Industrial Manufacturing Knowledge Base

A free, open, engineer-written reference for people who design, specify, buy and make metal and plastic parts at production scale. The content is organised as a set of practical handbooks rather than marketing material: process windows, engineering parameters, tooling trade-offs, defect catalogues and sourcing checklists that you can apply on a real program.

Browse the sections below, or jump straight to the engineering reference tables and the downloadable checklists.

What you will find

• Die casting — aluminum and magnesium high-pressure die casting: process control, porosity, gating, thermal management, DFM and cost drivers.
• CNC machining — milling, turning and 5-axis: speeds and feeds, tolerances, GD&T, surface finish, workholding and cost-down DFM.
• Tooling — die casting dies and injection molds: design, tool steels, thermal fatigue, maintenance and tryout.
• Automotive — lightweighting, IATF 16949, APQP/PPAP, EV enclosures and megacasting.
• Materials — aluminum, magnesium and zinc die casting alloys, heat treatment and surface treatment.
• Supplier selection — evaluating and qualifying suppliers: audits, RFQ packages, tooling ownership and inspection criteria.

All articles are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Corrections and new topics are welcome via the repository’s contribution guide.