Engineering & Tooling

5-axis Vertical Die Sinking Center

ENGINEERING & FORGE TOOL (DIE) FABRICATION

Aluminum Precision Products utilizes the most advanced engineering platforms for solid modeling, tool design and metal flow simulation in the develoment and fabrication of forging tooling.

We are capable of receiving solid model part designs in virtually any format, translating or transferring them to our platforms and designing the optimum tools for the most economical forging approaches. In addition, we integrate our tooling design and forging simulation with our 4 & 5 axis CNC die sinking centers for accurate rapid sinking of the tooling.

Our engineering personnel are available for co-located or concurrent engineering activities with your engineers in the nascent stages of design development, thus precluding the many changes and developmental admustments oftenincident to new forging designs.

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM)

Precision Forging Die Segment with Complex Contoured Surface

Seven CNC die sinking centers make up the backbone of our die manufacturing facility. Our die fabrication capabilities are augmented by in-house EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) for difficult tooling features. APP operates one of the largest in-house forge die shops in the aluminum forging industry in terms of numbers of dies produced.

COMPUTER EQUIPMENT

Engineering, Tooking Design, Machine Programming, and Q.C.

Catia 4.3.2 (1 Seat)
Catia V5R11 (4 seats)
Catia ENOVIA DMU ViewerV5R11 (1 seat)
AutoCAD 2004 (3 seats)
AutoCAD w/mech. desktop 7.0 (3 seats)
Inventor 7 (3 seats)
SolidWorks 2003 (3 seats)
(1) IBM RS 6000 Workstation
(1) DELL 530 1.8GHz (xeon-dual)
(1) DELL 530 2.8GHz (xeon-dual)
(4) DELL 410 Workstation (PIII-933)

MSC Superforge Simulator 2002
HP 755 CM Color Printer
hp 2000 Color Printer
MUTOH XP-500 Pencil/Pen Plotter
Master-CAM 9.0 (8 seats)
Geopak 300
Geopak "C"
VERISURF 9.0 (2 seats)
PC-DMIS 2.3 (4 seats)
VERICUT V 5.3 w/optimization

Forge Die Design using the latest Solid Modeling Platforms