investment casting overview - signicast investment castings
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Signicast Investment Castings, celebrating over 50 years of growth by providing customers a quality product on time at a competitive price, is the investment casting industry leader. With quick lead times, on-time delivery, true just-in-time manufacturing, and unrivaled process control, Signicast has quickly become the top choice for OEM components in a large range of markets. In an industry where 12-week lead times are standard, Signicast has reduced that time to just 1 to 4 weeks. The result is true Just-In-Time manufacturing which eliminates costly inventory by allowing customers to receive small quantities of product, delivered frequently, according to their production schedule. Orders, even small ones, go from entry to shipping with no interruptions. Signicast operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and schedules remain on-time. Signicast offers the best total value option for Complete-to-Print components. Signicast provides secondary operations such as machining, heat treatment, assembly, painting, finishing and packaging. The result is a high quality, high value product that is ready to ship from Signicast docks in as few as 4.3 days from start to finish.Early supplier involvement allows Signicast’s in-house technical staff to provide concurrent engineering during the formative stage of product design. Signicast’s engineering team is dedicated to providing customers with a design that will result in the lowest overall cost with design for manufacturability. For more information or to request a quote, visit www.signicast.comTRANSCRIPT
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Investment Casting OverviewInvestment Casting Overview
Signicast Investment CastingsSignicast Investment Castings
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The Investment Casting Process
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Injection Molding ToolingInjection Molding Tooling
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Inject Inject PatternsPatterns
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Robotic Wax CellRobotic Wax Cell
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Pattern AssemblyPattern Assembly
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Cluster AssemblyCluster Assembly
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Shell BuildShell Build
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DipDip
RainfallRainfallSanderSander
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De-Wax and BurnoutDe-Wax and Burnout
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Melt & PourMelt & Pour
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Melt & Robotic Melt & Robotic PourPour
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PourPour
Pull Pull and and Hold Hold MolMold d
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Shell & Part RemovalShell & Part Removal
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Automated Finishing Cell- Gate Automated Finishing Cell- Gate Grind,Grind,
Sandblasting and InspectionSandblasting and Inspection
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Gate GrindGate Grind
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Machining and Machining and SecondarySecondary
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Painting- Powder Painting- Powder CoatingCoating
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Case Studies and ExamplesCase Studies and Examples
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ORIGINALLY PLASTIC ORIGINALLY PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDEDINJECTION MOLDED
PAINTED CASTING
• CF-8 STAINLESS STEELCF-8 STAINLESS STEEL
• STRONGER, MORE DURABLE, AND CORROSION STRONGER, MORE DURABLE, AND CORROSION RESISTANTRESISTANT
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Brown Deer
The Journey
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Established in 1959 – “Sign-I-Cast”
New Ownership – 1981
There Must Be A Better Way – 1990
Hartford Manufacturing Complex – 1993
The Pritzker Group - 2008
Hartford Mfg Complex
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Facilities
435,000 ft2 manufacturing space
Medium to high volume production
Part size: 1oz to 20 lbs.
Carbon/low alloy steels & stainless steel
In house heat treat
Corporate tooling center
HMC-5 secondary operations module
Machining
Assembly
Powder Coat
Hartford, WI
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