• Vehicle Light Weighting
• Safety Standards
• Cost of Manufacturing/ Vehicle
• Keep work in USA
• Heavy work load/ High Goals / Big Responsibility
• HOT Forming Boron Steel
− Heat up/ transfer into die/ Stamp
Part/ Cool Part
• HOT Forming Boron Steel
− Large investment and energy
usage
− Furnace requirements, time to
heat up
− Transfer between furnace and
press
− Cooling of material and time
• COLD Forming High Tensile Strength
Steel
− Part Quality: wrinkling/tearing
- Inadequate forces
- Inconsistency in material batch
- Friction/ Heat
• COLD Forming High Tensile Strength
Steel
− Part Quality; wrinkling/tearing
− Inadequate forces
− Inconsistency in material batch
− Friction/ Heat