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Efficiency Unleashed: The Advantages of Hydraulic Orbital Motors in Industrial Applications

September 4th, 2024

Manufacturing involves moving, shaping, and processing material. Most of this is done with motors, and in situations that need high torque, high force, and low speed, hydraulic orbital motors are often the best choice. This blog is for anyone who

Casting Innovation: The Crucial Role of Investment Casting in Aerospace Manufacturing

September 4th, 2024

Parts destined for aerospace applications must have good tensile and fatigue strength, yet be lightweight and corrosion resistant. These requirements drive part design and material choices, which go hand-in-hand with manufacturing process selection. For many aerospace parts, investment casting provides

Navigating the Skies: Precision Machining for Aircraft Engine Components

September 4th, 2024

Aerospace parts, especially those destined for use in aircraft engines, are some of the most challenging to machine. The combination of hard materials, high precision, and extensive metal removal, (for mass reduction), demands advanced machine tools and deep machining expertise.

Challenges and Solutions in Scaling Up Investment Casting Production

September 4th, 2024

Most products follow the same lifecycle: production begins with small quantities, ramping-up as demand grows, and finally settling into a gradual decline. Each stage needs careful management if quality, cost and delivery targets are to be met consistently. For parts

Quality Control in Precision Machining: Ensuring Perfection Every Time

September 4th, 2024

If you’re buying precision machined components, you don’t expect problems with assembly or function. Leaks, excessively high or low friction, and fit issues will all be expensive to deal with and could even result in warranty claims. The way to

Quality Control in Investment Casting: Ensuring Flawless Components

August 15th, 2024

Everyone wants to know the castings they receive from their foundry suppliers are correct, but quality is doubly important when the parts are going into high load, safety-critical applications. A particular challenge with castings is that defects can be hidden

Tolerances and Tight Fits: The Role of Precision in Modern Engineering

August 15th, 2024

A worker at an assembly station fits shafts into holes drilled in a casting. Some of the shafts fit loosely and can be tipped sideways while others need tapping into place with a hammer. What’s going on? Were some of

Maintenance Matters: Tips for Extending the Life of Hydraulic Orbital Motors

August 8th, 2024

Hydraulic orbital motors are precision mechanisms with tight internal tolerances. Maximizing life, (and avoiding in-service problems), requires installing them correctly, taking care of the fluid, and not expecting them to work outside their design limits. This blog covers seven important

Importance of Gas Turbine Nozzle Assembly Optimization

August 8th, 2024

Businesses powering industrial gas turbines with natural gas would love to run them at the stoichmetric ratio because that yields the most efficient combustion. Unfortunately, it also yields exhaust gas temperatures over 3,500°F (1,940°C). That’s a problem because components downstream

Cutting Through the Jargon: A Glossary of Precision Machining Terms

August 1st, 2024

The metal parts used in assemblies and mechanisms, from hydraulic pumps and valves to engines and industrial and agricultural machinery, all go through precision machining. This is the process of cutting away metal from a bar, billet, casting, or forging

The Role of Simulation in Perfecting Investment Casting

July 25th, 2024

There’s no place for trial-and-error in the modern investment casting foundry. Industry leaders like Impro use simulation to optimize every aspect of the process, avoiding defects, reducing development lead time, and raising efficiency. Here’s a closer look. The Complexity of

Future Trends in Hydraulic Orbital Motors: What’s on the Horizon?

July 18th, 2024

Hydraulic orbital motors provide high torque at low speed. This makes them the preferred source of rotary motion in many mobile equipment and heavy-duty industrial applications. In common with other industrial and motive power technologies, hydraulic orbital motors continue to