Strategies to Protect Your Products from Wear and Tear

It’s important to work with prototype companies that prioritize your needs and offer expert guidance. HLH Prototypes can provide tailored advice and help you optimize your designs for manufacturability. Our goal is to deliver long-lasting, high-quality products by sharing insights into factors like wear resistance.

Because it affects the longevity and performance of various components — from automotive parts to medical devices — wear resistance is an extremely critical consideration in product design. Factors such as material selection, surface treatments, and operating conditions influence the rate of wear. Understanding these factors and incorporating wear-resistant materials and designs lets you extend your product’s lifespan.

In this blog, we will explore the concept of wear resistance and discuss strategies to enhance the durability of your products.

Understanding wear and its types.

Wear occurs when the material is gradually removed or deformed from a part’s surface due to mechanical force. Prototype companies typically categorize wear into four types:

• Abrasive wear: Occurs when a hard surface or particles rub against a softer surface, causing material loss.
• Adhesive wear: Caused by particles from a material surface binding and going to another’s.
• Surface fatigue: This wear is due to cyclic loading, which creates microcracks on the part’s surface. Thus, the material’s surface chips off.
• Corrosion wear: With corrosion, wear can break down the surface of a part and go deeper into the material.

Ways to protect against wear and tear

Wear resistance indicates how well your products can minimize wear. That makes it a critical quality for determining longevity and service life. Here are strategies to safeguard against wear and tear:

• Choose wear-resistant and high-performing materials
• Use manufacturing technologies that won’t wear down the material.
• Alter the properties of the materials in contact with the surfaces via chemical modification or hardening.
• Lubricate parts adequately with the right products.

Craft wear-resistant parts

Prototype companies can help you test your products for wear resistance. Choose HLH Prototypes so you can save time and effort. We offer high-quality manufacturing solutions like CNC machining, vacuum casting, and 3D printing to create reliable prototypes. Chat with us here for a free quote, or ask us for a free project review.