Aluminum Casting Product Development: Because Excellence is Your Chief Concern
Without thoughtful planning and forethought, your products could face dozens of defects and manufacturing failures. We provide every aluminum casting project with high-quality examination and advanced technologies from our product development department.
The Product Development Department at BAF supports manufacturing by planning pours and engineering tooling for optimal results. Your project is in experienced and knowledgable hands at Boose Aluminum Foundry, where you can expect to focus on a thoughtful approach that involves in-depth planning of material sciences and developing process controls for each stage of production.
Join us to learn more about how our product development team ensures your aluminum castings will meet or exceed all your expectations.
What Happens in Product Development
at Boose Aluminum?
You come to us when you need your aluminum cast products to be produced fast, efficiently, and with minimal errors. Our Product Development team works with you, our customer, to produce aluminum castings according to your design. Our product development team works closely with our pattern shop to create a perfect mold to produce your product. We work within and throughout the foundry to refine every process in a holistic and forward-thinking process.
Design Planning
Our team starts by reviewing your designs and examining the needs of your product. This begins on the computer, as we utilize CAD, PDF, or any other file type you use, and involves careful consideration of alloys and materials that will fit your needs and the needs of your product’s geometry.
Process Consideration
From production size to product size and more, we must consider the full breadth of product creation and aluminum molding before heating a single ingot. This ensures that your mechanical properties and tensile strengths are optimized to your product’s needs.
Prototype Development
If rapid prototyping is needed, it can be done through additive manufacturing, or 3D sand printing. With the use of a foundry engineered 3D model, a mold can be printed with sand. Prototypes and preliminary foundry engineering can quickly be accomplished with a 3D model of your project. Our product development team will take the 3D model and apply foundry engineering to add a gating system in order to pour your prototype from a printed sand mold.
It all starts with solidification software, which allows us to predict how the metal charge will move throughout, settle into, and solidify inside your mold. Before we melt a single ingot, we want to know how the molten metal will flow into the mold so that we can predict potential defects or problem areas. This software process allows our engineers to develop a gating system that will produce castings consistently without defects, with the added benefit of reduced time to production.
Process control and documentation are maintained throughout the casting process, with attention to detail at the heart of the product development department.
What Our Product Development Team Offers
Your choice of foundry shouldn’t just be the first one you find. You need a foundry that offers the capability to produce every possible item you can imagine. The metalworkers you work with will determine the efficiency of your money spent, the speed of your production, and the quality of the end product. This all begins with our development team, who will help you with services like:
- Feasibility studies
- Assistance with foundry engineering your design
- Metal feeding and solidification simulations
These ensure that your entire process will be smoother and more valuable for everyone involved. Don’t settle for a foundry that will just put together a slap-dash mold that could fail and have dozens of errors. Your industry demands that you receive the best possible results for its spending, which we ensure by planning and examining every step with a meticulous eye to detail.
What You Cast at Boose Aluminum Foundry Matters
Your metal casting needs are not just a random choice. A custom metal fabrication is made with a focus on quality and results. When you put the time and effort into this choice, you deserve a company that puts just as much time and effort into your product. We at Boose Aluminum want nothing more than to make sure that our customers receive exactly what they expect—with customer service that surpasses their expectations.
That’s what we’re doing in the product development department, and we invite you to experience it for yourself.
