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The time and cost to introduce new quality products are emerging as major competitive factors in the world automotive market. The industry will need to achieve substantial improvement, if metal stampings are to be introduced within the time frames being established by major international companies. There will need to be significant advancement in the technology of designing and tooling metal stampings. A present limitation is the lack of predictability in the actual forming operations of metal stampings. To achieve predictable results, without extensive development and trial and error, requires that the present “ART” of tooling development be transformed to an experience-enhanced science based technology. This suggests that an alternative system is required. The alternative system would utilize Computer Aided Analysis Tools. While much work has been done to develop such systems, to date there has been little acceptance by the industry.