Signicast Corporation - Steel Investment Castings

5 Reasons to Choose Signicast

Investment Casting Process

About Signicast

Continuous Flow Mfg.

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What began as a small, family-owned company has grown into one of the leading investment casting providers in the world. In its almost 50 years of business, Signicast has seen a lot of changes. Chief among them is an ever-increasing ability to help our customers operate fast, more efficiently, and more profitably.

How We Do It

Our state-of-the-art investment casting manufacturing complex in Hartford, Wisconsin is the showcase for Continuous Flow Manufacturing. The entire complex – from top to bottom, one end to the other – is designed to facilitate the efficient, unbroken flow of castings.

In addition, Signicast is also committed to “Complete to Print” manufacturing capabilities. In other words, in addition to providing world class investment casting services, we also perform additional high quality operations, including machining, heat treatment, assembly, painting, finishing, and packaging, all in-house.

This means that an investment casting that typically takes others 12 weeks or longer to do, Signicast does in 5-10 days.

PHASE	PROCESS	TRADITIONAL TIME	SIGNICAST TIME
New Product Launch	Tooling	6-8 weeks	1-4 weeks
	Samples	4-6 weeks	1-2 weeks
	Customer Approval	1-2 weeks	1-2 weeks
	1st Production	8-10 weeks	1-2 weeks
	TOTAL	19-26 weeks	4-10 weeks
Re-Order Production	Order Queue	28-56 days	1-14 days
	Wax	4-7 days	14 hours
	Dip	7-14 days	29 hours
	Dewax	2-5 days	5 hours
	Cast	3-5 days	18 hours
	Clean	3-7 days	12 hours
	Heat Treat	5-10 days	20 hours
	Finish	4-5 days	20 hours
	Ship	1-2 days	4 hours
	TOTAL	8-16 weeks	1-4 weeks
Secondary Operations (incremental to above)	Machine	14-21 days	24 hours
	Paint/Plate	7-14 days	4-120 hours
	Assemble	7-14 days	12 hours
	TOTAL	4-8 weeks	3 days

Six Plants, Two Locations

Signicast operates not one, but five high-quality investment casting plants at two locations in Southeast Wisconsin. At the Hartford complex, each module operates as a plant unto itself, with its own engineering, production, purchasing, and maintenance staff. Heading each team are engineering and manufacturing managers, as well as a plant engineer. With a worldwide reputation for state-of-the-art, automated investment casting efficiency, our Hartford plant has gotten a lot of attention.

The Milwaukee facility has quickly become the global leader in CW2M processing through the development of proprietary pouring techniques. The Milwaukee facility also specializes in soluble wax and ceramic core part production.

Hartford, WI Manufacturing Complex
▪ Includes 5 distinct manufacturing modules
▪ Highly automated investment casting process
▪ Provides true "just-in-time" delivery of medium to high-volume parts

Milwaukee, WI Manufacturing Plant (Brown Deer)
▪ Research, development and rapid prototyping
▪ Soluble wax production and ceramic core
▪ Specializes in investment castings up to 100 pounds
▪ Can pour more than 150 different alloys