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    Waupaca Foundry
    Grinding castings at Waupaca Foundry, Ironwood, MI.
    Issues and Ideas

    Waupaca Closing Finishing Plant

    Jan. 21, 2025
    Logistics, labor, and freight costs have altered the market dynamics for the Michigan operation, which will cease operations next month.
    GE Aerospace
    An engineer inspects a turbofan engine using Waygate Technologies’ Mentor Visual iQ+ borescope. Waygate and GE Aerospace jointly developed an AI-enhanced version of the device that will be made available to customers through an upcoming software update
    Testing/QC

    How Intelligent is Your Borescope?

    Nov. 26, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence has been coordinated with inspection software for video-assisted optical inspection of turbine engines, to increase defect-detection rates and reduce false...
    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.

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    Jan. 14, 2025
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    Resand Ltd.
    The modular Resand electric sand reclaimer can be installed in four to five months, to clean 1,000 kg of sand per hour.
    Molds/Cores

    Low-Emission Sand Reclamation Drawing Interest

    Oct. 3, 2024
    A sand-as-a-service arrangement and new financing are building the case for Resand’s electric treatment process for regenerating molding sand.
    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.