Comparison of Investment Casting With Other Casting Methods

From simple to complex shapes, investment casting companies provide you with the ideal solution to your mechanical component requirements. Here, is a comparison of investment casting with other casting methods:

Vs. Sand Casting

Investment casting when compared with sand casting, lost wax casting offers more tightly dimensional resistances, better surface completions creates close net shape parts which in this manner require less machining and another handling, and takes into account the throwing of complex-geometry parts and many-sided subtle elements, for example, lettering and logos.

Vs. Machining

Precision investment casting offers lower per piece costs for longer production runs, essentially less material waste in this way reducing material expenses, and the capacity to work with a bigger choice of compounds. Also, machining offers no economy of scale with volume-ten thousand sections cost as much per piece as ten sections.  

Vs. Metal Fabrication

Investment casting can be much more precise and accurate than metal fabrication, is less work concentrated, frequently offers generous weight reserve funds, costs less, and gives more material decisions, more prominent plan adaptability, shorter lead times, and faster prototyping. Moreover, while utilizing metal fabrication may expect parts to be developed from different individual pieces, precision investment casting takes into consideration a similar part to be made in one constant piece.

Vs. Forging

Compared with manufacturing, precision investment casting offers more tightly resistances and lower tooling costs and gives close net shape parts which require less machining and extra preparing. With investment casting, it is likewise conceivable to deliver cored geometries, which fashioning can't offer. 

Vs. Die Casting

Lost wax casting offers far shorter lead times, more prominent alloy flexibility including ferrous materials which can't kick the die-cast, more prominent outline adaptability, better piece to piece consistency, and produces parts nearer to a net shape which hence requires less machining. Tooling for lost wax casting is additionally drastically more affordable than bite the die cast tooling.

The investment casting companies’ skilled engineers can work with you in the selection of alloys, tool creation, prototyping and manufacturing planning. Alloys include austenitic stainless - CF8 (304), CF3 (304L), CF8M (316), CF3M (316L), Monel®, cupro-nickel, Hastelloy®, Duplex Grade, and other nickel base alloys. To provide the best quality, performs chemical analysis, mechanical strength tests, Charpy tests, Brinell hardness test, NDT X-Ray and pressure testing. Material certification from 3rd party labs is often