Investment casting is an advanced casting process that relies on the use of refractory molds to shape and produce precise metal parts. It has the following advantages:
1. Excellent dimensional accuracy and surface quality: Investment castings not only have extremely high dimensional accuracy, but also meet extremely high standards in size and appearance, without the need for excessive subsequent processing.
2. Production capacity of complex-shaped castings: Investment casting technology can cope with a variety of complex casting shape challenges, including thin-walled and lightweight parts, making it an ideal choice for producing complex and delicate parts.
3. Wide range of material applicability: No matter what alloy, investment casting can do it. Especially for high-temperature alloy castings, such as jet engine blades, investment casting provides solutions that are difficult to achieve with traditional machining or sand casting.
4. Flexible production mode: The production mode of investment casting is extremely flexible, and it can easily cope with both single-piece customization and large-scale batch production, providing manufacturers with a wide range of production space.
5. Reduction of machining workload: Due to the high dimensional accuracy and low surface roughness of investment castings, the need for subsequent machining is significantly reduced. This means that the use time of machine tools and equipment can be greatly reduced, and production efficiency can be improved.
6. Saving of raw materials and working hours: The use of investment casting technology can not only reduce the waste of metal raw materials, but also significantly shorten the production cycle and reduce production costs. This is of great significance to improving the efficiency and economy of the entire production process.
