Weekly Update – November 8, 2011
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This Week's Metalcasting News Review
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Grede Holdings to Buy Paxton-Mitchell
The ferrous foundry group is acquiring a ductile iron and gray iron foundry and machine shop in Omaha, NE, that produces a range of pump and valve bodies and housings, flanges, mounting brackets, and similar castings for agriculture and construction machinery and equipment.
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SinterCast Takes First Order from Japan
Toa Koki Co. Ltd. will be the first Japanese foundry to install SinterCast Ltd.’s process control technology or compacted graphite iron production, following an order for the developer’s Mini-System 3000. Toa Koki manufactures diesel engine parts for industrial machinery and marine vessels, and plans to use the SinterCast system for series production and product development.
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Robotics Technologies Making a Difference
It’s a good time to be supplying robots for metalcasting. Developers and suppliers of automation technologies agree that there is exceptionally strong demand from foundries and diecasters for new and updated robots. “A lot of it has to do with the resurgence of the auto industry,” explained Rimrock Corp. vice president and general manager Jerry Osborne, “in particular for structural components made from aluminum.”
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REB Blog: Stick to the message
This is the way to conduct a meeting: Give the audience what they need. Let them set the time. It may not be "marketing," but it is highly effective communication.
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Updated CFD for Multi-Core Processing
FLOW SCIENCE INC. released an update to the distributed memory version of its primary CFD software product. FLOW-3D/MP v4.2 includes hybrid parallelization incorporating MPI and OpenMP architecture, and according to the developer it offers users “a substantial increase in performance, with scaling to as many as 256 cores and runtime improvements of as much as 60x over the comparable FLOW-3D release.”
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Offshoring vs. Reshoring: Which Strategy is Less Costly?
The past several years U.S. manufacturers have had to argue against the perception that domestic manufacturing was too costly. With rapid changes in the economies of developing countries and increasingly unpredictable global supply chain, that trend is changing. OEMs need to calculate all costs of offshoring, including the cost of risk. Click here.
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