- Registration of friction properties of sheet metal/lubricant combinations
- Optimisation of drawbead forms and drawbead materials
- Optimisation of drawing edge and die edge radii
- Registration of wear behaviour of tool material and tool coatings
- Characterisation of tribo-systems
- Tempered strip drawing tests (plane, bead, with deflection)
- Characterisation of lubricants
- Endurance tests with exemplary pressing processes (run through of entire coils up to a width of 300mm)