A customer of ours, in the early 1990’s, contacted Kinetic Die Casting Company, to send us their die casting tooling so we could produce an aluminum die casting enclosure housing for them. This company, Monitor Dynamics Incorporated (MDI), produced a …
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Metal Investment Castings
Kinetic Die Casting Company will compare the manufacturing processes of Metal Investment Castings with Metal Die Castings.
These are the details regarding Investment castings:
- Creating a master blue print or mold template to produce a disposable investment casting mold, for a one time casting use.
- Pouring molten metal into the throwaway disposable mold.
- Letting the metal parts cool inside the disposable mold before taking out the casting or metal part, this takes time.
- A disposable or throwaway mold lasts for only one part.
- Production cycle time and labor cost are the greatest roadblocks to using investment casting.
- Normally only a hand full of parts can be made per day.
Kinetic Die Casting Company produces Metal Die Castings. These metal parts are made from aluminum metal alloy or zinc metal alloy. Here are the details regarding die castings:
- Making a die casting mold or die casting die or a steel mold that creates the metal die casting parts.
- Under high pressure, injecting the aluminum or zinc metal alloy into the die or mold to fabricate the metal parts.
- Being more durable, the Kinetic Die Casting Company die casting molds withstand production of over 100,000 parts before dies or molds replacement is considered.
- The die casting parts are made at the rate of one metal part every minute.
- Thousands or several thousands of metal alloy die casting parts can be produced in one day or week.
There are many excellent examples of Kinetic Die Casting Company using die casting metal parts. Did you know that the United States leads the world in fabricating aircraft and associated military systems? Military aircraft and equipment create the backbone for both our national defense and projection of authority. These military air craft and machines are essential to air dominance, strike, early warning, command and control, ground attack and sea control. Many of these products are produced using the Kinetic Die Casting Company manufacturing process.
Contact Kinetic Die Casting Company for a price quote for metal parts using the die casting manufacturing process at 800-524-8083.