Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Theodore John Coon

Zhiyong Cedric Xia

Saravanan Subramanian

Raja Shekar Sohmshetty

Dietmar Rotheut

Melissa Marie Brutto

Jason Carter

Gerald Kuehn

David J Lawrence

A method for welding a weld-on element onto a component is proposed, comprising at least the step that, before the welding process, at least one of the parts being connected is wetted with a wetting agent over the full area and uniformly in layer thickness in a welding region.

Method for welding a weld-on element onto a counterpart

In one or more embodiments, a weldability of a stack-up for use in vehicle part production may be determined. The determination may include receiving general stack-up information, welding standards data for forming a stack-up, and one or more inputs defining one or more stack-up design variables. Additionally, standardized stack-up information may be generated based on the general stack-up information, the one or more design variables, and the welding standards data. Furthermore, historical welding data may be received for predicting a weldability of the stack-up. Predictive logic may be applied to the standardized stack-up information based on the historical welding data to obtain one or more weldability predictions for the stack-up. The one or more weldability predictions may be transmitted for use in vehicle part production.

Weldability prediction and recommendation systems and methods

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