РМ parts and components can be manufactured at different speeds and in different quantities, from hundreds to thousands of components per hour. Some key elements and stages we consider of great importance when manufacturing with our powder metallurgy and sintering technologies are:
Parts resizing
Powder composition
Production rate
Tool wear
Sintering
Heat treatment
Furthermore, we also control secondary operations, such as sintered parts calibration and machining.
Before, during, and after production of the components we carry out our strict quality control systems, which includes the monitoring of:
Radial dimensions (perpendicular to the press axis), which are controlled by a tool (tooling). We count with modern presses with computer numerical control (CNC) systems, that guarantee an excellent control over dimensional accuracy, pressing speed and mold It allows us to ensure size constancy (repeatability), regardless of the volume and rate of production.
The automatic correction of powder composition, which goes into a press mold, guarantees a fully identical weight of the parts, at constant pressing density. Moreover, all powder composition parameters, necessary to manufacture powder metallurgy parts, are set before batch production is launched.
In order to provide all these advantages and possibilities, we in Eurobalt Engineering manufacture our own molds and calibration tools, we store them and plan the production of new additional tooling beforehand. We do all this at our own expense.