Automotive Roll Forming

Automobile industry needs more steel. It is continually adopting high strength steel parts to make their products more sturdy and durable. But the steel prices are today at an all time high. Should automobile industry increase the price of our cars? No. Then how can they meet their demand of high strength steel parts? The answer lies with the spare parts manufacturers.

And the automotive industry knows this and this is why it has asked its manufacturers to search cost effective ways for making bumpers, chassis components, door window runners and cross supports. Now it is the turn of manufacturer's to look further than metal stamping. Prudent manufacturers have already started using automotive roll forming machines while others are still vacillating.

An automotive roll forming machine is one, which can make quality auto parts out of metal plate or steel sheet with little or no scrap. A roll forming machine bends and forms flat coils of metals out of a metal plate or steel sheet. Use of a roll former reduces the number of defective parts produced thus increasing the volume. It also delivers repeatable part tolerances. In this way, manufacturers can utilize maximum steel they bought at a high price. Latest machines use flying technology for cutting profiles 'on-the-fly'. This technology helps in producing virtually interrupted assemblies with quality repeatable designs. Finite Element Analysis software is another technique used to add quality to roll forming products. It is a software, which can raise the bar in your tooling design and no need to mention that advance tooling helps produce high quality repeatable parts.