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Hot Stamping, or Press Hardening, is a metalworking process commonly used in the automotive industry. In hot stamping the sheet metal steel is heated over ~950°C and then rapidly cooled to get high strength components.

Characteristics
Metal forming tends to have more uniform characteristics across its subprocesses than its contemporary processes, cutting and joining.

On the industrial scale, forming is characterized by:
 * Very high required loads and stresses, between 50 and 2500 N/mm2 (7-360 ksi)
 * Large, heavy, and expensive machinery in order to accommodate such high stresses and loads
 * Production runs with many parts, to maximize the economy of production and compensate for the expense of the machine tools