Additive Manufacturing – AHSS Insights Blog
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been associated with the future of manufacturing since its inception. Using AM to manufacture forming tools for Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS) and Press Hardened Steels (PHS) brings the opportunity for reduced tooling lead-time,...
Vision for Industry 4.0 in Sheet Metal Forming
The manufacturing industry is currently experiencing a significant transformation of digitalization, connectivity, and higher flexibility of the manufacturing process. Industry 4.0 has been defined as “a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in...
AHSS Guidelines Version 7.0 Available!
We are very excited to announce today the launch of a new version of the Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS) Application Guidelines, the leading source for technical best practices on AHSS metallurgy, forming and joining. But you won't be downloading a large PDF...
Steel E-Motive Steel Structures for Autonomous MaaS Vehicles: Progress Update
The WorldAutoSteel Steel E-Motive program has been moving along now for nearly a year, and we’d like to share an update with you, our engineering colleagues, on some of the design decisions we’re facing. If you recall, the Steel E-Motive program is designing vehicle...
Life Cycle Assessment: 6 areas designers need to consider when taking an LCA approach to vehicle development
Designing vehicles with an LCA focus is a new concept for most product designers. In this blog,Russ Balzer, Technical Director for WorldAutoSteel and Dr. Don Malen, College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, we define six areas for designers to consider...
Join us at American Iron and Steel Institute’s online Great Designs in Steel, 19 May 2021!
Great Designs in Steel brings together engineers from many walks of the automotive industry to present their steel research, advancements and designs. You can view the line up of technical presentations here. And WorldAutoSteel will be there! We'll be presenting an...