To maintain the molding production rate in a foundry it is crucial to have cores available when needed. Molding lines typically run at a higher rate than core production and, as it is normally not cost effective to size the core production to match the molding line speeds, most of the time core shops run longer hours than mold lines. In addition to this, sometimes foundries purchase cores to meet the demand. Either way, there needs to be a means to store cores.

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