Tip for Problem 3

Which casting process (of the ones discussed in class) would you use to produce the part shown below? Assume you have a one year contract to produce 3500 parts per month and that a small amount of finish work to be done by the customer is acceptable.

To help you prepare the answer consider the following.

• What is casting?
• What is required to make a good casting?
• How do these processes allow one to make a good casting?
• How are the processes similar?
• How are the processes different?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
• Which casting processes would you automatically reject? Why?
• A small amount of finish work means that the cast part can be further processed so that the required dimensions are achieved, but that this further processing will not be extensive.
• You may cut, paste, and edit any part of problem 1 or problem 2 which is relevant.