Laser brazing makes for lighter seats

Suppliers are seeking to develop innovative ways to reduce the weight of new vehicles. Significant savings of more than 350lbs can be made for certain body-in-white (BIW) lightweighting processes, but for many OEMs, lightweighting at the system and component level is becoming necessary.

Suppliers are therefore spending significant amounts of time and money to better understand how to integrate new materials in different areas within the car. However, this typically requires the development of innovative manufacturing processes.