Engineers often have an important decision to make when they design and source a metal part: Should it be machined or die cast? In the past, a cursory review of production volumes, tolerances, ...

When you’re building a machine that needs to be accurate, you need to give it a nice solid base. A good base can lend strength to the machine to ensure its motions are accurate, as well as aid in ...

In many manufacturing operations, casting and machining still operate like two separate trades connected via a drawing and a due date. The foundry pours the part. The machine shop figures out how to ...

The automotive industry has high hopes for the potential of large-scale casting, or megacasting technology. But the adoption of high-pressure die castings to replace assemblages of stamped parts ...

Tesla has announced that it started operating what is believed to be the “world’s largest casting machine” at Fremont factory. As we previously reported, Tesla has made some significant casting ...

Tesla is expected to start the Cybertruck production next year, and IDRA’s 9,000-ton die-casting machines are crucial for building the truck’s body. According to ...

Control Key: The Delta Computer motion controller matches slave cylinder position to that of the master cylinder. The PLC is the larger box in the middle of the rack. Entiat, WA-In order to achieve ...

[Aurelio] wrote in to tell us about the smartCaster, an “Open source automatic roto-casting machine.” For those of you not familiar with roto-casting, or rotational molding, it’s a process whereby ...

Profits have almost doubled at Castings PLC, an iron casting and machining group which dates back to 1835 and employs more than 1,000 people, despite a dip in revenues.