What is "autoform"

AutoForm Engineering GmbH located in Wilen bei Wollerau is a Swiss software developer. The company develops and markets software products for the die making and sheet metal forming industry. This covers product manufacturability, tool and material cost calculation, die face design and virtual process optimization. In this field the company had in 2009 a market share of 50 to 60 percent, and in 2008 of the largest 20 automotive OEMs and most of their suppliers were using AutoForm.

1995 the company emerged as a Spin-off from the Eidgenössischen Technische Hochschule Zürich. There, the development of the simulation software started 1990 - the dissertation of founder Waldemar Kubli. Subsequently, the company created subsidiaries in Europe, North and South America and Asia.