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What is a steel blank?
Blank: A pre-cut sheet metal shape ready for a stamping press operation.
A steel blank is a flat piece of steel that is trimmed to the size required to put the blank into a stamping press to make a part like a door panel or pillar. Just thick of cookie dough rolled flat, that would be your steel blank. The cookie cutter would trim your steel into your blank size. The image below displays flat steel blanks that will be put into a stamping press to form the parts.
Still having a little trouble understanding what a tailored blank is? Take a look at the image below. The body side inner is divided into 6 pieces; ignore the areas filled in red, not steel there. Notice the different material thicknesses called out? A tailored blank is all these different blanks of steel laser welded together into a single piece of flat steel that than stamped into a part. 
