Introducing Zeus Piezoceramics
Zeus Piezoceramics is a new ceramic manufacturing venture from Neptune Sonar, providing PZT components from a facility in Hessle, East Yorkshire.
As many businesses who purchase PZT components will understand, the supply chain for ceramics can be very unpredictable. Neptune Sonar has found a need to start producing its own PZT raw components over the years as the business has been affected by supply chain issues, inhibiting growth and customer confidence, for example...
- Increasing lead-times.
- High costs and NRE charges for low volumes or prototypes.
- Unexpected ceramic product failures on delivery inspection.
- Recovery or re-manufacture time for product failures.
Capabilities
| Shape | From (mm) | To (mm) |
|---|---|---|
| Discs | 20 | 100 |
| Plates | 1 | 80 |
| Bars | 1 | 80 |
| Rings | 20 | 100 |
| Tubes | 20 | 80 |
| Hemisphere | 6.00 | 31.75 |
| Discs | All Sizes | |
- Including Striped Tubes
- Increasing Hemisphere size capabilities with new CNC up to 150mm
- High volume Segment throughput
Advantages
- Short production lead times, 4 to 6 weeks.
- Low cost small production volumes.
- Quality inspection, low failure rates.
- Control of production processes.
- On-time delivery.
- Rapid PZT samples for prototyping and development of transducers and arrays, within 2 to 4 weeks.
- Reducing NRE costs and project timescales.
Neptune Sonar’s delivery performance for its transducer products has significantly improved since its own supply of PZT. It has also managed to reduce the reaction time for new development projects, with an overall reduced NRE cost.
