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The electromagnetic forming has the advantage of a minimum forming time, but this is a major obstacle in determining the process’s history of the forming workpiece. Both experimental and theoretical known analysis methods for this process give a discret array of data (only for the displacements). One considers it is more adequate to use the finite element method in studying this process. The main advantage of the finite element analysis is given by the fact that it shows the stress and strain fields in a continuous way during the deformation process. Also, it offers a model from which one can predict the final shape of the part and the possible crack zones. One present a compared study of the experimental and the simulated results achieved of the free bulging aluminum specimens by electromagnetic impulses.

To become "flexible" is the equivalent of becoming successfully for almost any firm -the activities based on old and traditional product "recipes" are, obviously, excluded. But, in the framework of a global economy crisis, the statistics seems to prove that flexibility is no longer enough in order to avoid troubles. At the same time, another statistics prove that almost 80% of the products are failing at their first release on market. The paper presents a genuine marketing aggregate indicator "The Product's Anticipated Success Ratio", special developed to help the true "agile" enterprises to face -throughout their product concept developing -the challenge of an increasing turbulent global market. Through the main factors had in view inside of that indicator modeling example was the used material -as a friendly environmental approach. To reach this purpose, an assessment questionnaire was used as tool for a market inquiry, on a sample of twelve textile Romanian industrial enterprises.