Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 5 (2018) 19576–19585 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings 2214-7853 © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and/or Peer-review under responsibility of Materials Processing and characterization. ICMPC_2018 Role of Simulation in Metal Forming Processes Mohammad Saad a *, Shagil Akhtar b , Mudit Srivastava a , Jeet Chaurasia a a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial College of Engineering, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 227105, India b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Integral University Kursi Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226021, India Abstract The paper reviews recent advances and ongoing technologies on which today’s industry work upon in the metal forming processes. This paper has also included some revolutionary researches which later became the base for many processes. Metal forming is advancing field as we can observe different, innovative and easy methods are been introduced for sheet metal process also heavy research been done in forging and extrusion process for its optimization. With growing technologies, we adapt with advance processes. Simulation is one of the way through which the mimic of the process could be done which further helps in analysis of defects, loading profile, stress-strain curve. The analysis is done via Finite Element Analysis or Finite Volume Method in which the mesh grid over the desired surface is made and then simulated. The more refined the grid the better the results. The simulation is provided by the software in which we must give specifications of whatever we process or material we need to simulate. This is the great tool for observing and get a predictable idea of process and thereby obtain desirable result by altering the specification. Also, the integration of CAD/CAM helps further processes to regulate with software and has also been covered in the paper. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and/or Peer-review under responsibility of Materials Processing and characterization. Keywords: Metal forming processes; Simulation; Finite Element Method; Finite Volume Method; CAD/CAM. 1. Introduction Simulation provides precise material flow as predicted. It helps in analysis of flow induced defects, analyze material flow and grain flow in forging. Simulation helps in areas where it is difficult to analyze complicated parts such as crankshafts also 3D and 2D parts. The future development of simulation software is working in the following directions: * Corresponding author:Tel: +91-8009720888. E-mail address: saad.sidd29@gmail.com