Product Details

Product Description

Tight Tolerance Powder Metallurgy Auto Parts

1. We specialized in the PIM technology of research and development, production and service,

which include Powder Metallurgy Auto Parts and so on.

2. Process:powder metallurgy / metal injection molding

3. High precision,100% quality with competitive price.

4. We can make the products according to customers' drawings or requirement (OEM).

5. Short delivery time.

Customer Show ( Customer Approval Show Only )

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Note: Sofine PIM is not authorized to use their names, these names are just to shows our skill level and products standards.

Quality Assurance

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Obtained ISO9001: 2000 version quality system certification in August 2007.
Obtained ISO9001: 2008 version quality system certification in October 2010.
Obtained QC080000:2005 version certification in October 2010.
Obtained certifications of TS16949 in April 2013.
All products have SGS or CTI report, conform to Environmental request of RoHS. Material has test report of REACH.

Our Services

Based on the whole life cycle product and project management, Sofine provides "one-stop" end to solution from design conception to perfect fulfillment. this practice makes the cost effective, best quality and delivery value added to our customer.

Sofine have professional PIM team over 10% of total employees, many of them have more than 15 yesrs experences in PIM field. We can provide world class design and engineering practice to customer by ways of tooling design, prototyping, and advanced technology R&D lab transferring.

Post Process

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Cosmetic Base Post Process information are Subject to Material & Requirements
CNC Post Process	Some complex shape product need CNC/ Machining during the post process,this could be addition but it is not important that every part must need it. This depend on part's requirements.
PVD	Possible to get the different PVD color such as White,Black,Golden,Brown,Green,Blue ect……
Surface Finish	MIM product are good to get the required surface finish such as hair line surface finish,brush finish,sand blast mirror surface finish ect
Plating	MIM material can be readily plated or surface treated with standard process used on wrought material with no need for special surface preparation.Examples of some plating and surface treatments offered are: electrolysis nickel,chrome,zinc,chromatic,nickel teflon,black oxide and passivisation.

Company Information

Overview

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Professional PIM turnkey solution provider since 2004
15+ patents of invention in binders and process design
700+ employees, 10%+ from engineering and R&D
Over 250 Tons annual power consumed capability
35,000 square meters of facility

Technology Strength

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Feature	Best Possible ±	Nominal or Typical ±
Absolute dimension	0.025mm(0.001 inch)	0.05mm(0.002 inch)
Angle	0.05°	2°
Density	0.20%	1%
Dimension	0.05%	0.30%
Fatness	0.10%	0.20%
Hole diameter	0.04%	0.10%
Hole location	0.10%	0.30%
Parallelism	0.20%	0.30%
Perpendicularity	0.1% or 0.1°	0.2% or 0.3°
Mundness	0.30%	0.30%
Surface roughness	0.2μm(8 μ inch)	0.8μm(32 μ inch)
Weight	0.10%	0.40%
Comer radius	0.5mm(0.02 inch)	0.3mm(0.012 inch)

Business Distribution

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Process Description

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	Metal powder of fine partical size is mixed with thermoplastic polymer to form a mixture of ingredients konwn as feedstock. The feedstock made into pellets and fed into the moulding machine.
	The feedstock is heated to melt the plastic and molded to the desired shape. The moulded parts is known as green part.
	The binder is removed thermally by heating to around 400 degree centigrade from the green part,by a debinding process. The debound parts called as brown parts and is brittle and porous.
	The brown parts is heated to more than 1200 degree centigrade,in the finale sintering process allowing the part into a dense solid with the elimination of pores. The sintered density is wimilar to a casting at about 98% of theoretical.

Product Management

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ESI ( Earlier Supplier Involve )

Conception modeling and optimize
design for manufacturing assessment
Cost-effective modeling

Tooling Design & Fast Prototyping

Tooling design and fabrication
Fast prototyping
Failure mode effective analysis
Sample qualification by 3rd party testing

Net-shape

NPI management
Process fine-tune
Self-motivated cost down plan
Capacity and delivery balancing

Secondary Operations

Maching,laser welding
Surface finish
Heat treat
Final assembly if necessary

Surface finish:electroplate, PVD, sandblasting, painting, polishing and laser engraving etc.

Design Guideline

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Fast assessment of a part suitable for metal or ceramic injection molding based on:

Cost-effective

Normally yearly demand over 20k and typical weight from 0.02-50g will be highly cost reduction when tooling cost and raw material cost been considered.

Geometry complex

PIM technology is specially profit for component has holes,slots,ribs,protrusions,and multiple features.The typical max outlet is range from 25mm to 35mm,wall thicjness 0.08 to 10mm.

Several aspects of the PIM component design improve the ease of manufacturing,and there are a number of design features that should be avoided. These are categorized as follows:

Allowed design features

Axisymmetric,nonsymmetrical,prismatic,square,and freeform features
Cantilever and nonsymmetrical shapes
Stiffening ribs and locator features for assembly
Protrusions,bosses,and studs
Most hole shapes are allowed, including blind and through holes
Holes at angles to one another
Undercuts, grooves,slots,depressions
External teeth,external or internal threads
Knurled and waffle surfaces
Part number or identification logo created by the mould

Features to avoid

Inside closed cavities
Undercuts on internal bores
Very shape corners or design-desired radius greater than 0.05mm
Long pieces without a draft or taper to allow ejection

Packaging & Shipping

Packaging:

Standard sea or air packing for powder metallurgy products,such as carton,wooden box, Retail packing available. We can custom anything about PIM with your company logo as your request.

Shipping:

Sea,Air,TNT,UPS,EMS,DHL,FEDEX

FAQ

Q: What is MIM technology ?
A: MIM (Metal Injection Molding) is a manufacturing technology that combines the shape making complexity of Plastic Injection Molding with the material flexibility of Powder Metallurgy.

If you want to know more about PIM, please click here what's PIM.