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Discover what MIM could do for you: Explore award-winning parts from the 2023 PM Design Excellence Awards Metal Injection Moulding is one of the most capable manufacturing processes for small precision components, yet it is also one of the least well known. MIM parts are everywhere, from smartphones to watches, cars to aircraft – but these examples are rarely noticed by those outside of the industry. Here, we present the 2023 award-winning MIM and sinter-based AM parts from the Metal Powder Industries Federation's Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards. These examples offer an insight into the technology, as well as the opportunity for product designers and engineers to consider how they might use MIM in their own projects.
The MPIF’s 2023 PM Design Excellence Awards saw ten Grand Prizes and fifteen Awards of Distinction presented to winners across three process categories: conventional press and sinter Powder Metallurgy, metal Additive Manufacturing and Metal Injection Moulding. The winners are excellent examples of the diversity of PM, ranging from applications in vehicles to medical devices and electronics. They were praised by the judges for being able to meet critical requirements while competing with other technologies. In this report, we highlight the winning parts produced by MIM and metal Additive Manufacturing. A large number of award winning parts produced by ‘press and sinter’ PM are covered in the Autumn 2023 issue of PM Review, available to download from www.pm-review.com.
and San Antonio, Texas, USA, in the Hand Tools/Recreation category for a MIM 17-4 PH stainless steel component for a keeper release used in a sub-assembly for safety door locks (Fig. 1). This 60 mm long part has a square central crosssection with rectangular blocks at each end as well as a ‘h’ shaped
projection part way along the central section. The part is moulded in a multi-cavity tool in which a side core covers the ‘h’ profile and another side core from one end covers the hole profile. The part is used in safety door locks and needs to withstand frictional forces and wear and tear.
Grand Prizes HAND TOOLS/RECREATION Indo-MIM Pvt Ltd. A Grand Prize was awarded to Indo-MIM Pvt Ltd., Bengaluru, India,
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Fig. 1 Indo-MIM Pvt Ltd.’s keeper release, received a MIM Hand Tools/ Recreation Grand Prize (Courtesy MPIF)
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