SMART CASTING® – towards zero defect foundry
Get rid of low value finishing operations.
Gain efficiency, safe costs.
Smart Casting® englobes the knowledge and the technologies developed by AZTERLAN to manufacture as cast parts that need no extra finishing operations of low added value.
With a holistic view over the casting process, Smart Casting® provides foundries:
- Reduction of finishing operations
- Reduction of rejection rates
- Elimination of intermediate stocks
- Stabilization of production processes
- Implementation of predictive control models and automatic actions to ensure the correct performance of the process
- Self –breakage of filling systems and risers.
- Parting line with no need of grinding or press-trimming.
- Improvement of yield: parts with no burrs nor surface defects
- Reduce costs: less operations, less intermediate logistic works, energy efficiency.
- Assured metallurgical quality
- Stabilization of molding sand
- Control and stability of molding machines (DyMetriCS)
- Optimization of desing and manufacturing of cores
- Development of MPC and specific procedures for each production process
- Implementation of procedures and monitorization tools in plant
- Ensurement the metallurgical quality
- Settlement a stable and replicable process
Development of new tooling concepts.
Fitting of tooling.
Scalability of deploy in plant.
“The Foundry of the Future is that of connected processes that is able to take advantage of the knowledge generated inside the company at the same time that it keeps learning from its manufacturing and market experience.
Along with a deep knowledge of metallurgy, Industry 4.0 technologies, advanced data management systems and machine learning technologies have landed in this industry to transform the way castings are conceived”.
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