From the Editor Technology Transfer–Kinetic Energy Many of you are familiar with the AFS
Howard Taylor Award. It was established in 1974 to recognize a paper presented at the annual Metalcasting Congress that has the greatest long-range technical sig- nificance in the field of cast metals tech- nology. This award is intended to encour- age technical excellence, and to recognize work that lifts the sights of our industry to the future. While all papers published and presented at the Metalcasting Con- gress are eligible for the Howard Taylor Award, it is not awarded every year. This year represents the 29th prestigious award.
issuance of this In the last few
Applied Research Award
years, the AFS Division Council realized that just publishing and presenting valuable information does not guarantee that the technology will be implemented (it could be termed Potential Energy). Therefore, last year, AFS initiated a new technical award called the Applied Research Award. It was established to annually recognize
the Principal Investigator of an AFS funded research project whose research and technical developments have been transferred to the metalcasting indus- try and are being actively applied on the factory floor. Highest ratings are given to those research projects that have directly addressed pressing tech- nical problems faced by metalcasting facilities, quickly transferred into shop floor applications and are most likely
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to result in lasting benefits for a leading segment of the metalcasting community and the industry as a whole.
research projects as well as the companies that collaborate with them to transfer re- search and technical development to the
Kinetic Energy—the motion or action
converting that potential to something that works on the metalcasting floor.
The AFS Applied Research Award is open to any AFS-funded research and development project that has been com- pleted, and the technology made available to the industry. To be considered, projects must have been complete for at least one year to a maximum of five years. Project results must have been presented to the industry through various AFS technol- ogy transfer venues such as Metalcasting Congress presentations, AFS sponsored conferences, Cast Metal Institute classes or AFS cooperative ventures with other industry associations. Prior to this year’s award, the AFS Divi- sion Council decided to include one other group when we recognize the winner of the AFS Applied Research Award. We re- alized that to obtain Technology Transfer, you need that link, a true partnership be- tween the researcher and companies that use the technology. To that end, the AFS Applied Research Award will recognize the Principal Investigators of AFS-funded
Thomas Prucha
Editor International Journal of Metalcasting AFS Vice President of Technology
tprucha@afsinc.org
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metalcasting industry and actively apply the research on the plant floor. We believe this recognizes the true “Kinetic Energy”— the motion or action converting that potential to something that works on the metalcasting plant floor. Shown in the photo on this page is the actual award, which signifies this transference of knowledge and technol- ogy, as some would say “book learning”, into a vessel to cast a brighter future for our industry.
The mission we have at the IJMC is similar—to lead the transfer of research and technology for the global metalcast- ing industry. This issue highlight’s tech- nologies like process and simulation mod- eling that are being implemented to solve theoretical problems as well as improve casting quality, process efficiency and the profitability of our industry. We hope that all these actions will help
to move our industry forward and back to work—Kinetic Energy.
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