"Today in the metalforming industry, if you're not performing some form of finite-element analysis (FEA), either forming analysis or die simulation, you're not in the game," says Michael Strazzanti, owner of the Isatec Technical Center, the captive tooling operation for Com-Corp Industries, Cleveland, OH, and user of FEA die simulation. "What really differentiates us from our competitors are what we call our 'incremental applications.'" What Strazzanti refers to are the lesser known secondary FEA applications and services typically not offered in the die-design industry. One of them, the simulation and prediction of surface-finish quality, Strazzanti and his company developed themselves.
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