Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ceramics
- process
- CUT FROM SOLID
- Machinning
- Characteristics
- Versatile in term of producing
diferent shapes. Can be applied to
virtually any solid material. High
degree of accuracy.
- Used for
- Pistons,
screws,
turbines.
- material processing
- Ceramics
wood
metals
plastics
- Jiggering and Jollying
- Used for:
- Producing
tableware and
are
distinguished by
the depth of the
shapes they
produced
- Characteristics
- Allows complete
control of the
thicknesses and
shapes of
sections
- Can be
cost-effective
than slip
casting
- Less prone
to
distortion
than cast
pots.
- Turning
- Characteristics
- Low or high
volume
production
runs
- Can,
have low
tooling
costs
- In standard
turning parts are
limited to circular
profiles
- Used for:
- Bowls,
plates
door
handles
pestles
ceramic
electrical
insulators
furniture
- Materlal processing
- metal
good
plastic
ceramics
- Sheet
- Water Jet cutting
- Characteristics
- No tool
contact,
therefore no
edge
deformation.
- Can be used to cut
very fine details in a
variety of materials
of different
thckness
- Used for
- Decorative
architectural
panels and
stones
- Material processing
- Glass
stone
metals
- Lasser cutting
- Characteristics
- No tool wear,
minimal
clamping and it
offers a a
consistent highly
accurate cut
- Suited to a
range of
materials.
- Not post
treatment of
edges
- Used for
- Model
components,
surgical
instruments,
wooden toys,
metal
meshes and
filters.
- Material processing
- metal
wood
plastic
paper
ceramic
glass
- Thin & hollow
- Slip Casting
- Characteristics
- Ideal for
producing
hollwo ware.
- Complex
forms can
easily be
achieved
- Efficient use
of material
- Lends itself
well to
low-production
runs.
- Used for
- Any type of
hollow
product,
from
one-off
pieces of
tableware
such as
teapots
- Material processing
- Ceramic
- Into Solid
- Sintering
- Characteristics
- Suited to
components
with varying
wall
thcikness
- Efficient
use of
materials.
- Parts have
good
nondirectional
properties
- Requires a
number of
different
stages
- Used for
- Production of
bearings, where
the allows
lubricants to
flow through
the actual
bearings
- Material processing
- Ceramic
metal
plastic
glass
- Hot Isostatic
- Characteristics
- Produces parts of
high density with no
porosity
- Provides an
efficient use
of material
- Costly setup
- Shrinkage can
be problematic
- Used for
- The cost of the
operation limits
its use to
high-spec
components that
require high
physical and
mechanical
properties, such
as turbine-engine
componetns and
orthopaedic
- Material processing
- Ceramic
metal
plastics
- Compression molding
- Characteristics
- Ideal for forming
thermoset plastics
- Ideal for
producing
parts that
require large,
thick-walled,
solid
sections.
- Used for
- Melamine
kitchenware (bowls,
cups, and similar
products).
- Material processing
- Ceramic
Plastic
- Complex
- Ceramic injection moulding
- Characteristics
- Highly
versatile in
terms of
molding
different
shapes.
- Cost-effective parts.
- Can
involve
long
lead
times
- Used for
- candy packaging
(tic tac boxes)
medical implants
- Material processing
- Ceramic
- Viscous plastic processing
- Characteristics
- Limited
number of
manufacturers.
- The process can be
applied to a wide
range of ceramic
materials and
offers materials
with good green
strength
- Used for
- Flat componetns,
substrates for electrical
components, kiln
furniture, springs, rods
and tubes, strenght in
green-state cups, body
armor, and biomedical
applications.
- Material Processing
- Ceramic
- Advanced
- Contour Crafting
- Characteristics
- Quick production
Paper is cheap
compared to
alternative plastic
resines and is
readily avialable.
- Used for
- In the medical industry, to
reproduce x-rays in a phisical
form to help surgeons to plan
ahead of operation, and in
dentistry to enable orthodontis
to create molds
- Material processing
- Ceramics
composites