Powder Injection Molding (PIM) for Low Cost Manufacturing of Intricate Parts to Net-Shape
Abstract
Powder Injection Molding (PIM) is a low cost manufacturing process that produces very complex parts to net-shape in a wide variety of materials and unique alloys, including superalloys, stainless steels and carbides, resulting in minimal secondary and assembly operations. PIM offers significant cost savings, increased design and materials flexibility, increased possibility of miniaturization, high mechanical properties, good surface finish and high speed production. The activities and expertise in powder metallurgy as well as in process numerical modeling related to powder injection molding at the Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC-IMI) and at Maetta Sciences, a company that has research and development facilities at the NRC-IMI, will be presented. Selected solutions and examples realized by NRC-IMI and by Maetta Sciences using respectively their high pressure and their scalable PIM platforms will be presented and described. Potential applications for the military, transportation and aerospace sectors will be highlighted.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA524692
Entities
People
- Benoit Julien
- Eric Baril
- Jean-francois Hetu
- Mathieu Boisclair
- Sylvain Pelletier
- Yannig Thomas
Organizations
- National Research Council Canada