Advantages of IC
There are many reasons engineers and purchasing agents specify investment castings for their projects. Here are just a few:
- Greater Design freedom
- Feasibility of replacing two or more fabricated sub-assembling by a single piece casting.
- Lighter, Stronger components may be designed, without a mismatch, giving an improved aesthetic appearance.
- The process permits a high level of consistency, batch to batch.
- Compared to other conventional way of manufacturing castings, with lost wax process close dimensional tolerance of ±0.13mm per 25mm and a fine smooth grain finished from 80 to 120 micron inches, 2.0µ to 3.2µ , are normally achieved.
- With the ability to produce special alloys to customers’ requirements, the choice of metallurgical specifications is virtually unlimited.
- The light stressed wax impression dies have a very long life and are not costly considering design complexity.
- If required, minor design modification may be made economically without going for few tooling.
- Increased productivity can result from reduction or elimination of machining and the consequent deployment of shop floor.
- Delivery period for repeat orders in large or small quantities can be 3- 4 weeks.
- Comparatively small orders can be produced at economical prices.
- A high level of metallurgical integrity and Strength can be achieved in the lost wax process.
