There are many advantages to investment casting which will lead to better design and a lower cost product.
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The investment casting process offers many benefits including cost savings, design and material freedom, close tolerances, better finishes, savings in machining time, reproducibility, and overall they just look better! Read about the 10 advantages of investment casting.
1. Superior Surface Finish
The investment casting process provides far superior surface finish as compared to forgings and sand castings. This can be important at times to avoid machining or other finishing operations.
2. Variety of Materials
Investment cast parts can be cast in a range of alloys including stainless steel, brass, bronze, cobalt, nickel and custom alloys. Franklin Precision Castings casts alloys for many applications in a broad range of industries.
3. Closer to Finished Part Designs
Investment castings provide near net shapes for manufactured parts, thus eliminating or reducing machining costs. An added benefit of near net shape is the savings on material, especially with more expensive alloys like nickel and cobalt alloys.
4. Intricate Design
Holes, undercuts, slots and other difficult detail that cannot be had with other processes can often be provided through investment casting thus reducing the amount of machining. Logos, numbers or names can be incorporated on parts as markings.
5. Difficult Thin Wall Castings
The investment casting process is capable of more reliable castings with much thinner walls than sand castings. Advantages include substantially less scrap rates and castings that weigh less due to the thinner wall capability.
6. Tight Tolerances
Due to the nature of the process, investment castings can be held to much tighter tolerances than sand castings or forgings. Tolerances down to + 0.1mm can be achieved resulting in a highly accurate cast part.
7. Competitive Tooling Costs
With Franklin Precision Castingss own in-house tool manufacturing, initial charges for the investment casting tooling are often less expensive than those for die castings and forgings.
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8. Minimal Casting Defects
Being a cleaner process than sand moulds, investment castings in general, provide a much higher percentage of defect free-castings.
9. Rapid Prototyping for New Product Development
Rapid prototyping can get products to market faster. Franklin Precision Castings uses 3-D Wax Modeling for efficiency and speed in design and production. Using 3-D Modeling, Franklin Precision Castings can move faster from the development phase to the production phase. 3-D Modeling can be especially beneficial for those with requiring quick, small order prototyping as there is no need for wax model tooling. This speed to market helps customers compete in the marketplace.
10. Andthey just look better!
Whether or not appearance is critical, investment castings have the appearance of high quality. Minimal to no discernible parting lines are the norm. Also, most outside surfaces do not require draft.
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Precision investment castings are a great way to take your products from being concepts on paper into reality, helping you grow your business and achieve effective results. There are many different advantages to using an experienced investment casting company that can work with you to create a product and design that works for your business.
One of the biggest advantages to investment casting is that it offers a faster production time than other methods, because the amount of machining that is needed after casting is cut down. At Intercast, with our casting foundry in Mexico, we are able to reduce lead times to more quickly create production runs that give you more immediate feedback. This rapid response and prototyping allows us to cut costs as well as time for our customers.
Another major advantage of investment casting is that it offers more affordable costs in getting the product from idea to creation. This is especially true at Intercast, where we operate as a maquiladora, which allows us to offer lower prices than our competitors while maintaining a very high quality. Additionally, the less expensive, less dangerous equipment that is used to create investment casts allows for greater cost savings.
Investment casts offer the benefit of being able to use a wide variety of materials in creating casts. Whether its bronze, stainless steel, aluminum, or anything in between, investment casts allow for greater material flexibility. Along with this is more flexibility in design, including the creation of casts of very complex parts or intricate designs.
This includes being able to design almost any configuration or shape, giving you ultimate design creativity. Casting can also be created along a wide range of sizes, allowing you to design casts that are very small or very large. Our foundry has the ability to produce low, medium, and high volume production runs, with rapid prototyping with our 3D printing system.
Another benefit of investment casting is that it is used across a wide variety of industries, giving experienced companies the capacity and knowledge to work with almost any type of business. For everything from aerospace castings to oil & gas casting, we have seen and done almost everything. Our leadership team has over 125 years of combined experience, which allows us to partner with you to create the right product that will help your business.
Investment casting is a way to design components for your business in a more cost-effective manner, producing casts that range from simple to incredibly complex, all within a reasonable timeframe. In a fast-paced business world, this allows you to gain competitive advantages over your competition, giving you the parts you need.
If you are interested in partnering with us, please contact us today to request a quote for your project. Our main focus is on benefiting our customers and working with you for the long haul. Let us help design and create your next project, and discover the many advantages that investment casting can provide for your business.