In the manufacture of a transmission housing tooling insert for one of the world's largest automotive brands, there is a problem.
The often-trusted combination of machining, soldering and gun drilling is not bearing fruit. Though the lead times are long, they'd be tolerable if the part performed well. But it doesn't.
MacLean Additive, together with Fraunhofer ILT, stepped in to provide an alternative. Pooling their respective additive expertise and technologies, they print a solution that matches the cost of the incumbent, addresses its faults, and at 156kg might just be the largest additively manufactured nearly solid die casting tooling insert ever made.
