Alloys in Manufacturing Equipment 

End Uses 

• Slides, guides and bushings in metal working, materials processing and consumer goods manufacturing equipment:
  • mechanical presses,
  • load lifters,
  • heavy load roll tables
  • corrosive environments such as steel production, paper production and naval usage applications

Consider the down time costs: 

The total cost related to a replacement bearing is more than just the purchase price.  Associated costs include:

• Lost production time during inspection, change-outs, lubrication and other maintenance
• Replacement costs for worn mating parts
• Emergency repairs and lost production for unexpected failures

ToughMet^® not only outlasts other materials, it requires less maintenance and the patented EquaCast^® process gives it consistency and reliability that exceeds alloys cast by other methods.

When your manufacturing equipment joints wear too quickly and take a beating, turn to ToughMet^® to extend maintenance cycles, reduce down time, and enhance performance.  In field applications, bearings and equipment components made of ToughMet enable manufacturing equipment to last longer between maintenance cycles leading to less downtime and greater capacity due to reduced wear damage on the moving parts.

Case in Point:

ToughMet Alloy Handles Pressing Issues: ToughMet's use in extrusion press ways

Why Brush Wellman’s ToughMet Alloy?

Beyond manufacturing equipment, Brush Wellman’s ToughMet^® is also used today in Agricultural, Aerospace, Construction, Mining, Off-Highway, On-Highway, and High Performance Racing equipment because of its unique combination of properties, its excellent quality, and its consistent reliability. ToughMet is available in rod, bar, plate and tube forms, and demonstrate:

• High tensile, compressive, shear, fatigue, and corrosion fatigue strength combined with good ductility. Brush Wellman alloys are produced to engineered tempers specially designed for specific mechanical needs.
• The highest resiliency in commercially available bearing materials.
• High hardness, excellent wear resistance and cavitation erosion resistance.
• Resistance to chloride stress cracking and pitting.
• Non-galling/non-seizing to metals such as austenitic stainless steels, nickel, titanium and aluminum alloys, and HVOF coated steels.
• Excellent machinability.
• A stable coefficient of friction when mated with other materials over a wide range of speeds and loads.
• High fracture toughness and fatigue crack propagation resistance, from cryogenic (see Design Center) to elevated temperatures. Unlike steel, there is no ductile/brittle fracture transition behavior.

Benefits of Using Brush Alloys in Manufacturing Equipment
Capital and operating costs connected with manufacturing are very high, consequently, delays or accidents from equipment wear, malfunction, or failure can be economically damaging in terms of maintenance, downtime and part replacement.

Functionality and reliability of critical equipment is an absolute necessity and requires the best material. Brush Wellman alloys are used where no other materials will succeed. Engineers choose Brush Wellman alloys to solve these challenges because Brush Wellman has decades of experience and unsurpassed technical knowledge of the characteristics and applications of its alloys.

Major mobile and off-road equipment manufacturers are discovering how Brush Wellman alloys enable exciting new designs of highly-productive machinery, and at the same time, reduce the risk of failure of machinery and equipment in the field. The same is proving true for manufacturing equipment.

Brush Wellman alloys reduce the wear rate of moving parts in machinery and protect expensive components from wear damage. Critical tolerances and clearances of parts remain intact much longer. Wear rates can be reduced significantly to the point where operators have proven an extension of the useful life of their machines or an extension of the time elapsed between maintenance cycles. Lower wear rates also provide critical margins of safety in equipment used for a wide range of procedures and processes. Wear rates are reduced by significant amounts, which creates real value for customers. Twenty-fold decreases in wear rate of critical bearing and bushing clearances are not uncommon.

Components made from Brush materials are economical to acquire because of the ease with which they may be obtained or fabricated. Brush alloys are readily available worldwide from both company-owned service centers and independent distributor partners.

Technology, products, service, and value are all available worldwide from Brush Wellman Inc. and its distributors. Contact us for more information!