Princeton, New Jersey – The Award of Distinction in the Aerospace/Military Category goes to Advanced Forming Technology, an ARC Group Worldwide Co., Longmont, Colorado, for a metal injection molded (MIM) 17-4 PH stainless steel ferrule that goes into an aerospace engine made by its customer Rolls Royce. The part provides a conductive path between the screen and the engine, while offering support to the single cable and preventing the placement of cable loading on the screen. The component, with its complex geometry, is sintered exactly to net shape, with no secondary operations needed to meet required dimensional specifications. Cost savings were the primary driver for the switch to a MIM part from one machined from bar stock.
Winners of the 2016 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards Competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (an international trade association for the metal powder producing and consuming industries), were announced at the POWDERMET2016 International Conference on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials. Receiving grand prizes and awards of distinction, the winning parts are outstanding examples of powder metallurgy (PM)’s precision, performance, complexity, economy, innovation, and sustainability.
The winning parts show how customers from around the world are taking advantage of PM’s remarkable design advantages.
MIM is one of the PM-based technologies, that forms metal powders into precision components used in applications such as auto engines and transmissions, hardware, industrial machinery, sporting goods, defense, and firearms.
Source: Metal Powder Industries Federation