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Digitalization In Tailor Welded Blanking
How Digital Twins Are Revolutionizing Welding for Advanced High-Strength Steel In automotive engineering, welding isn’t just joining metal. it’s where strength, weight savings, and sustainability meet. Today’s challenge? Making tailor-welded blanks (TWBs) from advanced high-strength steels perform perfectly in final components without costly physical testing. That’s where digitalization steps in. AHSS Insights’ latest piece dives […]
WorldAutoSteel Releases Latest Advanced High-Strength Steel Application Guidelines
Latest edition of leading global resource focuses on smarter engineering and manufacturing with AHSS 24 November, 2025 Brussels, Belgium– WorldAutoSteel, the automotive group of the World Steel Association, has released the latest edition of its Advanced High-Strength Steel (AHSS) Application Guidelines. The globally recognised resource provides vehicle manufacturers, automotive engineers, and designers with the most […]
Automotive Steels: Exploring the Phases That Make the Difference
For modern automotive steels, the strength, ductility, and formability start at the atomic level. In his latest AHSS Insights blog and companion video, Danny Schaeffler PhD, President of Engineering Quality Solutions and Technical Editor for the Advanced High-Strength Steel Application Guidelines, takes viewers inside the fascinating world of steel microstructures. He explains how atomic arrangements—known […]
Five Questions with Ingo Olschewski
As WorldAutoSteel’s new Director, Ingo Olschewski shares his perspective on the future of automotive steel, from electrification and sustainability to the opportunities shaping tomorrow’s mobility. What do you think are the greatest opportunities for automotive steel, both in the near and long-term? I’m extremely excited about the future of automotive steel – we see opportunities […]
Steel Welding Methods Through a Life Cycle Assessment Lens
When it comes to EV battery enclosures, welds matter. A new article on AHSS Insights takes a close look at welding methods through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), comparing their environmental impacts from raw materials to end-of-life. Specifically, it covers how Laser Welding, Laser Brazing, and Resistance Spot Weld Bonding stack up, and where energy use, […]
How Press-Hardened Steels Are Helping to Shape the Future of Automotive Safety
Automotive engineers and designers are always looking for ways to make cars lighter, safer, and more efficient, and one of the biggest game-changers is press-hardened steel. Today’s press-hardened grades offer incredible strength-to-weight advantages, allowing engineers to create vehicle structures that can take on extreme crash forces while still reducing overall mass. That means better safety […]
WorldAutoSteel Announces Appointment of Ingo Olschewski as New Director
WorldAutoSteel has announced the appointment of Ingo Olschewski as its new director. He succeeds Cees ten Broek, who will serve as an advisor to the organization until his retirement later this year. With more than two decades of experience in the automotive industry, Olschewski will lead WorldAutoSteel’s global membership of automotive steel producers to advance […]
Steel E-Motive Microstudies: Engineering Safety for Future Mobility
As the automotive industry transforms to future mobility, safety will remain a top priority. WorldAutoSteel’s Steel E-Motive (SEM) concept vehicle demonstrates how Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS) can meet the most demanding global crash requirements, even in compact and unconventional vehicle designs. Two recent Steel E-Motive Microstudies offer insights into how the safety challenges of autonomous […]
Practical Solutions for Liquid Metal Embrittlement in AHSS Welding
Liquid Metal Embrittlement (LME) during resistance spot welding (RSW) has long been a concern when working with advanced high-strength steels (AHSS). But the good news? Recent breakthroughs in steel metallurgy, welding practices, and simulation technology are making LME much easier to manage in production environments. In a new post at AHSS Insights, technical editor Dr. […]