Casting Tips

1. How will your part be used?
2. When does low volume production using the prototyping process make sense?
3. Accurate Simulation
4. Which prototyping process is right for you?
5. What to do when your production tooling is no longer available or functional?
6. Production determines the prototyping process
7. Enhancing Part Performance
8. Do aesthetics matter in prototype castings?
9. Test your prototype in two materials with one tool
10. Meeting the needs of structural loads in prototype
11. If you want something specific, ask for it.
12. Casting complex geometries in prototype
13. Is your production process locked in at start of design?
14. Can solidification modeling software eliminate the need for an actual prototype casting?
15. Changing part design to suit the prototype process is not necessary
16. Sand castings mimic surface finish of die castings
17. Casting draft angles in aluminum prototype castings
18. Looking beyond the prototype
19. The art and science of sand casting
20. Production quantity determines the process
21. Meeting Time Constraints in the Prototype Process
22. Turnkey Product Delivery
23. Using the investment casting process for your prototype
24. Accurately Simulate Cast Parts in the Hog-Out Process
25. When do you finalize the design of your component?
26. What drives the cost of cast prototypes?
27. Choosing the right vendor for your prototype
28. When CAD models don’t tell the whole story
29. Thin-wall castings in Aluminum Prototypes
30. Alloy heat transfer characteristics in prototyping
31. Nanotechnology in Aluminum Prototypes
32. Cost-effectiveness of low volume production
33. Understand the parameters of the prototyping process
34. Do you know what design changes will cost you in the prototype process?
35. The importance of understanding simulation in prototyping
36. Control the cost of the production die
37. Features that should be machined
38. How quickly can a prototype be cast?
39. Tweak Part Design while Prototyping Your Part
40. Casting vs. Fabrication
41. Early decisions in the design process have the greatest financial impact
42. What should you do when things don’t go according to plan?
43. How much time will your prototype part require?
44. Release the part to the prototype supplier before the design is complete?
45. Did your part overheat in prototype testing?
46. How long does it take to produce a prototype casting?
47. What is the real purpose of your prototype?
48. Lost in translation
49. You need how many parts by when?
50. The Designer’s Prototype Alloy Guide
51. What should your prototype cost?
52. Problems don’t get solved in the production casting process
53. How many castings do you really need?
54. Are you using the right prototyping technology?
55. What is your primary reason for creating the prototype?
56. Hog-out Prototyping Process – The Pros & Cons
57. Selecting the Prototyping Process right for your Application
58. When do you really need the part?
59. Is your casting the pacing item of your company’s prototype build?
60. Determine your prototype quantity requirements.
61. The production alloy may not necessarily be the right alloy for your prototypes.
62. “Should this feature be cast in the prototype?”