Application Assistance

In addition to its mission of research and development, a primary focus at the MPP Technology Center is to use applied R & D to provide application assistance to its customers and operating divisions. Rather than operating as some kind of a powder metallurgy "think tank", the Technology Center constantly examines its activities to ensure that they have a practical benefit for the customer.

An excellent example of this is the Center's work on the improvement of powder metal gears. Normally, the traditional "press and sinter" method of powder metallurgy gear production cannot produce the same level of gears as precision grinding, so the MPP Technology Center is currently working on a process to improve powder metal gears from their current AGMA 8 levels to AGMA 10 or 11. The process also improves surface densification.

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