The continued globalization of the automotive industry, market saturation and escalating legislative requirements are placing demands on European automotive manufacturers. In response, manufacturers and their supply chains are striving to reduce cost and weight and to extend product lifecycle times while enhancing quality to maintain competitiveness with North America and the Far East, to meet legislation and to increase penetration into new markets. In response to this there has been an increasing emphasis on the three-dimensional nature of surfaces and the relationship to pressing performance. This is reflected in the fact that the European Union is sponsoring two major projects in the area of three-dimensional surface metrology. The object of this paper is to review the literature published to date in the area of automotive pressing performance and to draw general conclusions, which will set directions for future research.
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