The Benefits of Investment Casting

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The Benefits of Investment Casting
The investment casting process is a superior
casting method for complex shapes or finely
detailed castings, giving designers the
flexibility to make superior products.
Investment casting can save money by
eliminating costly and time-consuming machin
ing operations and reducing product mass through
better design. A good surface finish is
achievable with investment casting and can be
suited to match its requirements. Investment
Casting has many benefits, all of which ensuring
that your finished components meet all of your
requirements. Some specific benefits are

• Design flexibility and capability
• One of the key benefits of investment castings is
  freedom of design. Infinite choice of alloys and
  design flexibility of internal and external
  configurations is seen as a plus.
• Reliability
• The investment casting process provides reliable
  process controls and repeatability that is
  maintained from casting to casting.
• Low tooling costs
• Initial tooling costs averaged over the parts
  produced are often less than other manufacturing
  tooling costs.
• Design Casting Versatility
• Investment castings provide the maximum design
  flexibility for manufacturing complex, multi
  part products in many cases.
• Quantity Control
• The Investment Casting process can be utilized to
  produce components in smaller runs as well as in
  batches with quantities in the thousands.

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• Surface Finish
• Excellent surface finish 3.2-6.3 Ra
• Tolerances
• It is able to deliver close dimensional
  tolerances.
• Choice Of Material
• Investment Castings can be produced from a wide
  range of materials, covering most properties to
  satisfy your requirements.
• Reduced secondary machining
• Secondary machining operations are one of the
  most costly components of manufacturing.
  Converting to investment casting reduces or
  eliminates machining, as parts can be cast as-is
  with near-net shape, intricate geometries.
  Multiple parts that required significant
  machining to create a single assembly can be cast
  into stronger, more cost effective investment
  castings.
• Intricate Design
• When using investment castings, design engineers
  can easily incorporate features such as logos,
  product ID's/numbers, and letters into their
  component. Thru holes, slots, blind holes,
  external and internal splines, gears, and thread
  profiles can often be cast to reduce secondary
  machining time and total part cost.
• ACAST Iron, Stainless Steel Casting Foundry
  engineers ready to help you decide how to best
  cast your product. A Please call us _at_ 02 8006
  5346 or Visit Website http//www.acast.com.au

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