2009 - PACE Award Winner Alcoa What: Aluminum Vacuum Die Casting (AVDC) Process Judge's Citation: The quest for better performance from much lighter parts and systems is a major automotive theme today ...

Gating through the center bore of this horizontal gear drive ensures uniform alloy distribution for consistent fill of the thread and gear tooth forms. The walls of the center hole are held parallel ...

DFM Strategy to Reduce Casting Risk The journey to a flawless die-cast part begins on the drawing board. Design for Manufacturability (DFM) represents where production issues are solved proactively.

Magnesium has attributes that make it a very desirable manufacturing material. It has the lowest density of all structural metals, making it ideal for applications in which weight saving is a priority ...

Semi-solid die casting technology has not yet achieved large-scale engineering application due to its poor process stability. Utilizing the quality prediction model based on filling pressure can help ...

Recently, I was offered a 1997 Volkswagen Golf for the low, low price of free — assuming I could haul it away, as it suffered from a thoroughly borked automatic transmission. Being incapable of saying ...

SMM Express] According to reports, following BMW's first adoption of the TURBU-DURCK die-casting process for mass-producing aluminum alloy wheels on ...