Efficient Metal Injection Molding for Industrial Applications
Metal injection Moulding (MIM) is an emerging manufacturing technology across the world for the small, complex, precise and net shape metal parts. MIM Technology is evolved from Plastic injection moulding and Powder Metallurgy.
Industrial products demand high product performance and reliability at a competitive cost. MIM satisfies this need by offering range of high performance materials and competitive cost of manufacturing for high volume production. The engineered MIM products are widely used for industrial product applications like door hardware, hand and power tools, electronic and hydraulic components.
MIM has the following inherent capabilities, because of which it is one of the best suited manufacturing processes for small and complex metal parts for Industrial product applications.
1. Engineered products for maximum value :
MIM technology provides the unique ability to produce highly complex components that cannot be achieved economically by any other process.
The industrial product application ranges from high strength structural parts to tiny fibre optic connectors. The industrial products demand high performance and reliability at a competitive cost.
MIM offers the feasibility of manufacturing complex three dimensional geometries with varying wall thickness and the cross sections with required surface finish requirements. So, the product designs can be made compact which can deliver the desired function more effectively and efficiently. Thus MIM can add maximum value in the product design to engineer the products that require high performance and reliability.
Hence MIM is most suitable for manufacturing of engineered products with high performance and reliability.
2. Material for diverse application   :
 The industrial products’ application has a diversified range of products which require a large variety of materials to satisfy the need of every application.
MIM offers a large variety of materials like various grades of steels and stainless steels, Cobalt, Nickel, Tungsten and Titanium alloys. Also, any tailor-made chemistry can be formulated by MIM to achieve the desired material properties.
MIM can engineer the material with required material properties due the availability of raw material in the form of powder. MIM can process most of the metals/alloys for which the raw material is available in the form of powder.
Hence MIM is most suitable manufacturing process for engineered Industrial products application parts which has diverse applications demanding variety of materials.
3. Adaptable production demands :
The wide range of applications for industrial products demand a manufacturing technology, which is capable of producing both small and large batch quantities at a competitive cost.
The flexibility of MIM to offer the possibility of the use of a single cavity tooling and processing in batch furnace for small batch production, as well as a multi-cavity tooling and processing in continuous furnace for large volume production makes MIM a suitable manufacturing process for products with varying volume requirements at competitive cost. This in turn reduces the risk and minimises the inventory. Thus MIM is one of the most suitable manufacturing processes for Industrial product applications which demand different volume requirement, to adapt to fast changing market conditions.
MIM Industrial product solutions:
Following are the few Industrial product application areas where the MIM parts are widely used:
Door hardware, Hand and power tools, Electronics, Hydraulics, Plumbing , Safety, Oil and Gas
