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Wheelabrator showcased continuous shotblast equipment for part-specific shotblasting.


• It can be used for pressurized pouring furnaces or for unheated bottom pour ladles to solve temperature drop.


SOFTWARE


Arena-flow, Albuquerque, N.M. Sand Core Engineering Software and Services • The company recently set up a distributor in Germany and has supplied its simulation software to Volkswagen Kolbenschmidt, Neckarsulm, and Honsel, Numberg.


Finite Solutions


Flowcast • The simulation module models how molten metal will flow through gating systems and fill the casting cavity in the mold. It works in conjunction with models created by Solidcast.


• Flowcast has two options for modeling mold filling. One is a quick simulation that makes a few simplify- ing assumptions. The other is a full computational fluid


dynamics simulation that allows the user to view progres- sive temperature, fluid velocity and fluid pressure during the fill from any angle.


Flow Science, Sante Fe, N.M.


Flow 3D • The updated Flow 3D casting simulation software mod- els nearly all casting processes so alternative concepts can be created before the casting process begins.


• New modeling capabilities include thermal stress evolution and fluid structure interaction, sand core blowing and dry- ing, dynamic shrinkage and cast iron solidification.


• Flow Science announced two new customers for Flow-3D Cast are Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and Deco Products.


Magma Foundry Technologies, Aachen, Germany MAGMA5


5.2 simulation software


• The newest version of the simulation software has new process modes for permanent mold, low pressure sand, low pressure diecasting, and hot-chamber and cold- chamber diecasting.


• New module Magma C+M simulates core shooting and blowing and hardening of organic and inorganic cores. It considers all aspects of core production, starting from the core shooter, to calculate the flow of the air-sand mixture based on real shot parameters.


Synchro32 , Gwynedd, U.K.


Shop Floor Data Collection • The new module for enterprise resource planning soft- ware is a touch screen application for work in progress data entry, booking review, automated scrap log, product shipping and analysis, and casting technique sheet. All entries are uploaded to the Synchro32 • Synchro32


database. reported it signed four new customers and final- Flow Science’s updated Flow 3D models nearly all casting processes. 40 | MODERN CASTING August 2011 ized three additional contracts in the week following GIFA.


Photo courtesy of Messe Duesseldorf/ Constanze Tillmann


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