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Automotive World Hosts Steel E-Motive Webinar 7 December
In this free, 60-minute webinar, Ricardo’s Neil McGregor and WorldAutoSteel’s George Coates showcase the vehicle technical specifications and expectations for steel innovations. The experts will also outline innovations in the progression of key component structures. Key topics and takeaways: Overview of market influencers and motivations for fully autonomous MaaS vehicles Discussion on steel […]
AHSS Insights Blog: The Latest Global Formability Diagram
Bubble chart. Banana diagram. Steel strength ductility diagram—it’s been called a lot of things over the years. But the Global Formability Diagram (GFD) is our most popular image request from engineers and students all over the world and appears in thousands of presentations and papers. Because of that, we periodically update it to make sure […]
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, reduced tooling cost, and optimization of the tools for weight, strength, and thermal management. This AHSS Insights blog is an […]
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 manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing and cognitive computing and […]
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 file! The AHSS Application Guidelines Version 7.0 is now online at ahssinsights.org in […]
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 concepts for Mobility as a Service (MaaS), characterized by autonomous, electric, […]
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 when taking an LCA approach to vehicle development: Functional Equivalence, Material utilization, Material […]
Introduction to LCA: A steeluniversity.org course
This two-hour course, Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment, introduces the methodology to analyze the environmental burdens of product and service systems. Prof Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner guides you in exploring life cycle assessment (LCA) through the use of instructional videos. Society requires the means to process a tremendous amount of data to make informed decisions for […]
Importance of LCA in the Automotive Sector
In this video, Russ Balzer LCACP, Technical Director, WorldAutoSteel, explains the importance Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) plays in fully determining vehicle environmental impacts. After viewing the video, check out some of the other resources available to learn more about LCA, its importance and why it is should be included in the next generation of vehicle […]