Recently, the special metals department of an oil exploration company contacted Dynamic Flowform. They needed an open-ended, instrument housing made out of a high strength, corrosion resistant material. Traditionally, the piece was manufactured by gun drilling, machining and honing. The customer learned that flowforming is a cold work process and that by flowforming their piece, they could reach the material’s peak mechanical properties. After comparing the previous method of manufacturing and flowforming, they were eager to start flowforming their component. Additionally, flowforming offered the customer the following benefits:
- The starting preform material requirement is one-fifth the length of the existing housing, saving material.
- The component has refined grain sizes from the flowform process.
- Extremely tight tolerances on concentricity, straightness and diameter are achievable through flowforming.
Having now received their finished components, our customer is pleased with the quality of the flowformed part, the cost-savings and the fact that Dynamic Flowform was able to meet their tight deadline.
