1   Heat Treatment Under Concurrent Circumstance
The concurrent pattern differs ultimately from the serial pattern .With regard to serial pattern，the designers mostly consider the structure and function of die and mould，yet hardly consider the consequent process，so that the former mistakes are easily spread backwards．Meanwhile，the design department rarely communicates with the assembling ， cost accounting and sales departments．These problems certainly will influence the development progress of die and mould and the market foreground． Whereas in the concurrent pattern，the relations among departments are close，the related departments all take part in the development progress of die and mould and have close intercommunion with purchasers．This is propitious to elimination of the conflicts between departments，increase the efficiency and reduce the cost .Heat treatment process is not after blueprint and work piece taken but during die and mould designing．In this way，it is favorable to optimizing the heat treatment process and making full use of the potential of the materials．
2   Integration of Heat Treatment CAD／CAE for Die and Mould
It is easy to know that the process design and simulation of heat treatment are the core of integration frame．After  information  input via product design module and heat treatment process generated via heat treatment CAD and heat treatment CAE module will automatically pide the mesh for parts drawing，simulation temperature field microstructure analysis after heat—treatment and the defect of possible emerging (such as overheat ,over burning)，and then the heat treatment process is judged if the optimization is made according to the result reappeared by stereoscopic vision technology．
2.1 3-D model and stereoscopic vision technology for heat treatment
The problems about materials，structure and size for die and mould can be discovered as soon as possible by 3-D model for heat treatment based on the shape of die and mould ． Modeling  heating  condition  and  phase transformation condition for die and mould during heat treatment are workable，because it has been broken through for the calculation of phase transformation thermodynamics ， phase transformation kinetics ， phase stress ,thermal stress，heat transfer，hydrokinetics etc．For example，3-D heat conducting algorithm models for local heating complicated impression and asymmetric die and mould，and M ARC software models for microstructure transformation was used ． Computer  can present  the  information of temperature，microstructure and stress at arbitrary time and display the entire transformation procedure in the form of 3-D by coupling temperature field ,microstructure field and stress field ． If the property can be coupled ,various partial properties can be predicted by computer．
2.2 Heat treatment process design
Due to the special requests for strength，hardness，surface roughness and distortion during heat treatment for die and mould，the parameters including quenching medium type，quenching temperature and tempering temperature and time，must be properly selected，and whether using surface quenching or chemical heat treatment the parameters must be rightly determined．It is difficult to determine the parameters by computer fully．Since  computer technology develops quickly in recent decades ,the difficulty with large—scale calculation has been overcome．By simulating and weighing the property，the cost and the required period after heat treatment．it is not difficult to optimize the heat treatment process．
2.3 Tool and equipment for heat treatment
After heat treatment process is determined，tool and equipment CAD／CAE system transfers the information about design and manufacture to the numerical control device．Through rapid tooling prototype，the reliability of tool and the clamping apparatus can be judged．The whole procedure  is transferred by network，in which there is no manmade interference． 冲压模具英文文献和中文翻译(3):http://www.751com.cn/renwushu/lunwen_4504.html