Sunday, September 14, 2025

Time Event (+)
16:00 - 17:00 Registration at Royal Hainaut - Registration at Royal Hainaut  
17:00 - 19:00 Advisory Board Meeting

(& continued registration)
- Advisory Board Meeting - Room LA RHONELLE

(& continued registration)
 
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome Cocktail - AGORA (AGORA)  

Monday, September 15, 2025

Time Event (+)
08:15 - 09:00 Registration - Registration  
09:00 - 10:00 Opening of 58th ICFG Plenary Meeting & Presentations – Room HAUTCLOCQ  
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break - AGORA (AGORA)  
10:30 - 12:30 Subgroup Meeting: Lubrication – Room LE XV




Subgroup Meeting: Smart Data – Room HAUTCLOCQ
 
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break - AGORA  
13:30 - 15:30 Subgroup Meeting: Computational Cold Forging – Room LE XV



Subgroup Meeting: Tool Life and Tool Quality – Room HAUTCLOCQ
 
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break - AGORA  
16:00 - 17:00 Joined Session – Room HAUTCLOCQ  
19:00 - 22:00 Gala Dinner – LA CHAPELLE  

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 16:30 Tour A: pink sticker
Departure at Royal Hainaut : 9:00
Vallourec
Lunch Break - TMMF
Agrati
17:00 Social Event








Tour B: green sticker
Departure at Royal Hainaut : 8:30
Hydro
Lunch Break - TMMF
Toyota
17:00 Social Event








Tour C: yellow sticker
Departure at Royal Hainaut : 8:30
Toyota
Lunch Break - TMMF
Hydro
17:00 Social Event
- Industrial visit
 
17:00 - 19:30 Brewery Visit - Brewery Visit  
19:30 - 22:30 Dinner  

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:10 Keynote Talk – Room HAUTCLOCQ - A. DUBOIS – LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201 – UPHF - France
Galling of aluminium - from the characterization to the numerical prediction
 
09:10 - 09:50 Keynote Talk – Room HAUTCLOCQ - M. MERKLEIN – Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg – Germany
Smart Forming: How Al can shape the future of cold forming
 
09:50 - 10:30 Keynote Talk – Room HAUTCLOCQ - F. PERDRISET – Setforge – France
Status and technical and environmental perspectives of cold forging
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break - AGORA  
11:00 - 11:40 Keynote Talk – Room HAUTCLOCQ - F. CHINESTA – PIMM UMR CNRS 8006 – Arts et Métiers – France
From AI-based Hybrid Twins in engineering operation to Generative AI empowering optimal design of materials, structures, processes and systems
 
11:40 - 12:20 Keynote Talk – Room HAUTCLOCQ - K. KITAMURA – Nagoya Institute of Technology – Japan
Tribological Effect of Billet Pretreatment with Wet Blasting before Lubrication for Cold Forging
 
12:20 - 12:30 Group Photo - Group Photo  
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch - AGORA  
13:30 - 14:40 General Assembly & ICFG Prizes - Room HAUTCLOCQ  
14:40 - 15:00 Paper Presentation - Room HAUTCLOCQ - Mohd Kaswandee Razali - MFRC, Research and Development Center - Republic of Korea
Fatigue performance of Ti6Al4V bolts improved by fillet rolling based on finite element analysis
 
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break  
15:30 - 15:50 Paper Presentation - Room HAUTCLOCQ - Takumi Nakane - G-CADET, Gifu University - Japan
Autonomous optimization of processing conditions for lubricants in hot forging via strongly-connected cyber physical system
 
15:50 - 16:10 Paper Presentation - Room HAUTCLOCQ - Nadine Lehnert - Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology - Germany
Innovative process chain for cold forging: Developing and validating a material model for deformation-induced martensite in metastable austenitic casted steel
 
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break  
16:40 - 17:00 Paper Presentation - Room HAUTCLOCQ - Eiichi Ota - Toyota Central R&D Labs. - Japan
Data-driven acceleration of tool motion computation for continuous tube forming toward adaptive control
 
17:00 - 17:20 Paper Presentation - Room HAUTCLOCQ - Robert Meißner - fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG - Germany
Study on the use of AI methods for inline quality monitoring of threaded screws
 
17:20 - 17:40 Paper Presentation - Room HAUTCLOCQ - Tanmoy Rakshit - Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Components - TU Dortmund - Germany
Comparison of Alternative Manufacturing Routes of Aluminium Bosses Used in Pressure Vessels
 
17:40 - 18:00 Closing of the 58th ICFG Plenary Meeting & Outlook ICFG 2026  
CNRS CCSD Sciencesconf