Manufacturing

Manufacturing

1. Casting Processes

   • Pattern mold
     • Die casting
       • Aluminium alloys
         • Automotive pistons
   • Expendable mold, permanent pattern
     • Sand casting
       • Copper alloys
         • Connecting rods
   • Expendable pattern and mold and other
     • Lost-foam casting
       • Aluminium alloys
         • Cylinder heads

2. Bulk-deformation processes

   • Rolling
     • Flat rolling
       • Steel
         • Head plates (boilers and heat exchangers)
   • Forging
     • Open-die forging
       • Aluminum
         • Ring forging
   • Extrusion and drawing
     • Direct extrusion
       • Copper - copper alloys
         • Tubing

3. Sheet-metal-forming processes

   • Shearing
     • Blanking
       • Steel
         • Holes in sheets
   • Bending and drawing
     • Bending
       • Steels
         • Brackets
   • Forming
     • Hydroforming
       • Copper
         • Plumbing industries

4. Polymer.processing processes

   • Thermoplastics
     • Injection molding
       • Polymers
         • Housing, containers, covers, knobs, etc.
   • Thermosets
   • Rapid prototyping
     • Fused-deposition model
       • Proprietary nylon
         • Making prototypes and models quickly from CAD systems

5. Machining and finishing processes

   • Machining
     • Milling
       • All polymers and most metals
         • Cases, boxes, shells, etc.
   • Advanced maching
     • Wire EDM
       • Conductive metals (i.e. Aluminium)
         • Tool fixtures
   • Finishing
     • Surface grinding
       • Glass
         • Lenses and mirrors

6. Joining processes

   • Fusion welding
     • Shielded metal-arc welding
       • Stainless steels
         • Structural steel work
     • Gas-metal arc welding
       • Aluminium
         • Automobile parts
     • Gas-tungsten arc welding
       • Titanium
         • Aerospace parts