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Delmar Die Casting Company Tooling
I have received several RFQ’s (requests for quote) from prior DelMar Die Casting Company customers lately. These RFQ’s are for zinc die casting parts. Delmar Die Casting Company left a large hole in the Southern California zinc die casting economy. Many of these prior Delmar Die Casting Company customers and potential Kinetic Die Casting Company customers have their die casting tooling in their possession. Not all the tools are what you would expect. Some are die casting tooling inserts and some are unit die tools.
I have visited some of these companies to inspect the die casting tools. In every instance, I am able to make parts using their die casting tools.
I have found that these customers typically need only a few zinc die casting parts a year. Some times a few hundred zinc parts or a few thousand zinc parts. It seems that the these customers have a need that other die casting companies are not willing to fulfill. I am happy to make the low quantities for these customers.
If you have your die casting tooling from Delmar Die Casting Company, and you need a local California zinc die casting source for zinc parts, contact me here at Kinetic Die Casting Company.
Bob Thomas, President
Kinetic Die Casting Company
818-982-9200 phone
818-982-0877 fax
sales@kineticdc.com email
Kinetic Die Casting manufactures zinc and aluminium die casting. If you would like a quote, please visit our website:Die Casting quote
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Boeing — Not Taxpayers — Will Pay for Cost
Tony Capaccio of Bloomberg Business News reported last week that Boeing may end up spending $300 million more than is budgeted under its contract to develop a new Air Force aerial-refueling tanker.
Bad news for taxpayers, right?
Wrong — because the company will have to eat every cent of expenses above the ceiling on the development contract, which means if there actually is an “overrun,” taxpayers will be getting extra value at Boeing’s expense.
The story could be bad news for Boeing shareholders, but something tells me when the contract is completed Boeing will come in right at the ceiling.
Of course, that still could mean a zero rate of return, but the development contract leads to production of 179 planes, where the big aerospace company is likely to do just fine.
Thompson: Obama’s new acquisition practices “reward honesty and realism.”
What some observers don’t seem to get about the Bloomberg story is that the Obama administration really has tightened up on contracting practices, so if companies don’t stay within budgets, they lose money.
That’s a powerful incentive not to run up costs, and helps explain why the administration pushed for an early transition from cost-plus contracts to fixed-price arrangements on the F-35 fighter too.
In both cases, contractors will get the best results if they stay within budgets, which is exactly what policymakers were aiming to achieve.
There’s no advantage in bidding low to win and then trying to raise prices, because contract terms are too tight to allow recovery. So the new acquisition practices reward honesty and realism.
Government Got the Best Deal Possible
If you’re still stuck in the old way of thinking, then the fact that Boeing might have to eat some extra expenses suggests the company didn’t have a good handle on costs when it wrote its proposal.
Not so: It bid the price it needed to bid to beat rival Airbus. Both companies knew they would have to price their proposals aggressively to have any chance of winning, and as one senior Boeing executive put it to me, “We left a lot of shekels on the table.”
In other words, Boeing was willing to break even or maybe even lose money in the development phase in order to preserve its 50-year tanker franchise and keep Airbus out of its home market.
Thus, Tony Capaccio’s story doesn’t signal that anything has gone wrong with the tanker program. Quite the opposite — it shows government negotiators got the best deal possible from the winner.
Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D., is chief operating officer of the Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit Lexington Institute and chief executive officer of Source Associates, a for-profit consultancy. Prior to holding his present positions, he was deputy director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and taught graduate-level courses in strategy, technology and media affairs at Georgetown. He also has taught at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
-Industryweek
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U.S. Manufacturing, We’re ‘Playing Catch-Up’
Scott Paul, the executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), applauded the direction that the United States is taking with the newly created Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. The group will be led by top engineering universities and several major U.S. manufacturers.
Last week, President Obama also directed the National Economic Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy to work with the new partnership to implement a number of the recommendations of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
“We are playing catch-up on initiatives where we have public-private partnerships to try and spur manufacturing,” Scott said during an interview on C-SPAN. One particular area that is well-suited to joint efforts is in bringing new technology to the factory floor, Scott asserted. “That is a perfectly appropriate role for the government,” Scott said. Other countries are currently involved in these efforts and the U.S. was as well during the 80s. “This will help keep good-paying advanced-manufacturing jobs in the U.S.”
