Using pellet PiM-Like technologies as a complement of PiM process requires to take into account some design rules to optimize the parts to produce for both processes.
As all metal & ceramic parts, PIM & "PIM-Like" parts can be subject to secondary operations such as machining, heat treatments and surface finishing, etc.
The MiM process is an indirect metal application involving different steps. It is important to take this into account from the design phase to achieve the best production cost possible via MiM & MiM-Like processes.
Technical ceramic materials are made up of inorganic and non-metallic phases, with essentially ion-covalent bonds, not completely glassy and generally consolidated by sintering a powdery compact in the form of the desired object.