This guide is aimed at engineers and designers wishing to incorporate advanced technical ceramics, such as silicon nitride and sialons, alumina, zirconiaor silicon carbide into their design.
Often an engineer unfamiliar with using ceramics will want a direct copy of a component that was originally metal, for example, made in ceramic. Very often this is not the best solution and can unnecessarily increase manufacturing costs and even result in the component not working as desired.