automatically generated with appropriate process parameters and connected seamlessly to carry out the finite element analysis so that the design can be checked for the possible problems in real manufacturing process. The designer can generate layout drawings and test the design by simulation quickly and conveniently In these system designer can verify and optimize the design. We tested this system for various type of product shape md found that the generated layout is in good agreement with the real cases.
