Aluminum alloy 7075 is well-known for its high-performance structural systems due to its lightweight and excellent mechanical properties. However, its susceptibility to hot cracking and limited ...

Initially, the investment casting process relied on precious alloys to create metallic components for artistic endeavours. Nowadays, it finds applications in various industrial fields such as ...

Tesla, amid falling sales and increasing competition, has abandoned plans for an innovative one-piece gigacasting manufacturing process. Initially aiming to revolutionize manufacturing and reduce ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is close to implementing a new die-cast process that could significantly reduce costs and simplify vehicle ...

Gigacasting confers advantages such as improved car body stiffness, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced assembly time and cost. Credit: Idra Group. In September, Toyota unveiled a prototype of its ...

The Fraunhofer ILT and MacLean-Fogg have jointly produced a complex die casting tool inlay using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M). The specially developed L-40 tool steel enables the additive ...

General Motors has quietly purchased a key gigacasting company that was being used by Tesla in its pioneering process of slashing manufacturing costs by casting large body parts for its vehicles. It ...

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Tesla TSLA-Q has backed away from an ambitious plan for innovations in gigacasting, its pioneering manufacturing process, according to two sources familiar with the matter, in another sign that the ...