Engineers often have an important decision to make when they design and source a metal part: Should it be machined or die cast? In the past, a cursory review of production volumes, tolerances, ...

Tesla's Gigapress supplier IDRA shared the picture of a smaller die-casting machine that is specialized in producing electric motor rotors. The contraption was painted in the same colors as the ...

After the presentation of the Model 3, it seems the Model Y did not get that much love from the audience. But it surely got it from Tesla. The compact SUV may be the first Tesla product to have not ...

Metso has launched a fully electric Anode Weighing and Casting Machine, which incorporates the latest Outotec Casting Control system with self-diagnostic and machine intelligence capabilities, to ...

A 9,000-ton Giga casting machine is set to be released soon for Tesla by IDRA. IDRA Group is a Tesla supplier that provides them with ultra-large Giga presses. Recently, IDRA posted a video of the ...

Tesla has announced that it started operating what is believed to be the “world’s largest casting machine” at Fremont factory. As we previously reported, Tesla has made some significant casting ...

A new drone flyover of Tesla’s massive new casting machine, which is apparently the biggest in the world, shows new casted parts outside. Last month, we reported on Tesla installing what is believed ...

Synthetic-quartz-composite mixtures cast to tolerance and use less energy than casting iron. The dark days of energy-hogging, poorly toleranced cast parts are over. A new casting method dampens ...

Investment casting has gained rapid acceptance because of the substantial savings it can provide over alternative manufacturing methods. Near-net-shape investment castings save material, eliminate ...

[Aurelio] wrote in to tell us about the smartCaster, an “Open source automatic roto-casting machine.” For those of you not familiar with roto-casting, or rotational molding, it’s a process whereby ...