Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process

Presently, mold material for metal injection molding (MIM) process is metal and are made through machining. However, machining could be time consuming, costly and skill intensive process to accurately process the mold. Moreover, for the demands when MIM part requirements are in low volume and fea...

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Main Authors: Altaf, Khurram, Abdul Rani, Ahmad Majdi, Ahmad, Faiz, Ahmad, Junaid
Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Published: 2018
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-887002020-09-24T20:12:43Z Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process Altaf, Khurram Abdul Rani, Ahmad Majdi Ahmad, Faiz Ahmad, Junaid School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing (Pro-AM 2018) Singapore Centre for 3D Printing DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing::Polymers and plastics 3D Printing Rapid Tooling DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping Presently, mold material for metal injection molding (MIM) process is metal and are made through machining. However, machining could be time consuming, costly and skill intensive process to accurately process the mold. Moreover, for the demands when MIM part requirements are in low volume and features are customized, the machined mold is rendered useless once the part demands have been met. 3D printing could be a quick process to make molds from polymers for the customized and low volume MIM cycles. While this 3D printed mold may not be sustainable for mass production, yet they could potentially be viable for small MIM cycles like prototype manufacturing. The present study investigates the performance of polymer molds made form fused deposition modeling (FDM) process for their potential use as direct Rapid Tooling (RT) in MIM process. It was concluded that 3D printed polymer molds could be successfully applied in MIM process for prototype manufacturing and low volume demands of end-use parts. Published version 2018-09-10T06:16:45Z 2019-12-06T17:09:08Z 2018-09-10T06:16:45Z 2019-12-06T17:09:08Z 2018 Conference Paper Altaf, K., Abdul Rani, A. M., Ahmad, F., & Ahmad, J. (2018). Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing (Pro-AM 2018), 656-661. doi:10.25341/D4J014 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88700 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45911 10.25341/D4J014 en © 2018 Nanyang Technological University. Published by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 6 p. application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
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country Singapore
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topic DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing::Polymers and plastics
3D Printing
Rapid Tooling
DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping
spellingShingle DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing::Polymers and plastics
3D Printing
Rapid Tooling
DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping
Altaf, Khurram
Abdul Rani, Ahmad Majdi
Ahmad, Faiz
Ahmad, Junaid
Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process
description Presently, mold material for metal injection molding (MIM) process is metal and are made through machining. However, machining could be time consuming, costly and skill intensive process to accurately process the mold. Moreover, for the demands when MIM part requirements are in low volume and features are customized, the machined mold is rendered useless once the part demands have been met. 3D printing could be a quick process to make molds from polymers for the customized and low volume MIM cycles. While this 3D printed mold may not be sustainable for mass production, yet they could potentially be viable for small MIM cycles like prototype manufacturing. The present study investigates the performance of polymer molds made form fused deposition modeling (FDM) process for their potential use as direct Rapid Tooling (RT) in MIM process. It was concluded that 3D printed polymer molds could be successfully applied in MIM process for prototype manufacturing and low volume demands of end-use parts.
author2 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
author_facet School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Altaf, Khurram
Abdul Rani, Ahmad Majdi
Ahmad, Faiz
Ahmad, Junaid
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author Altaf, Khurram
Abdul Rani, Ahmad Majdi
Ahmad, Faiz
Ahmad, Junaid
author_sort Altaf, Khurram
title Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process
title_short Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process
title_full Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process
title_fullStr Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process
title_sort enhanced polymer rapid tooling for metal injection moulding process
publishDate 2018
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88700
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45911
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