Tailored Products – the basics
When you are looking for a product that consolidates various components into a single stamping, you are looking at tailored products. Tailored products allow product design engineers to optimize part design from a variety of aluminum or steel blanks or coils. This results in reduced part weight and cost while maintaining or increasing performance.
Another significant benefit of tailored products is improved coil nesting. The same materials can be welded together to improve material utilization of individual components or to produce a blank or coil at a width that cannot be rolled or coated by conventional mill processing.
TWB Developments
TWB has grown over the years with products that meet and exceed the demands of the automotive industry. Our product lines include:
- Tailor Welded Blanks
- Tailor Welded Coils
- Hot Formed Tailor Welded Blanks
- Aluminum Tailor Welded Blanks
Advantages at a glance
- Weight reduction
- Cost reduction
- Part consolidation
- Material utilization
- Lower capital cost – having only one part to stamp means only one die set is needed
- Improved crash performance through the use of tailor welded products
- Elimination of overlapping joints improves corrosion behavior
- Optimized nesting and optimum material usage
- Elimination of sealing compound offers advantages in recycling
- Improved forming behavior