If your business needs precisely cast and machined parts, working with a full-service foundry and machine shop can lead to better communication, efficiency and effectiveness vs. using a separate foundry and machine shop.
Categories: Aluminum Casting, Machining
What are some design factors that can help you reduce the cost of your casting project? We have two recommendations that can safely help you reduce the cost of your casting project.
Categories: Aluminum Casting, Machining
Aluminum is an excellent choice for machining because it is easy to shape. It’s a better choice for many projects because it is more machinable than other metals like steel. Because aluminum is readily available, and easy on equipment as well as cost-effective manufacturers choose aluminum for machining projects. But how do you know what aluminum alloy is the one for your specific project or application?
Categories: Machining
At its core, CNC machining is used to create parts and components for almost every industry and application. But still, what exactly is CNC manufacturing, and why is it so important in today's technological society?
Categories: Machining
This article briefly summarizes the essentials of the tool and die machinist. If you want to know the basics, click here to learn more.
Categories: Machining, Tool & Die
The die casting process produces items that we use on a daily basis. This specific manufacturing process helps all types of industries. Die castings are among the most mass-produced items in manufacturing today.
Categories: Aluminum Casting, Machining
Since the dog days of the early 1900's, when Henry Ford was ram-rodding the idea of an "assembly line", while his customers were asking him for "faster horses", OEM's (Original equipment manufacturers) have sought out Machine Shops as their primary source for castings. It made sense, the machine shop was the last stop in the line, so from a material flow standpoint, the OEM buys from the machine shop, and the machine shop sources the castings to a foundry.
Categories: Aluminum Casting, Machining, Permanent Mold Casting
Product design tailored to the CNC machining process is one of the easiest ways to lower production costs, yet it is often treated as a cursory consideration during the design process — not the major cost (and time) saving factor that it can be. To be clear, in the early stages of design, unfettered brainstorming and concepting is fine (and even preferable). Though as you fine-tune the product and approach the stage of generating technical drawings to be used for production, it can be extraordinarily helpful to begin incorporating best practices and standards for the CNC machining process.
Categories: Machining