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Lightweight Spa cefr a mes Danas knowledge of spaceframes has led to a revolution in body manufacturing technology. Dana incorporates proprietary processes to create complex skeletal systems that set new performance standards for weight and strength. Employing a mix of forming and joining technologies, Dana is able to arrive at the lowest unit cost solution per given architecture. The result: A benchmark in design exibility, overall vehicle performance, and cost efficiency.

E m e r g i n g Te c h n o l o g i e s Danas expertise with a range of advanced joining and forming technologies allows continued development of multi-material vehicle structures. Extensive research and benchmarking studies, as well as the use of processes such as hydroforming, laser welding, and other revolutionary techniques, ensure that Dana continues to generate solutions to improve overall vehicle performance while remaining cost effective.

Danas expertise in automotive structures and knowledge of advanced alternative materials add to vehicle performance by reducing weight while simultaneously improving structural integrity. Consequently, Dana engineers develop products that improve fuel economy, minimize NVH, and enhance safety performance. Products include full-perimeter frames, cradles and sub-frames, side rails, body structures, and twist-beam axles.

Cr a dles Fuel economy, durability, safety, and component complexity are among the rst considerations when designing a new vehicle. Dana engineers use leading-edge materials and processes to create cradles and sub-frames with reduced weight, fewer components, and lower tooling costs. Dana cradles are manufactured with a variety of high-strength steels and aluminum. Process technologies such as stamping and hydroforming, metal inert gas (MIG), and laser beam welding enhance stiffness, durability, and vehicle crash and dimensional stability.

LASER WELDING Danas unyielding commitment toward advancing technology has allowed its engineers to achieve an industry breakthrough in the application of laser welding. Danas laser welding process is capable of joining material thicknesses nearly double that of the industry average.

TWIST-BEAM AXLES Danas twist-beam axles are a cost-effective solution for rear suspension requirements. Today, they are found in several small and mid-size passenger cars in North America. Danas capabilities include the modular assembly and delivery of rear twist-beam axles including brakes, rubber bushings, springs, and shock absorbers.

SPACEFRAMES Danas all-aluminum spaceframe illustrates an expertise in robust manufacturing. Using laser welding, ve-axis exible machining, and self-piercing rivets, Dana joins materials at greater thicknesses than past industry practices to provide a lightweight spaceframe with enhanced strength.

MAGNETIC-PULSE WELDING This technology can be used to join aluminum and steel on a molecular level in drivetrain manufacturing. Dana engineers also realize the potential benets in body applications and are exploring ways of adapting it to specic structural products.

About Dana Corporation

The people of Dana Corporation design and manufacture products for virtually every major vehicle and engine producer in the world. Dana is focused on being an essential partner to automotive, commercial, and off-highway vehicle customers, which collectively produce more than 60 million vehicles every year. A leading supplier of engine, drivetrain, chassis, and structural technologies, Dana employs 46,000 people in 28 countries. The company is based in Toledo, Ohio. Danas Internet address is www.dana.com.

Structural Products

Ful l -Pe r i me te r F r a me s The importance of weight, strength, and durability, as well as a clear awareness of crash management requirements, is the foundation upon which worldclass frames are developed. Weight reduction directly translates into improved fuel economy, strength improves safety performance, and durability ensures product robustness and extended product life. Dana employs the most efficient and advanced manufacturing technologies to ensure that the frames it develops are of the highest quality while remaining cost-effective.
ROBOCLAMP HYDROFORMING TECHNOLOGY Danas proprietary Roboclamp technology allows Dana to produce long hydroformed parts in either steel or aluminum with reduced cycle time equivalent to that of four-post presses. Other direct benets of Danas technology include reduced part blow or distortion and the ability to manufacture two or more parts simultaneously to achieve further reductions in cycle time and tooling investment.

What Can Dana Do For You?

Dana Corporation provides high-quality automotive product solutions in four core areas of the vehicle engine, drivetrain, chassis, and structural systems. This lineup of technologies from one source is designed to offer total exibility to vehicle manufacturers around the world whether in automotive centers or emerging markets and ensures that customers have access to the latest state-of-the-art technologies, as well as products adjusted for specic local markets. With 45 technology centers strategically located throughout the world, Dana engineers have the superior resources to develop, design, test, and manufacture to suit your individual needs. This close collaboration with customers allows Dana to create everything from advanced single components to fully integrated modular systems.

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STEEL FRAMES Dana applies unique forming, joining, and coating techniques in the manufacturing of steel frames. The results are increased corrosion protection, resistance to high underbody temperatures, improved crash performance, and enhanced NVH characteristics all while reducing the overall vehicle weight.

MULTI-MATERIAL FRAMES The combination of steel and aluminum, which can be achieved with sophisticated joining and forming procedures such as hydroforming and magnetic-pulse welding, greatly assists in reducing weight while also delivering enhanced durability, greater strength, and improved safety and performance characteristics.

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