How to reduce the cost of powder metallurgy?

How to reduce the cost of powder metallurgy?

How to reduce the cost of powder metallurgy? The cost of powder metallurgy includes many factors, such as raw material cost, labor cost, electricity cost, material waste cost, machine loss cost, time cost, etc. Will mass production reduce the cost of powder metallurgy? Here is a brief introduction of the Zhongwei Precision Editor:

powder metallurgy

Powder metallurgy can produce complex parts and components in large quantities (6000 pcs), and can reduce machining or no cutting and up to 95% material utilization rate. It is easy to form and has high precision, which greatly reduces the waste of powder metallurgy materials, and also reduces the production cost. If it is a small batch of complex parts production, then the cost of powder metallurgy will be higher.

The cost of powder metallurgy consists of the following aspects:

1. Material waste cost

Powder metallurgy is a new near net forming technology, which can reduce cutting or no cutting. The utilization rate of materials can be as high as 95%. The cost of material waste is superior to the traditional casting process.

2. Material cost

Powder metallurgy process requires metal powder or some mixtures as raw materials, but the cost of raw materials in the whole powder metallurgy process only accounts for one third, which is similar to the cost of electricity generated during production.

3. Labor cost

As powder metallurgy belongs to high-tech molding technology, each process such as mold design and production, mold loading and mold adjustment, sintering, etc. needs to be equipped with an engineer, so the cost of small batch production is high.

4. Time cost

It takes about 4 hours for the powder metallurgy process to process some complicated precision parts. With the subsequent post-processing and small details, the time cost is a little high. However, powder metallurgy can be produced in batches. When the number of products reaches thousands, it reflects the time cost value of powder metallurgy, which greatly shortens the time and has high precision.

5. Machine wastage cost

No matter any production and processing instrument, there will be the cost of machine loss, which is inevitable.

To sum up, we can see that if it is mass production, powder metallurgy is undoubtedly more cost-effective. Of course, in the process of mass production of powder metallurgy, we also need to simplify the structure of powder metallurgy parts as much as possible under the condition of meeting the use of powder metallurgy parts, so as to effectively reduce the cost of powder metallurgy.