MICRO MACHINING | ARTICLE Conclusion
Photochemical etching is precisely suited to applications where the requirement is for small, precise, complex, feature-rich parts with no burrs, and no stress-related changes in the metal, which can occur using alternative metal forming technologies. Photochemical etching’s use of digital tooling ensures that multiple tooling iterations that are oſten necessary to perfect the precise nature of such intricate metal parts are not costly in terms of time or money. In addition, the consistency of the process means no time consuming and potentially costly retooling and revalidation are necessary. In the case of the flexure produced for Tales Cryogenics satellite cooler, all these atributes combined to make photochemical etching the manufacturing process of choice for this especially critical and exacting application.
Bonny Van Geel is the Technical Sales Manager at Precision Micro. Serving the Benelux markets he has over 25 years of chemical etching industry experience. For over 50 years’, Precision Micro has pioneered photo chemical etching, a manufacturing technology using subtractive chemical erosion to produce burr- and stress-free precision metal components. Te company creates highly innovative solutions to a wide range of engineering challenges using a 2D process to create 3D components that cannot be created with other technologies and, oſten, by any other competitor. Tat is why Precision Micro has won a reputation as an industry innovator, trusted to deliver by major global manufacturing concerns across multiple markets.
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