The Total Cost of Die Casting Tooling
The Total Cost of Die Casting Tooling Estimator is a free online tool that helps companies account for all relevant factors — overhead, balance sheet, risks, corporate strategy and other external and internal business considerations — to determine the true total cost of ownership. Using this information, companies can better evaluate sourcing, identify alternatives and even make a case when selling against offshore competitors.
The North American Die Casting Association has a checklist that alerts US companies to hidden costs of offshoring products. We have had this list on our website for years and I had blogged about it three years ago to increase awareness to the risks of offshoring die castings.
The list is called can be found here: 14 Reasons to Buy American.
Premier utilizes state of the art equipment in manufacturing high pressure aluminum die castings such as Kawasaki robots, VisiTrak process monitoring systems, Mokon die temperature control systems, vacuum die casting, and a central lubrication system for the die spray.
If you have any parts you would like Premier to review, please contact us online or send your drawings or electronic files to chinadiecasting.co.
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When To Move To Die Casting | Die Casting Advantages
Die casting is becoming a top option for parts production because it features significant advantages over many other methods. We’ve found it to be one of the more cost-effective solutions, especially when you’re working with complex parts, because it can achieve tight tolerances and build out unique shapes with less machining.
Dies can be made for parts that are simple or complex. As you go more complex, the cost increases, but that’s true for almost all production techniques. The advantage for Aluminum Auto Parts complex parts is that it can properly form your part in a single shot that forms within milliseconds of injection of the material.