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Picking Up The Pace of Change
Rapid prototyping and its progeny, “rapid manufacturing,” continue to fire the interest and spur improvements in metalcasting, and through the industrial supply chain.

Ashland Plans to Merge Casting Solutions into Global JV
New organization would unite ACS with related units of Süd-Chemie

Advances in Lost Foam Casting
CAD software gives casting designers a fast and effective method for coordinating their proposals with foundries, pattern makers, and tool builders, incorporating comments and suggestions, selecting locations for gates and adding risers — all before any production decisions are finalized.

Laser Scanning Savings Tooling Costs
Grede Foundries Inc. operates eight ferrous foundries (gray, ductile, and specialty iron, and stainless steel castings), and maintains...

Simulation Goes Back to the Drawing Board
The assignment: Reverse engineer a railroad tamper casting based on 40-year-old drawings that don’t come close to matching the actual...

Top New Functions in Simulation: Better Quality Films
The objective of casting simulation is to use computer science to design a casting process — before expensive patterns are made,...

Rapid Casting Technology is Critical to "World's Most Expensive Production Vehicle"
Advanced Technology & Design developing designs for DiMora's 1,200-HP Engine

Investment Casters Show How it's Done
As the Investment Casting Institute prepares for its 55th Technical Conference this month, the process and the producers are enjoying notable success, both with their products and their performances.

Better Quality Films
Top New Functions in Simulation

Simulation Goes Back to the Drawing Board
A complex casting designed 40 years ago gets reverse-engineered, inspected, and recreated with digital ingenuity.

Advanced Simulation Saves Time, Headaches
Finite-element simulation is critical to cost-reducing efforts in metalcasting, and to shortening lead times for mold development while improving...

Optimizing Investment Casting by Computer Simulation
Producing high-quality components at reduced cost and with shorter development time is possible, and the best approach is to use simulation as a concurrent engineering tool, not for process verification.

Advanced Simulation Saves Time, Headaches
A new version of an established finite-element simulation program promises accurate modeling of various casting processes and alloys.

Software Automatically Converts Toolpaths from 3- to 5-Axes
Deep cavities, high-surface quality are no hindrance for Sescoi

Need to Know: Robotic Cells Promise Higher Efficiency …
… for Machining Permanent Molds

Virtual Mold Design
As the expectations rise, fettling systems get more productive, flexible, and precise in the task of cleaning high volumes of castings.

Simulation: Predicting the Process
The challenge to modeling accurately the filling of sand cores and molds is that the motion of both air and sand is important to the filling behavior

Need to Know: Casting Simulations Times …
Drastically Reduced With Parallel Processing

Lufkin Industries Adopts MagmaSoft “Iron Micro-Modeling”
… helps resolve a series of casting defects

CAD/CAM Software Boosts Product Development Rates …
for Golf Club Manufacturer
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