Casting Parts

Casting Part is a subtractive manufacturing process, meaning machined products are formed by removing material. Whether the machining facility uses turning, milling, boring, drilling or any other process, machining always results in scrap material. When done right, machining is a finishing process that finalizes critical surfaces, creates threaded holes through tapping or otherwise finishes a part without excessive scrap.

There are a number of ways Casting Part can reduce part costs. Another way is a reduction in the number of overall processes: fully machined parts may require three, four or more separate machining processes, while a well designed casting can be near net shape. Third, casting processes are often designed to produce multiple parts at one time. Especially in investment casting, where several parts are placed along a sprue to form a tree, multiple parts are nearly always poured at once.

Casting Part does require some setup, including alloy selection, tooling, prototype production and testing, but once the details are hashed out parts can be rapidly produced with little or no downtime between runs. A well trained metalcasting team can continually produce castings, whether the process is shell molding or investment casting. Often, as mentioned above, multiple parts come out of a single mold.

Casting Part require manual inputs from expert operators.Casting Part requires operators to create molds, to pour alloys and to cut cast parts away from the sprue. The time savings in casting often comes from the ability to produce multiple parts from a single mold.