Applications for tailored blanks
At present, tailored blanks are mainly being used in the automotive industry:
- Side panels
- Doors
- Wheel arches
- Side members
- Floors
Car side panels
- Elimination of reinforcements
- Lower weight
- Reduced number of parts
- Improved impact protection by using high-strength materials
- Improved material utilization through optimized nesting
Car doors
- Increased stiffness allows elimination of reinforcements
- Improved fitting tolerances
- Lower weight and reduced number of production steps
Wheel arches
- Lower costs through elimination of spot welds
- Elimination of sealing materials and associated work
Side members
- Fewer individual parts
- Improved crash performance by using different material thicknesses
- Positive change to forming properties in seam area compared with spot-welded part
Floors
- Improved stability of finished parts
- Elimination of overlapping joints
- Lower weight
- Elimination of sealing materials and associated work
- Advantages in recycling process