MIM Towards Enhanced Performance and Cost Reduction

摘要

The Metal Injection Moulding technology has found a prominent position in the precision engineering manufacturing as a product performance enhancing and cost cutting tool. The increasing transparency of this multi stage process is gradually leading MIM to be a standard manufacturing process. Over the past five years the number of captive and jobbing players has increased. The increased number of MIM operations has prompted design engineers to take advantage of the capabilities encouraged by the purchasing community. MIM being ideally a mass production process, the cost advantage needs to be harnessed through consistent quality and high yields. MIM parts need to satisfy the material cost -processing cost - processing yield envelop to be an effective cost cutting tool. In addition to these, the design and material flexibility offered by MIM lead to generating designs and materials contributing to enhancement of product performance.