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The term "tooling manufacturing"
includes designing manufacturing - repairing or assembling for the
purpose of selling tools, dies, moulds, jigs, fixtures, gauges,
machinery, machining systems, robotics, automation equipment,
models, patterns, general jobbing machine shop products and
cutting tools. Restricting membership to any tooling manufacturing
and industry suppliers as associate members has assured that the
Association will always be devoted to manufacturing in the tooling
and machining sectors.
In order to reduce the time and costs of the products development
in the sand casting process, we carried out a study based on
tooling manufacturing with a new rapid prototyping process. This
tooling manufacturing and evolution allowed the adequacy of the
geometry used for the simulation to the tooling employed
physically in the production. This allowed a reduction of the wall
thickness to 4mm and retained reliable manufacturing process. In
order to validate the Tooling manufacturing parts design of the
tooling manufacturing, the company uses layer manufacturing
technologies to make geometrical prototypes. After it has been
validated, it can serve to obtain functional prototypes with a
lost pattern process. Both are used to allow the entire group
involved in the project to validate the solutions, by the
application of the concurrent engineering concepts for rapid
product development.
These tooling manufacturing improvements are nowadays included in
the company culture. The next step for the industrialization time
and costs reduction is the introduction of the rapid tooling
technologies. For sand casting, the processes frequently used are
the stereo lithography, powder melting, layer cutting out, layer
machining, and 3D machining. Specialists in manufacturing mould
tools, jigs, fixtures, precision machining & spark eroding
scheduling a flexible system with our audit program, assocition
engineer work.
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