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Best Designs of 2008
The most innovative, effective, and impactful cast-metal designs of the past year were recognized during CastExpo ’08.

Making a Big Impression
First impressions count, as CastExpo ’08 exhibitors know. Many of them used big displays of largescale equipment to create that impact, while others emphasized product debuts.

Core Competence, and Much More
Nemak discovers that 3D imaging with laser triangulation offers a more accurate approach to core inspection, at a fraction of the cost and with more efficiency than a two-dimensional view.

Cost-Effective, Jig-Less Tooling Wins Aerospace Orders
SAAB Aerostructures continues to win supply contracts for its composite parts from aircraft builders like Airbus and Boeing orders,...

Intermet Starts Robotic Finishing Cell at Virginia Foundry
New River installation improves “safety, quality, and productivity”

Wescast Opts for Plexus MES
Cast-iron manifold producer adopting Web-based, global enterprise system

3D Monitoring Assures Safe Operation for Automated Foundry Equipment
The SafetyEye package — a 3D camera/sensor and a PC-configurable controller — monitors operations in one or more three-dimensional zones around a manufacturing system.

Raising Productivity, Reducing Risks on the Melt Deck
Combining automation and robotics helps to maximize production, increase worker safety, and conserve energy in the melting process.

Achieving Melt Shop Safety through Automation
Semi-automation of various foundry equipment, both on and off the melt deck, has been available for more than 15 years, including melt...

Handling the Heat of Weighing Foundry Ladles
During melting, small, carefully calibrated amounts of metallurgical additives are poured into the molten metal as it waits in the...

When Will the Robots Take Over?
Whenever a new metalcasting operation is built, the focus for the design centers on the production process: how the metal is melted, poured,...

Anniversary Highlights Rimrock's Progress, Achievements
Over 50 years of technical development and high-quality products, it's people that make a lasting impression for the automation specialist.

Automatic Ladling
FRECH's cold-chamber diecasting machine, the DAK 450M, has an automated feeding system. The machine includes DataDialog control system, which...

Foundry Automation's
Not Just for the Big Kids Anymore

Increasing Si and C Using Graphite-Electrode Byproducts
Silicon carbide is a compound containing 70% silicon (by weight) and 30% carbon. It is commercially produced by reducing silica sand with carbon,...

Loop Mold Handling
Reduces Labor and Increases Process Speed, Quality

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

Flexible Tool Completes Automated Finishing Cell
Programmable robotic deburring brings flexibility and consistency, for more efficient automated finishing processes

Handling Hot and Heavy Loads
With a state-of-the-art manipulator, a foundry worker seated in a comfortable control cab can handle heavy loads and be protected from a hot, noisy, and dusty environment.

Automation: "Intelligent" Robotic Handling
Robots that need no counterbalance, can be mounted anywhere, with a small footprint.
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