Process simulation is the full application of a vast portfolio of data-based and -driven options for pouring better parts, and making metalcasting better.
Free when you register. Managers and executives of North American foundries and diecasters evaluate current business conditions, and give their perspectives on the factors shaping their sector’s activity in the coming year.
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AMRC is a living example of digital manufacturing in action, and bringing new casting technologies into production
Ti melting, casting
Optimizing production sequences
Seeing and moving holograms
Structured light scanner speeds work of documenting dimensional and other conditions for prototypes, patterns, castings
Gray and ductile iron part up to 30,000 lbs.
Take the scanner to the part
Faster data capture, measurement results
Customer relationship management in response to metalcasting users’ requests
Improved project tracking
Better user-interface graphics
New Quick Quote function
Changes in federal workplace-safety reporting requirements seek to “nudge” employers to protect workers against injuries, but there are broader implications.
First deadline: Jan. 1, 2017
OSHA Form 301
Drug testing?
Grainger & Worrall Ltd. worked with Aston Martin to develop the power plant for the luxury automaker’s first turbocharged sports car
Aluminum alloy blocks, heads
Precision sand casting
3D printing cores, molds
More intuitive programming and more responsive, collaborative functions are giving metalcasting operations a new sense of possibilities.
Easier automation
Defining functions and flexibility
One user interface
95% energy savings
X-ray microanalysis program works with scanning electron and transmission electron microscopes to extract essential information
For research, routine analysis
Phase mapping
Spectral match database
ESI ProCAST 2016 enhancements help increase product quality standards, productivity rates
Predict defects without test runs
Dedicated gravity casting workflow
Machine selection workflow for HPDC
As buyers demand ever-higher levels of product complexity and quality, coremaking can significantly affect foundry competitiveness
Cold-box resin options
Avoiding "trial and error"
Matching product to process
