Based on such idea, the authors have developed an incremental sheet forming system with local heating using a
tool having a built-in heater (Hino et al., 2008, 2010) to form aluminum alloy and magnesium alloy sheets. Duflou
et al. (2007, 2008), Tanaka et al. (2008) and Göttmann et al. (2011) have used laser beam for local heating in single
point incremental forming (SPIF) of aluminum alloy, steel and titanium sheets.