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Quick change and continuous improvement at Custom Castings
Why spend hours on a job when you could do it in minutes? No more long changeover and greater ownership over the process — welcome to quick change tooling. At Custom Castings, we take advantage of point-of-use tooling wherever we can, and have implemented it in as...
Below the surface: Heat treatment at Custom Castings
The tensile strength of an aluminum part improves with heat treatment. Heat treating to a T6 temper provides the biggest improvement in strength at 57 per cent.
Material selection: Switching up the status quo
In our first guide to material selection, we discussed the metals we use and their properties.
But what about swapping out one material for another?
Speed and competition: How we keep up with recreational vehicle trends
In an industry where speed-to-market is crucial, Custom Castings has a number of features that make us well-poised to make parts for recreational vehicles.
Your Introduction to Heat Treatment
Heat treatment heats and cools parts, resulting in hardened or softened aluminum. Heat treatment and permanent mold casting make a great combination in your part’s success.
Know When it’s Time to Move on from Die Casting
Die casting isn’t always the right process when you’re manufacturing service-level quantities, so we’ve given you another option.
Your Guide to Material Selection
Material selection: one of the most important aspects of the casting process. This guide outlines many materials and helps you determine the right fit.
Know when to transition from sand casting to permanent mold
While sand casting is ideal for lower production volumes, the transition to permanent mold results in more benefits and can be just as affordable.
How our robot cell took the weight off technicians
We faced a challenge in manufacturing large aluminum parts, one that risked our efficiency and safety. We took this as an opportunity to improve our processes with the robot cell.
Launching New Molds Quicker With Solidification Software
Solidification software helps us drive toward highly manufacturable and efficient designs – this allows us to not only predict the future, but to rewrite it by fixing problems before they occur.