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    G&W Electric
    G&W Electric rooftop microgrid.
    Issues and Ideas

    With a Microgrid, Plant Powers Forward

    Jan. 7, 2025
    Solar generation and battery storage are helping an Illinois plant ensure backup electrical power, with cost savings and new revenue opportunities too.
    Vgraphic Farao
    Industrial worker in a factory wearing safety gear.
    Issues and Ideas

    Foundry Draws Multiple OSHA Citations, Heavy Fine

    Nov. 21, 2024
    Frazer & Jones faces 27 charges for failing to ensure workplace safety, plus almost $1 million in penalties.
    Investment Casting Institute
    ICI Casting Contest 2024 medley
    Issues and Ideas

    Top Investment Castings of 2024

    Nov. 14, 2024
    The 71st Annual ICI Technical Conference and Exposition included a presentation of the most impactful investment-cast products of the year – cost-saving, timesaving, aesthetically...
    GF Casting Solutions
    A GF Casting Solutions high-pressure diecasting operation.
    Issues and Ideas

    GF Puts Casting Group on the Block

    Nov. 7, 2024
    A strategic reorganization of the Georg Fischer group has landed its precision CNC machine business in the wide portfolio of United Grinding.
    Tinger Omega
    Tinker Omega sand mixing machine.
    Molds/Cores

    Sinto America Adding Tinker Omega

    Nov. 5, 2024
    The Michigan operation will absorb the manufacturing activities for the supplier of sand processing machinery.

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    Jan. 14, 2025
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    ASK Chemicals
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    Melt/Pour

    3DP Filters Improve Process, Quality Control

    Oct. 1, 2024
    There are limits to the filtering potential of sintered ceramic foam, but additive manufacturing produces filters with custom geometries that prevent metal impurities, reliably...
    Intl. Federation of Robotics
    The U.S. automotive sector accounted for one-third of new robot installations in 2023, although the actual number of new units installed fell -15% from the previous year.
    Issues and Ideas

    New Robot Installations Dropped in Latest Summary

    Oct. 1, 2024
    A new annual report reveals that U.S. manufacturers’ industrial robot installations fell -5% in 2023, though the total number of robots in use reached a new peak.
    Norican
    Monitizer | Discover’s alarm functions enhance production control and support inexperienced users. If an issue needs attention, the system contacts different groups of people in different waves, sequentially, depending on how the problem develops, and whether the first alerted group reacts. “If a machine runs outside its ‘green’ operating zone, the supervisor gets alerted,” according to Grede St. Cloud foundry general manager Bart Hoemann.
    Simulation/IT

    Digitalization Cuts Scrap, Saves Costs

    Sept. 19, 2024
    Grede’s effort to scale productivity and performance across the organization has amounted to a large-scale adoption of IIoT capabilities – and the rewards are becoming clear.
    Jill Lehmann | Dreamstime
    Sands through and hourglass.
    Issues and Ideas

    Jack Palmer, 1953-2024

    Sept. 17, 2024
    Jack Palmer brought new ideas and new approaches to foundries worldwide, and his legacy to the metalcasting industry is much more than a nameplate.