Case Studies Uni-Cast Produces Complex Electronics Housing
The customer, familiar with investment casting capabilities, turned to Uni-Cast, LLC. for this military electronics housing. Designing the component as an investment casting, rather than as an assembly, realized a reduced weight and elimination of assembly time and cost.
Outside of design complexity this part requires
controlled solidification with elevated mechanical property requirements. Uni-Cast’s SPARK process was utilized to achieve these requirements. The SPARK process has proven to be a reliable method of consistently achieving or exceeding property requirements consistently.
The component was
initially manufactured from SLA patterns to validate process capabilities. Prototypes were cut-up to validate mechanical requirements and laser scanned for dimensional accuracy.
Uni-Cast, LLC.
PART: Electronics Housing Size: 20 x 16 x 15 in. Alloy: E357
Notes: Due to the nature of this product, no further information can be made available.
Lightweight Micro-Drone Surveillance Mount is Fabrication Conversion
Typically manufactures as a fabrication, Aristo-Cast has
investment cast this lightweight camera mount in Mg-A291E for their customer, resulting in not only a more cost effective approach to component manufacture, but a more durable one- piece component. Aristo-Cast employed generative design to give the part enough support strength where required and to help eliminate material when not necessary. The Company used on-site 3D printers to produce the generatively designed patterns and was able to cast them in magnesium which is 1/3 less weight than aluminum.
PART: Micro-Drone Hardware Size: 1.90 x 1.90 x 1.10 in. Alloy: Mg-A291E
Notes: Fabrication Conversion 36 ❘ January 2021 ®
Aristo-Cast, Inc.
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