| SMC
Powder Metallurgy allows its customers to realize significant savings
on a wide range of P/M products, as well as on secondary operations,
including: |
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Sizing
and Coining |
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Oil
Impregnation |
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Infiltration |
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Heat
Treating |
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Machining |
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Plating |
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Drilling
and Tapping |
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Grinding
and Lapping |
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Staking,
Riveting and Swaging |
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Reaming |
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Steam
Treating |
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Resin
Impregnating |
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Assemblies |
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 To
help us apply our technology to your requirements including the development
of designs for new parts or modification of designs for existing parts,
please |
read the questions on the next
three screens so you can provide one of our sales engineers with information
that help us to quote your job accurately.
| Checklist
for P/M Specifications |
| 1. |
Briefly describe
the part you're specifying, including its proper name and use(s). |
| 2. |
How many
will you need in your first order? |
| 3. |
How many
will you need in each additional order? |
| 4. |
How often
will you need to be re-supplied?
(e.g., weekly, monthly, quarterly) |
| 5. |
Can you submit
detailed drawings of the part, including assembly drawings and samples
of existing parts or prototypes? |
| 6. |
Can the design
be modified without affecting its functions? If so, where? |
| 7. |
Will the
P/M part replace one currently in use, or is this application a new
one? |
| 8. |
Under what
service condition(s) will this part be used? (e.g., extreme heat,
extreme moisture, highly corrosive environment, high-impact/high-friction
environment) |
| 9. |
What kinds
of physical and mechanical properties will the product require? |
| 10. |
What kind
of finish will the product require? (e.g., plating, oxide coating,
surface finishing) |
| 11. |
What kind
of secondary operations will you require SMC to perform? |
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Coining |
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Steam treating |
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Sizing |
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Plastic impregnation |
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Re-sintering |
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Plating |
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Metal infiltration |
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Tumbling |
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Machining |
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Oil impregnation |
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Heat treating |
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Shot preening |
| 12. |
If
you would like SMC to quote you on manufacturing bearings, what will
the load, shaft material and finish, speed, and diameter be? |
| 13. |
If
you would like SMC to quote you on manufacturing gears, splines, sprockets
or similar products, please give us the required. |
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Number of
teeth |
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Tooth thickness |
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Theoretical
pitch diameter |
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Backlash |
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Pressure
angle |
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Helix angle |
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Measurement
over wires |
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AGMA quality
class |
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