Mechanical and Electronic Components for Consumer Products

Whether new component or cost-savings initiatives, AFT can develop parts and materials to meet the demanding world of commodity driven components.

AFT is a major supplier of precision components and devices for all of the most demanding industries. The combination of excellent material properties, repeatable dimensional capabilities and our experience with rigorous qualification and validation expectations makes AFT the premier choice in MIM consumer components.

AFT is ISO13485 (Medical), TS16949 (Automotive), ISO:9008 | AS9100 (Aerospace) certified, and maintains an expanding list of approved suppliers for outside processing. We have expertise using the most common alloys and additionally, can develop custom alloys specific to your needs. Our team of engineers work hand-in-hand with the materials and design engineers of our customers to develop MIM friendly designs that fulfill component requirements while reducing cost and improving part quality.

AFT currently works with global leaders in all manufacturing industries on cost savings projects that reduce part count, improve mechanical properties and reduce the overall cost of high consumption items. For a complete list of MIM Materials and properties see the MIM Materials Properties data sheet.

Prospects for MIM Powder Injection Molding Process

Compared with conventional technology, MIM powder injection molding process has high accuracy, homogeneous, high performance, and low production cost, which are widely used in electronic information engineering, bio-medical equipment, office equipment, vehicles, machinery, hardware, sports equipment, watches and clocks, weapons and aerospace industries.

Therefore, it is generally believe in worldwide that the development of this technology will lead to a revolution in parts forming and machining technology. It is known as "the hottest parts forming technology" and "21st Century forming technology."

At present, Chinese consumption of iron powder and copper powder have surpassed Japan, ranking first in Asia. In the future, major application  of powder metallurgy parts is still automotive field. In the technical point of view, high-density powder metallurgy parts, new powder metallurgy materials, high efficient and precise equipment etc are the future development trends of powder metallurgy industry.

Future development of MIM Powder Injection (http://www.zcmim.com/) mainly in materials and design. To take advantage of the technology to help customers improve product design and reduce costs, thereby expanding powder injection molding applications.

Process and production of powder metallurgy gear

Powder injection molding manufacturer ZCMIM (http://www.sky-mim.com/about-us.html) gives you a brief description about basic producing processes of powder metallurgy. The first is the preparation of raw material powder, the current powder metallurgical milling methods are mainly mechanical method and physical-chemical method.

Wherein physical-chemical method, it can be divided into reduction method, compound method and electrolysis method. Using powder to form desired shape , the main purpose is made a certain shape and size. And it has a certain density and strength. Molding methods can basically be divided into non-pressure molding and compression forming.

Sintered is the most critical process in powder metallurgy technology. Molding blanks can obtain the final desired mechanical properties after sintering. Sintering temperature should be slightly lower than the melting point of metals and alloys. Sintering some alloys, wherein the control temperature is lower than the melting point of its refractory component, but above the melting point of fusible components. The final step is forming. By machining to process gears as desired.

The strength of MIM gears

How much you know about the strength of MIM metallurgy gears,? Different types of gears, also have different accuracy and density. Let's go with ZCMIM metal parts manufacturers to discover the mystery of MIM gears!

1, Normal FN0205 MIM gears (density 6.8 to 7.0) may carry torque (stops up transfers ) can reach 14NM, temperature and pressure parts can reach 20NM, if can reach 25.If the full set of gears used in MIM and the design allowed to change, the mild can improve 30-40%;

2. The accuracy of gears depends on the material expansion coefficient and mold accuracy. The mould of gears which diameter less than 50mm is level 8-9, imported mould is level 7-8, the helical gear will high a level. The biggest advantage of MIM gears is gears can volume production and the consistency is very good.

3. If using MIM rough machining, the intensity of gears will be 10% higher.

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Advantage of MIM Powder Injection

Along with progress of MIM, MIM powder injection （http://www.sky-mim.com/）cost advantage will be more prominent accompanied by increased cost competition in automotive industry. So that in certain complex structural parts, such as connecting rods, camshafts, bearing caps, tooth components, closed chamber parts, components and other complex structures within the cavity, MIM powder injection substitutes for other industries.

Advantages of MIM powder injection mainly conclude as following aspects:

1. Directly forming complex geometry parts (size usually 0.1 ~ 100g);

2. Precision can up to 0.5% +/- 0.1% as spare parts, smooth surface, one-time up to Ra3.2;

3. Good interior compactness, high-density, up to 95% to 99%;

4. Uniform internal organization, no composition segregation for alloy.

5. High efficient production , substantial reduce cost for high-volume production.

6. Wide scope of materials, including refractory material, and difficult to cast material and difficult to process material.

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Compared with the traditional process, Metal injection molding (MIM process) have characteristics of high precision and steady quality. Its products are widely used in electronic , information engineering, medical equipment, office equipment, automobile, machinery, hardware, watch industry, weapons and aerospace industry, etc.

Metal injection molding (MIM process) use thinner metal powder, can help to improve extend the fatigue life of materials. The current global scale of metal injection molding (MIM) industrial is still small, but grow in steadily. In Europe, its main application fields are cars. In North America, mainly in the medical field, Asia is mainly in the communication products.

The future development of metal injection molding (MIM) is mainly in terms of materials and design efforts. ZCMIM use of the advantages of the MIM process, provide the one-step for MIM products designing, production, surface treatment , to help customers improve product design and reduce the cost.