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Light weighting has been one of major driver in automotive industry for few decades. Today when automobile industry is in the transition from internal combustion engine to electric vehicles it becomes even more dominant driver. Many high strength or advanced high strength steels are used in different parts of automotive body for down-gauging and light weighting. BH 220 steel is used in automotive skin panels for its bake hardening property. BH220 provides excellent combination of formability during stamping process and dent resistance in skin panel parts post painting and baking cycle. This material uses CED oven temperature for baking and provide bake hardening effect (BH effect/BH Index) in parts due to increase in yield strength by 35-70 MPa. Current national and international standards specify requirement on BH Index at 170°C for 20 minutes with 2% pre-strain.