Automotive Sheet Steels (pg. 4)
From concept to rollout, Burns Harbor's technical and logistical support helps you maximize the value of our steel
Burns Harbor's Product Application Group and its Detroit-based Automotive Applications Team work with you to select the right steel and optimize its usage in your product.
With extensive experience in research, engineering, production and quality assurance, the Detroit-based automotive applications team has the capability and in-depth materials expertise to provide updates on new and experimental steels and structural/design services. They are leaders in formability analysis and can draw upon a stock of fully characterized sheet material to assist in die development and prototype build.
Our Detroit-based team can match your specific application to the manufacturing process to provide value and performance from concept through volume production. In addition, the entire Product Application group routinely works with our customers to remove cost and add value to the manufacturing process.
Bethlehem remains one of the technical leaders of the industry, thanks to comprehensive research dedicated to improving our processes and our products
Future generations of vehicles will need to be lighter, safer and manufactured at a lower total cost. This demands increasing levels of technology and innovation by both the automaker and the steelmaker. At our Homer research laboratories, over 200 highly trained Bethlehem research scientists are committed to developing technology, improving manufacturing processes and bettering steel performance while lowering total cost.
Technical Service Representatives use their production and quality assurance know-how to develop the solutions you need
Experienced people with both production and quality assurance backgrounds are available as needed for on-the-spot steel expertise to keep stamping presses running efficiently.
Bethlehem quality teams partner with your personnel to continually improve operations and working relationships
They provide fundamental support in improving your operation and provide the communication link between your shop floor and ours.
Customer Service Representatives facilitate your day-to-day transactions
Experienced Customer Service Representatives make order processing and shipping easy, fast and accurate. They also are the frontline communications link between Burns Harbor and the customer.
Electronic interface balances customer JIT needs with steel production
A unique 10-year partnership between Bethlehem and Electronic Data Systems keeps Burns Harbor on the cutting edge of electronic interface with the customer.
Burns Harbor uses JMICS (Joint Material Information Control System) to balance customer-forecasted requirements with steel production orders to achieve total reliability in delivering the right product, in the right amount, to the right place, at the right time.
Total Reliability
- Right product
- Right amount
- Right place
- Right time
"Automotive is our core business at Burns Harbor, and we're here to support you in every possible way ... to help you maintain a competitive edge and get maximum value from our steel."
Jim DiGiacinto General Manager, Automotive Sales
Serving Our Customers
We recognize that our customers have choices of materials and steel suppliers. We will be their first choice only by routinely and reliably providing what they need, when they need it and at fair and competitive prices.
Our success depends on their success. Our greatest opportunities will be realized through relationships built on mutual trust, cooperation and understanding of each other's product and business requirements.
