Engineered Solutions
Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company
Engineered Solutions
Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company
Burgess-Norton invites you to Rethink the materials you consider for your components, and how you expect your suppliers to deliver value.
Rethink what value you expect your
suppliers to deliver...
You can expect Burgess-Norton to bring
value through its innovative G20 and PM First programs. G20 delivers
savings going well beyond the single digit cost reductions you
struggle to achieve year after year on existing components. Through
PM First, you can expect that your new component designs will
maximize the cost and performance benefits which our PM technology
can offer.
Rethink how you expect your suppliers
to deliver value...
You benefit from our training in how to
design components to optimize our PM technology for your
applications. Burgess-Norton engineering resources are made
available to work jointly with your product design and applications
groups.
Rethink when you derive value...
Speed to market is important, but at what cost? You derive value
through Pro-E design, FEA Analysis, and stereo lithography
capabilities to speed your product from design to prototype to
production samples. Your production launch benefits from the speed
of in-house production tooling and tooling design capabilities.
Rethink who can deliver the best
value...
You have a choice of many component suppliers and
technologies. Leading companies in a variety of industries choose
Burgess-Norton and its unique partnership approach to delivering
value through powder metal technology.
Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company helps companies around the world develop innovative cost and time effective solutions like those illustrated in the case studies below. We invite you to leverage our expertise in PM technologies to build your competitive advantage in today's marketplace.
Product: Auxiliary Mainshaft Washer
Challenge: Create a high-density powder metal component capable of replacing low-value fine blanked steel part.
Solution: Use high tonnage press capability and pre-alloyed, sinter hardened powder metal to meet strength and wear requirements.
Result: High-density powder metal component that generates substantial cost savings versus fine blanked steel.
Product: Ball Ramp Plates
Challenge: Replace costly bearing type steel with Powder Metal capable of meeting high contact fatigue requirements.
Solution: High-density component from a pre-alloy, high compressibility powder that could be case hardened to withstand high contact stress.
Result: High value near net shape powder metal part that provided excellent alternative to high cost, low value machined steel components.
Product: Cam Plates
Challenge: Design and produce multi-level powder metal component for use in automatic locking differential application.
Solution: Pre-alloyed sinter-hardened steel pressed with complex tooling.
Result: High strength powder metal component. Complex geometric capabilities of PM optimized component value by eliminating secondary operations.
Product: Super Charger Drive Gear
Challenge: Tight tolerance components requiring high strength characteristics.
Solution: Powder metal component pressed to high density using pre-alloyed powder metal steel. Utilize local densification techniques to achieve 7.3 g/cc density in gear teeth.
Result: Fine pitch, 56 tooth, high performance drive gear that eliminates waste and machining associated with producing this component from wrought steel.
Product: One Way Clutch
Challenge: Large, highly complex component that challenged the powder metal industry.
Solution: Utilize sinter-hardened steel with Burgess-Norton's high tonnage (1670 ton) CNC press capabilities.
Result: Powder metal component with significantly reduced scrap and increased wear properties versus cast iron. An excellent example of powder metal technology creating unsurpassed value.
Product: Belt Drive Sprocket
Challenge: Convert cast iron sprocket with multiple costly machining operations to value added Powder Metal part with increased wear properties.
Solution: Steam treated copper and steel powder metal component pressed to net shape.
Result: Customer realized 20-25% savings from cast iron component, improved wear properties, corrosion resistance.
Product: Crankshaft Timing Wheel
Challenge: Maximize potential value of powder metal technology versus wrought steel stampings.
Solution: Exploit powder metal forming capabilities by pressing lightening holes into components to maximize material savings versus metal stampings.
Result: Component maximizes value for producers of diesel engines used in on highway, agriculture, construction, and power generation applications.
Product: Hydraulic Manifold
Challenge: Convert large iron casting part to powder metal and take advantage of near net shape capabilities of powder metal.
Solution: Using large tonnage multi-action press, part is pressed to near net shape and copper infiltrated to improve wear and compressive properties.
Result: At 32 pounds, one of the world's largest pressed powder metal parts. Significant cost savings resulted from reduced raw material scrap and machining operations.
Product: Hydraulic Piston for Locking Differential
Challenge: Replace costly machined ductile iron casting.
Solution: High strength, five level copper steel Powder Metal part, resin impregnated and precision machined.
Result: Innovative powder metal solution providing high performance and high value.
Product: Power Take Off (PTO) Coupling Assembly
Challenge: High strength component which interfaces between the Power Take Off and hydraulic system to operate construction vehicle implements.
Solution: Burgess-Norton large press capability to produce complex sinter-hardened component requiring no secondary machining operations.
Result: Net shape and high strength benefits of powder metal technology provide significant cost savings versus forged or cast components requiring extensive machining.
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The Metal Powder Industry Federation has consistently recognized Burgess-Norton with awards for its innovative component advancements in powder metallurgy - including consecutive awards in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Challenge: Utilize Powder Metal technology to eliminate multiple components in a steering assembly to facilitate assembly, speed assembly time, and reduce the number of inventoried components.
Solution: Out of the box thinking resulted in the design of two Powder Metal actuator arms incorporating a bevel gear and stop lug. A steam treated black oxide finish provides excellent corrosion resistance for long life and an appealing aesthetic appearance for the end consumer.
Result: Value creation in a variety of ways. By working closely with Burgess-Norton engineering, the customer was able to eliminate two six-piece assemblies. Assembly time and the possibility of misassembled hardware were vastly reduced. The customer was also able to eliminate numerous components from its inventoried stock thereby eliminating procurement cost and improving its cash flow.
Challenge: Burgess-Norton's customer, a leading manufacturer of lawn and garden equipment, required a unique, cost effective component assembly which would allow users of its lawn equipment to disengage cutting blade movement without shutting down the engine.
Solution: Working together, engineers from both companies designed three powder metal components that became the heart of this blade override system. The design was able to take advantage of powder metal's three-dimensional shape capability and the ability to sinter-bond multiple components into a strong, integrated assembly.
Result: The use of powder metal allowed this customer to minimize the number of components needed in this assembly and to realize a cost savings of at least 20% versus competing technologies.
Challenge: When developing an innovative design for a snow thrower steering assembly, Burgess-Norton's customer turned to powder metal technology and to Burgess-Norton for a unique engineered solution. The customer was seeking to develop a steering system which would allow the user to turn the machine with a minimum of effort.
Solution: The result was a multi-piece assembly incorporating four complex powder metal components. The high-strength material recommended by Burgess-Norton easily withstood the severe load testing and tests for corrosion resistance.
Result: This customer was able to develop a steering system which has been widely accepted in the marketplace at 50% the cost associated with traditionally machined components.