ABSTRACT
The products manufacturing such as thixoforming involves a long line of complex steps: Ingots elaboration, shearing and sawing, transfer, reheating, second transfer to the press, transformation by forming process, extraction of the produced part and its transfer to heat treatment, and nally cleaning and lubricating the forming dies. This processing is given in Figure 51.1 where the process used to obtain the thixoforming steel bars is a classical steel elaboration with continuous casting or ingots and hot rolled operations to obtain the good diameter and the manufacturing line is equivalent to the hot forging fabrication process.