The group supports a national manufacturing strategy.
“The idea of a manufacturing strategy or industrial policy is hardly a radical concept,” the group says. “Alexander Hamilton constructed America’s first industrial policy in 1791. Setbacks during the War of 1812 due to a lack of domestic capacity to build naval vessels and military equipment cemented the determination of the federal government to grow manufacturing, a policy that continued until the end of World War II. Today, globalization and such economic approaches as a strong dollar policy favoring domestic consumption have helped to steadily erode manufacturing as a percentage of gross domestic product, as well as private-sector employment and other key measures.”
During the interview, he discussed the “Made in America” movement and other topics including the currency issue with China.
-Industryweek
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Die Castings Used for Motorcycles: Mechanical and Fixed Parts
Die Castings Used for Motorcycles: Mechanical and Fixed Parts. Most automotive and motorcycle manufacturing companies are now shifting to die casting. Die castings used for motorcycles and cars are more economical to manufacture. Plus, they exhibit traits of metals which are specially treated to produce high yield and resistance to deformations. Consumers and assembling companies choose die-cast parts because they are very durable.
Die casting is a metal shaping process that uses heat and very high pressures. At the beginning of the production line, die-cast tooling takes in molten metal. A certain amount of that liquefied metal will be fed to the dies. Here, there are two dies that are pushed against each other. The molten metal will be forced to take the shape of the cavity between the dies. Die casting can be used to form sheets, rods, billets and small detailed parts.
Hence die castings used for motorcycles and automotive take less time to prepare. Depending on the cycles of the processor, hundreds of products can be finished within minutes. There is no need to manually weld or screw separate pieces, since intricate designs can be achieved in a single molding. A common motorcycle part created through this method is the engine block itself. The vents, fixtures and holes on the engine are easily crafted without drilling or post-machining. Other examples are fixtures and external frames that hold the body of the vehicle.
Good die castings used for motorcycles are gauged through OEM and ODM standards. Criteria include yield strength, tensional strength and internal porosity. Certification means that the metal parts are durable on extreme conditions and repeated work.
To get a price for aluminum die casting parts or die casting tooling, call toll free 800-524-8083 and ask for sales. Or email us at sales@kineticdc.com for a fast response on a price quote.
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Advantages of Die Castings Used for Trucks and Cars
Advantages of Die Castings Used for Trucks and Cars. From parts intricate to simple, die casting can shape them all. This metal working process has important applications to the automotive industry. Vehicle assembly companies nowadays demand die castings used for trucks, cars and motorcycles. The parts include billets, coils, sheets and rods. If these parts are die-casted, they are expected to have high yield (breaking point) and fair toughness (resistance to fatigue due to repeated loading). Usually, production of these parts is done in large-scale assembly lines.
In die casting, high pressures (10 to 175 mega Pascal) are applied to the molten metal. The metal does not only take the shape of the dies; it also gains a more compact microscopic structure. Traditional shaping methods are sand casting, extrusion and forging. However, none of them boosts metal strength like die casting does. A typical die-cast procedure creates a yield of 69%.
Die castings used for trucks and cars are classified into mechanical and non-mechanical. The latter refers to fixtures and frames, which are used to hold the entirety of the vehicle’s body. Die casting can be used to create multiple-axial fittings, which are used to connect bars and frames of the truck. Fittings are similar to water pipe fittings at home. Mechanical parts include engine blocks, some types of gears and sprockets. These are usually made from magnesium and aluminum alloys because they have high melting points and resistance to corrosion.
Manufacturing die castings used for trucks and cars is also economical. It reduces production expenses because there is no need for trimming and post-machining. The results of die casting are precise down to the nearest micrometer.
To get a price for aluminum die casting parts or die casting tooling, call toll free 800-524-8083 and ask for sales. Or email us at sales@kineticdc.com for a fast response on a price quote.
Kinetic Die Casting manufactures products like aluminum hardware, and aluminum boxes. If you would like more information on Kinetic Die Casting, please visit our website:Kinetic Die Casting Company
