Prototyping

Concept part manufacturing:

• Manually formed individual components (e. g. mounting brackets, body shell side panels)
• Complex welded components ans assemblies for concept vehicles
• Manufacturing of Klopfstempel and deep-drawing-tools
• Units: 1 to 5

Manufacturing of prototypes:

• Utilities made of gray cast, steel and synthetic material
• Complex structural and body shell components, hot-formed prototype components
• Subassembly, e. g. doors or hatches
• Surfaces: Class A (passivated, coated or painted)

Close-to-production prototype vehicles:

• Accurate implementation of series production methods in the forming and copying process
• Validation of the customer's serial production relating to forming, spring back, joining techniques and surfaces
• Backup for preproduction process

• Problem-solving know-how based on long-standing expertise from a leading European supplier of prototype parts
• Mapping of the entire prototype range, from manually fabricated parts to sophisticated sub-assemblies and all the way through to the testing and securing of pre-production
• Possibility of manufacturing assemblies of larger quantities as well in ZSB production cells
• Implementation of extremely tight deadlines thanks to high employee flexibility

• Development and production of transfer and progressive dies
• Series tools for cold and hot forming (materials: steel and aluminum)
• Series tools for hot forming in the direct process
• PCB cuts
• Tools for outer skin parts and structural parts

• Development, production and commissioning of series tools (also internationally) for high-tensile and high-strength structural parts as well as for outer skin parts per customer-specific requirements
• Excellent method and material competence for steel and aluminum
• Short lead times
• Pre-production series safeguard

• Manufacturing feasibility studies
• Series production material off-tool or with laser cutting
• Structural and outer Skin parts as well as steel and aluminum sub-assemblies
• Quantity: up to 20,000 annually

• Integrated engineering from a single source
• Process protection from prototyping to series production
•  Ability to also implement larger projects with various individual parts and sub-assemblies in the steel-aluminum mix

• Complete product chain within the Salzgitter Group, from the primary material (steel plate), through blanking, forming and assembly