When it comes to material selection, it really comes down to your part’s function: What is it going to do? What mechanical properties are you looking for? Will it be subjected to high stress or wear? Will your part include fine details (like lettering or your company...

Excess inventory can provide the comfort of a security blanket. If you always have more parts than you need, lead times could not get any shorter. But, consider when you’re a couple parts short for an order when you go to pull inventory on the day of delivery and you...

CASTING DESIGN – THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW A situation we often encounter is our customers completing full design of their parts before contacting us. In their process they have locked in their design and assembly to the point where there is little flexibility to...

We might hold the tools to create high-quality products for our customers, but if our employees cannot use them or feel like they do not contribute, we might as well have nothing. One of our top priorities at Sure Cast is creating an engaging and transparent work...

As your manufacturing volumes remain at high levels, die casting is often the obvious casting process to use. But, most manufacturers don’t recognize when the status quo may be hurting them. Die casting is one of three commonly known aluminum casting processes next to...