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More mettle for sheet metal
. With plastic/metal hybrid technology multiple steel stampings join together during molding in a process called in-mold assembly. This lets steel go only where needed. Stampings join together by specially designed "button" connections that transfer the loading from one steel stamping directly
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Better Than Metal
Designers of pneumatics and low-pressure hydraulics often grapple with the dual challenges of reducing friction and weight. For traditional metal cylinders and bushings, these properties can limit design and performance options. Better than metal | Machine Design. Skip to Content. Home. Subscribe
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Better than metal
matrix allowing end caps to be held in place using fiber circumferential contraction forces. Designers of pneumatics and low-pressure hydraulics often grapple with the dual challenges of reducing friction and weight. For traditional metal cylinders and bushings, these properties can limit design
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More metal parts go to composites
for components that serve in caustic environments at elevated temperatures under load -- conditions typical of semiconductor-processing applications where designers are often limited to specifying metal and ceramic. In the semiconductor industry, however, trends such as larger wafers, more caustic etching
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Die Protection for Metal Stamping Operations (.pdf)
In most industries, the need to improve the efficiency of processes is an imperative part of product manufacturing. This is becoming increasingly important in metal stamping facilities throughout the world, as competition necessitates that products be produced at a much faster rate and at a greater
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Superlative parts crowned at powder-metal competition
in a Magna Powertrain NPG 226 transfer case took the Ferrous award of distinction. Keystone Powdered Metal Co., St. Marys, Pa., forms the 2-lb part via warm compaction to a density of 7.2 gm/cm 3 . Magna Powertrain USA Inc. (formerly Magna Drivetrain of America Inc.), East Syracuse, N.Y.
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Case Study - IR Processing of Metal Coatings
Consumers of coated metal, wood, paper, glass, plastic and textile products are demanding attractive, long-lasting, wear-resistant surfaces. At the same time, stricter safety and environmental standards are forcing manufacturers to look at new types of finishes, e.g., water- based and powder
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Powder-metal parts earn top honors
In the Metal Powder Industries Federation's annual Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence competition, an end cover for a dipole cryomagnet used in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took top honors in the Other category for atypical PM components. The end cover for a dipole cryomagnet is used