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A tailor-welded blank consists of steels of different gauges, strengths and coating types welded together to produce a single blank prior to forming. From its basic inception in the mid 1980s to its present status, the tailor-welded blank process has become an important element of automotive component manufacture, progressing from a simple two-piece floor pan application in the Audi 80 to intricate...