In the world of manufacturing and engineering, aluminum cast parts play a crucial role in creating a wide range of products. From automotive components to aerospace parts, aluminum castings are highly valued for their versatility, durability, and cost-effectiveness. In this …
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Metal Die Cast in the Cold Chamber
Metal Die Cast in the Cold Chamber. In the field of metallurgy, the cold chamber method is known as one of the two chief types of die casting processes. The other one is called the hot chamber method. If you noticed sculpted metal parts with a high melting point, they are in all probability fashioned by a cold chamber machine. Cold chamber die castings could be created out of aluminum, magnesium die casting, and copper.
These cold chamber die castings go through outside furnaces. The metals are then poured into a cold chamber in the machine. The cylinder and plunger are not submerged in liquefied metal as is the method with low melting point metal alloys in a hot chamber method. These enormous machines use hydraulic power to force the poured metal into the die mold. It is a slower procedure but the machines utilized for cold chamber die castings usually last longer. This and its capability to manufacture metals with a high melting point into exactitude parts make it helpful for machinists, metallurgists, metalworkers, engineers, and manufacturers of our modern gadgets like aluminum die cast boxes that are utilized in electrical outlets and other such electrical fixtures.
Die casting is only one of the procedures utilized to shape metal to our wants. There is also forging, rolling, sintering, machining, fabrication, metalworking, and numerous other different casting procedures. Then there are the practices of fusing one metal to another which are soldering, welding, and brazing. There are also other procedures such as annealing, tempering, quenching, plating, thermal spraying, and case hardening. All these metalworking methods have given to the development of our world as we know it today.
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Die Casting Part Prices
Kinetic Die Casting Company discusses how Die Casting Part Prices are determined. A die casting company is sometimes also known as a Job Shop Manufacturer. In other words, the die casting company provides metal products to other manufacturing companies. These other manufacturing companies, sometimes are OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers). These die casting metal products, die castings, are used in the product produced by the OEM customer, who is always a manufacturing company.
Die casting part prices or diecastings prices are determined using only a few factors.
- Utilities Costs (Water, Gas and Electric)
- Overhead and Fixed Costs
- The Cost of Labor Rates
- The Number of Labor Hours
- Setup Costs for equipment and die casting molds
- Die Casting Metal Amounts
- Die Casting Metal Cost Each Pound
- Value Added Processes.
All of these variables listed to manufacture die casting parts. Typically die castings cost less than $1.00 to $5.00 each die casting part.
- Utilities Costs – Are used to melt the die casting metal for two or four hours prior to die casting production. The high pressure die casting machines use a lot of electricity to operate the high pressure pumps.
- Overhead and Fixed Costs – These are costs that are frequently overlooked, such as Rent, Insurance, Medical Benefits and Salaries for Management and Owners.
- The Cost of Labor Rates – There are typically many different labor rates depending on the job an employee does or the work experience and time in service.
- The Number of Labor Hours – Labor hours are the hours the die casting machine made parts but sometimes may include hours in inspection, packaging and processing.
- Setup Costs for equipment and die casting molds – There are hours of setup required before a die casting machine can make parts. It takes a few hours to put a die into the die casting machine, it takes a few hours to mount inserts into a mold base, it takes a few hours to melt a bath of metal before production begins.
- Die Casting Metal Amounts – How much die casting metal does each part need? How much was used to produce the part? How much needs to be removed in the clean up process? How much metal was lost and how much can be recovered?
- Die Casting Metal Cost Each Pound – Various die casting metal alloys have a different cost each pound. Some alloys are common and cost less than the more uncommon alloys. If an alloy is used for only one job, there is sometimes a minimum metal lot cost for the bath.
- Value added processes also sometimes known as Outside Process costs – The processes that are required to change the casting from the raw state to a completed part that our customer wants has a cost. Machining costs and coating costs are the more typical value added costs.
These costs are spread through out the production run of hundreds or thousands of diecast parts. When our customer needs only a few parts, they will need to pay a higher cost each die casting part to cover some of the variable and minimum costs.
Another Web Page with Die Casting Part Cost Information:
https://www.kineticdiecasting.com/kdc/optimal-die-casting-production-part-quantity/
Die Casting Part Prices
Contact Kinetic Die Casting Company to get a die casting part cost or die casting part prices:
Kinetic Die Casting Company
6918 Beck Avenue
North Hollywood, California USA
818-982-9200
sales@kineticdc.com
Aluminum Sand Casting Parts May Be Better
Aluminum Sand Casting Parts May Be Better. Several Requests For Quotes (RFQs) for aluminum part prices come to Kinetic Die Casting and it is obvious that the requester does not understand the difference between aluminum sand casting parts and aluminum die casting parts. Today, we will discuss the pricing difference between sand casting and die casting of aluminum parts.
2,000 Aluminum Parts Casting Decision
If your product is limited to less than 2,000 aluminum parts in the entire product life cycle or stated differently you will want less than 2,000 aluminum parts in your product life cycle and never need more parts, sometimes a part produced by the aluminum sand casting is a better choice for you.
Here are my aluminum part price calculations:
Aluminum Sand Casting Parts:
Typical Tooling Cost: $500 – $2500
Typical Part Cost: $13 – $15 each (machined)
So using $500 tooling price (lowest typical) and $13 for part price:
Cost for 500 parts: $ 7,500
Cost for 1000 parts: $13,500
Cost for 2000 parts: $26,500
Aluminum Die Casting Parts
Typical Tooling Cost: $10,000 – $12,000
Typical Part Cost: $2.50 – $3.50 each (machined)
So using $10,000 die casting tooling price (lowest typical) and $2.50 for part price.
Cost for 500 parts: $11,250 ($3,750 more expensive)
Cost for 1000 parts: $12,500 ($1,000 less expensive)
Cost for 2000 parts: $15,000 ($11,500 less expensive)
As you can see, the cost is equal or less for an aluminum part as a sand cast part, if you will buy less than 2,000 parts. If you feel your product life is more than 2,000 parts, you should consider buying aluminum die casting parts. If your product life is greater than 5,000 parts your savings are so significant it is embarrassing. Contact Kinetic Die Casting Company 800-2524-8083 (sales@kineticdc.com) if you feel you are paying to much for your aluminum castings.
