After successful commencement of International Workshop on Sheet Metal Forming Process at 21 different locations in 14 countries Germany, Czech republic, Japan, UK, Portugal, Russia, Croatia, China, Brazil, USA, France, Slovakia, Mexico and Spain, GOM & APM Technologies organised the same in India on 12th of April. The workshop was held in Pune the hub of auto manufacturers and their vendors and was attended by almost 100 participants from companies like Bajaj Auto, Force motors, General Motors, JBM, John Deere, Magna, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors, Tata Technologies, Volkswagen and many others including IIT Bombay and other technical institution from the country.

The workshop was focused on the issues that sheet metal industries are facing today and solution to those issues through optical metrological equipment produced by GOM GmbH, Germany.

APM Technologies arranged live demonstration of equipment for Tool & die optimisation, tracking & virtual assembly, Quality control & inspection of sheet metal parts and strain measurement for material analysis. All this was done under one roof in a span of one day.

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