2012 Lightweighting Special: Sona Group banks on R&D

The design developed in-house, in collaboration with Tata, met both its strength and performance requirements.

31 May 2012 | 3067 Views | By Autocar Pro News Desk

The Sona Group’s tryst with lightweighting kicked off with Tata Motors’ Nano. The Gurgaon-based component maker that manufactures steering systems used hollow steel tubes instead of solid ones in the manual steering columns and steering gears and tapped finite element analysis (FEA) and computer-aided simulation techniques at the design stage ...

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