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Traditional cleaning methods can involve a lot of time-consuming disassembly, be ineffective, costly, involve environmentally harmful cleaning methods, and cause damage to expensive tooling and equipment. This presentation provides details for attacking and reducing the costs associated with cleaning applications in the foundry industry. More importantly, it will help participants position their companies for increased profitability.
In this recorded webinar, learn about in situ cleaning with environmentally friendly non-destructive dry ice. Cold Jet’s Environmental Cleaning and Surface Preparation Systems utilize high speed MicroParticles of dry ice to clean and prepare patterns, core boxes, shell molds, permanent molds, and other tooling resulting in less down-time, a better clean, higher quality parts, improved tool utilization, and longer asset life.
Considering the rigid materials used in metalcasting, one of the serious challenges many facilities face is the damaging effects of repetitive and extended use of pneumatic hand-held tools. Robotic machines serve as a means to a safer, more worker-friendly operation with far-reaching improvements in productivity.
This sponsored webinar, led by Peter Bigwood, vice president of sales, Brokk Inc., provides educational information and quantifiable results, explaining how remote-controlled equipment boosts productivity and increases safety for foundry personnel. The machines allow operators to stay out of harm's way while easily tackling challenging process applications - from the cleaning and de-bricking of furnaces, ladles and cupolas to removing baked-on sand from large castings.
Without carbon there would be no cast iron or steel, as it has been the reducing agent used to liberate metallic iron from its ores since the earliest times. A few tenths of a percent difference in carbon content can have a dramatic effect on the mechanical properties of iron and steel, so its accurate measurement is critical to ferrous metallurgy.
OES using an electric spark source is one of the most popular methods to measure carbon in iron and steel, however, this method can be prone to errors traceable to the granular nature of the material and the presence of particles of “free” carbon in the form of graphite. These errors can be overcome by careful sample preparation techniques, but a high degree of skill and experience is required to achieve reproducible and reliable results.
In this sponsored webinar, Dan Soisson, Field Product Manager, discusses new developments in OES technology to detect and analyze suboptimal samples to achieve results comparable to “total carbon” measuring techniques such as combustion analysis. Techniques and methods will be explained for detection of “free” carbon in the sample to help make the process more efficient.
With sales doubling in the last six years, Lodge Manufacturing Co. is rising to the challenge of fulfilling customer cravings for cast iron cookware. Read more in the December 2015 issue of MODERN CASTING.
AFS hosted more than 400 students, neighbors and local dignitaries in an open house Oct. 2 at its headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill. National Manufacturing Day is an annual event with the aim of encouraging students to pursue careers in metalcasting.
A small green sand nonferrous job shop answered the pull of customer demand with its first automatic molding line and sand system.
This video highlights the main structural aluminum die castings designed for the Ford Fusion Concept Car to reduce weight for lower emissions.
Workforce training and development is a must for any organization hoping to be a world-class manufacturer. Those companies that excel in this area are far more likely to achieve world-class status for their operations. So where do you fit in- are you already world-class or working towards it? Join us as Jennifer Head, director of education for the AFS Institute, explores the connection between training and development and world-class status, and look at concrete ways you can improve your training and development programs.
Tom Kayser teaches how to identify and implement cost reduction opportunities with your castings. Tom has a systematic approach and a check list he shares. It doesn't matter if you buy, sell, design, machine or assemble castings you will benefit from this webinar.
Tom has been pricing castings for Osco Industries for over 15 years and has a passion of working with his partners to identify ways to lower cost.