Follow every wax tree from die and shell coats to the cut-off casting.

An investment casting begins as wax. It is injected in a die, joined to a runner into a tree, dipped in slurry and stucco several times, dried, dewaxed and fired. Metal is poured into the hot shell, and the shell is knocked off the casting.

Software for investment casting companies keeps a record at each of those steps. It counts wax shot, trees built, shell coats applied and castings cut off, so yield is read from the floor. Share your requirements first.

The wax room injects patterns into aluminium dies, trims and inspects them, and assembles them onto a central sprue. The shell room dips each tree into ceramic slurry, coats it with stucco and lets it dry between coats, with humidity and drying time watched closely. Trees then go to the autoclave for dewax and to the furnace for firing.

In the foundry, a melt of stainless, carbon or cobalt alloy is poured into shells held hot. After knockout, parts are cut from the tree, ground, blasted and sent to heat treatment. Quality staff check dimensions, run penetrant or X-ray inspection and pack the lot. Customers ask for the drawing revision, the heat and the report each time. Every lot.