Longer Lasting Transporation Components

Understanding the mechanical constraints and the environments that cause wear is critical to engineering the proper wear-resistant parts and components used in transportation applications. Fisher Barton offers unique metallurgy expertise in materials engineering, the wear-resistant properties of various materials, deposition methodologies, heat treatment, and large-scale and precision machining. The combination of this experience makes Fisher Barton a superb partner for component manufacturing.

Automobile

In the automotive sector, several parts require wear resistance due to constant friction, high temperatures and repetitive  usage:

  • Engine Components: Pistons, camshafts, and valves.
  • Transmission Parts: Gears, clutch plates, retaining rings, rods, shafts, and housings.
  • Suspension Components: Control arms, ball joints, tie rods, sway bars, and bushings.
  • Turbo Chargers: Turbine blades and compressor wheels.

Heat treatment,  wear-resistant materials, and coatings help these parts last longer and perform more reliably.

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Automotive Industry - Motion Control

Truck

Thermal Spray Coatings

Fisher Barton is your source for a variety of coatings to meet vehicle-related application challenges. We can customize a solution to handle a combination of challenges, such as the wear, impact, and corrosion issues.

Wheels: In addition to the above mentioned pain points, our coatings can also reduce weight and cost by changing the substrate material to a lighter, more cost-effective material and using a coating to achieve the desired attributes of the part.

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Motorcycle Rear Wheel

Motorcycle

Motorcycle components need to be light, precise, wear resistant, and have thermal protection ensuring durability, strength, and performance.

Wear Coating

  • Shifter Forks: Coating the forks extends the service life and enables faster and more precise shifting.
  • Drive Sprockets (pulleys): Coating aluminum pulleys in a belt-driven powertrain boosts the wear resistance of athe rather soft aluminun-only pulleys.

Additionally, corrosive wear from an acidic or saline environment is eliminated.

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rail car surface engineering

Rail

Friction and Corrosion Coatings

Rail components will experience wear but keeping cars safely moving is essential.  Significant and costly downtime caused by wear resulting from friction, extreme temperatures, high impacts and continuous vibration can be minimized.

Fisher Barton partnered with a leading freight railcar components company to identify an alternate and less costly material for a wear plate.

  • Wear Plates: friction material is sprayed on a Friction Shoe to minimize the swing motion of the freight car.

Our coatings diminish wear due to metal-to-metal contact and friction is inevitable in freight car applications followed by corrosion.

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Manufacturing Expertise

Fisher Barton’s expertise in metallurgy and advanced manufacturing processes can be applied to produce high-performance parts and subcomponents for the transportation industry.

  • Material Selection: Choosing the right materials for specific applications
  • Heat Treatment: Enhancing the properties of metals to increase strength or toughness.
  • Thermal Spray: Applying wear-resistant and thermal barrier coatings.
  • Bronze Pouring: Creating durable bronze components.
  • Precision Machining: Crafting parts with tight tolerances.
  • Large-Scale Turning: Both vertical and horizontal turning for large components.
  • Prototyping and Testing: Our Technology Center tests and prototypes for internal and field testing ensuring the quality and performance you expect.
  • ISO9001:2015 and ITAR Certified

These production capabilities are not limited to the components mentioned above. Contact Us for any part or component in the transportation sector.