摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture an article by uniformly filling a canister with powder, sealing the canister filled with the powder, and consolidating and sintering it with hot isostatic pressing or the like.SOLUTION: A method of manufacturing an article from powder material comprises forming a hollow canister 58, supplying powder material 66 into the hollow canister from a hopper 68, vibrating the canister by a vibrator 60 and/or rotating the canister about a first axis X and/or rotating the canister about a second axis Y while the powder material is supplied into the canister, and controlling the flow of powder material into the canister, the vibration of the hollow canister, the rotation of the canister about the first axis X, and the rotation of the canister about the second axis Y to control the filling of the canister. |