For the past week, we’ve been learning to
do the calculation of forces with Gaizka, bending forces, cut forces, and we’ve
analyzed the dimensions of the stripe that will be introduced into the
progressive die that we are going to design for the next few weeks.
We’ve also analyzed the types of press that
we can find in the challenge, like mechanicals or the hydraulic ones, and we
did all of that with Asier, who also helped us with the load notebook.
We’ve worked on the scheme that we’ll have
to follow for the design as well as for the fabrication, type approval, and
industrialization of the progressive die, and we’ve also worked on how the
following process will be.
We’ve done the planning of the project via
an app of Drive called GANTTER, which has helped us to clear our heads when
we’re thinking of the dates that we have to deliver every part but also of how
long will the project take.
Also with Gaizka we have analysed which
should be the position of the pieces inside of the stripe; the different types
of distributions: the normal, the inverted one and the oblique.
With Julen we’ve started to learn new
techniques of CATIA, and we’ve done the pieces that appear in the report, paying special
attention into the sizes and the stage directions.
YAIZA GUERRA
In this week the teachers continue giving
us theory. The last week we started with the blend processes. The first days of
this week we continue with that, specifically we started with the forces used in the blend. We need to
know how to calculate that , to know the force our die is going to need to
blend the material and make our piece.
Once we finished with the theory of blend we started with the theory of
cutting processes. The first thing we
see about that is the best disposition of the piece in the sheet. This
disposition only take into account the use of the material, how much material
is left over ( the less the better). The truth is that apart from that we need
to consider many factor to know the best disposition. 
Continuing with the cutting processes we
also see the force we are going to need to cut the piece . This depends of the
material we are going to cut, the thickness of this material and the geometry
of the tolls we are going to used to make the cut. We also maked practical exercises of all of this.
On the other
hand we also continue with CATIA design program. This week we see some of the
basic commands of the program, like last week. To practice this we make same
simple pieces. Also we make a mock exam , which consisted of making the pieces
the teacher (Julen) give us in the given time. In this way we know how the exam
will be and what will be evaluated in it. We know how how we have to do it. 
Apart of that we
have two more subjects, English and EIE ( Empresa Iniciativa Emprendedora, Company
Initiative). We dedicate few hours a week to this subject, so we haven´t got a
lot of time for it. In EIE we need to do a fictitious company, we decide what services
provide and what to sell in the first days. In this week we complete that
making a Business Canvas, with is a a visual chart with elements describing a firm's or product's
value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances.
On the other
hand, in English we started making some Listening exercises.
To finish the
week we updated the planning of our proyect.
ANDONI SOTO
In this past week we started some new theory with gaizka
about bending and cutting, finnishing that type of theory. When we finished
that theory, we made a exam with a practic and theoric part about cutting.
Apart
of Gaizka´s subject, we continued with our proyect of EIE doing the Organization
chart and explaining it in a blog in Drive. In tha Organization chart we put
how our business will work and what´s our number of employers for any part.
At last we continued with diferent tools in catia,
finnishing the box and learning another type of tools like revolution.
MARKEL ZEARRETA
This week, with Gaizka, we end with the cut and bend theory. At the end of the subject, we did a theoretical/practical examination.
In the subject of bussines (Ane), we made an organizational chart explaining how many workers our company counted. With Julen, on the other hand, we learn different tools in Catia, such as the Ass.
ANTON EGUIA
In the third week of the class we have done a lot of excercises in
different areas. In the subject of Gaizka per example, we have done many
excercises of different cutts made with cutting tools after learn the
theory.
We started with the theory of the extraction force too, looking the theory
about the broaches and their properties: Sharp, width, diameter... All this
concepts we learned about the broaches was applicated to made a excercise about
the functioning of a concret die. We made too another excercise about the bent
theory we learned the first two weeks.
In Catia we saw new concepts of the programm to continue with the learning
of it. To practice these commands we have done a lot of relative simple
excercises. We have seen new patterns like rectangular and circular pattern to
make easier the construction of our pieces.
With Ane we have done the Project to see our activity in the company in the
future. We have separated the different areas of our company and analized them.
Then we putted different roles in the team.
