Custom engineered services and
products are available at SMPM. They include but are not limited
to designing materials to meet specific applications, testing
materials to provide P/M alternatives, and providing slugs for
material analysis or machining (or we can even machine and provide
prototype parts without the tooling expense). In recent years
we have gained valuable experience converting parts to P/M previously
produced by other metal forming techniques which rely on using
labor intensive processing, and precision machining, with a lot
of wasted material.
The production process here is
"chipless" with nearly all of the raw material being turned into
parts, this is possible because of our ability to press sophisticated
geometry and maintain strict tolerances producing net shape.
The variety of materials to select
from is unlimited, we can custom blend any metal powders to target
your unique requirements and then provide test data to compare
with established materials or construct testing equipment to closely
reflect the application.
We feel that powder metallurgy
is just beginning to see a growth mode and is going to become
very popular not just for saving customers money, but also for
solving application and design issues because of its flexibility
to target specific customer concerns.
Our Auto CAD system can provide
detailed engineering drawings and our engineers can provide material
data and specification conformance to help you turn your idea
into metal.