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Spokane Industries, a family-owned company established in 1952, is a steel foundry, metal products and precision castings facility in Spokane, Washington. Spokane Industries serves customers in many industries from aerospace, construction and agriculture, to trans- portation, aggregate processing and manufacturing. Customers are not just coming to Spokane to buy castings, but they are coming to solve problems. With that in mind, experience, expertise, ef- fort and the latest technology, including MAGMASOFT®


Of the four capabilities that make up Spokane’s license with MAGMA®


,


namely filling simulation, solidification simulation, heat


treatment and stress


analysis, Spokane utilizes all of these processes to the fullest extent, including micro segregation simulation. Groz- danich points out, “In the last 10 months, on the dozen or so new projects we have put out, all but one or two were quality parts on the first run. Our time to first quality part has been greatly reduced.” Jolin adds, “Being able to simulate the


process optimization software, is used to differenti-


ate Spokane Industries in the marketplace. By introducing MAGMASOFT®


to the company, Spokane quickly saw


how the software’s capabilities of simulating the entire casting process start to finish, was not only an invaluable engineering tool, but a tool that impacted the entire business. CFO Ken Vorhees reported, “Having MAGMASOFT®


has improved our ability to reduce the number of samples and bring quality products to market faster through meeting specifications, tolerance and metallurgy, most often on the first run.” Foundry Divisions President, Tyrus Tenold, adds, “This is a very powerful tool giving us the ability to virtually see the entire casting processes before we have invested significant time and materials. We now catch problems before they become problems. By the time we are ready to run the part, we have confidence we will have a quality part in the first run, in most cases.” Using the software to run detailed process optimization for the entire casting process enabled Spokane to catch process issues anywhere in the casting process before the first actual run. The software enables them to catch potential problems with a casting before the part even hits the foundry floor and resolve them faster than any competitor without this technology could.


Having now had the MAGMASOFT® license for 2 years Spokane


has seen a significant change in their entire casting process. Rod Grozdanich, Technical Director, states, “We use the software to help customers with refining their designs as well as converting weldments into castings. Being able to simulate the entire process helps a lot in that regard.” The software being one of the foundry’s business tools has helped them support their selling point that they are more cutting edge and in the lead group with the latest technology and equipment.


Antonio Melendez, Design Engineer, points out, “By having MAG- MASOFT®


, we find that our customers expect more of us. We are


confident that we can deliver and have always lived up to and exceeded the challenges our customers have given us.” He adds, “It has become common that when we go back to a customer with a design change that effects them, costs them more money, like adding a riser, they want to know why. MAGMASOFT®


gives us that credibility and additional support.”


David Jolin, Quality Assurance Manager, says, “We do see both current customers and potential customers requiring that we run the casting through a solidification program. There have been times where we have been directly told that in order to be awarded a particular job, we need to show them simulation capability. We are seeing this as a requirement, more and more.”


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entire casting process has significantly fixed our shrink issue, which was quite a struggle from my end before MAGMASOFT®


.” Melen-


dez offers, “One of the main advantages of the software is one can see roadblocks before they actually happen and can compensate for them, specifically with predicting the distortion of the casting and other issues that might arise before we actually build it.”


At this foundry, it’s clear that their use of process optimization software is yielding benefits across the entire business environment, from design through material use, production through part valida- tion and in differentiating Spokane Industries from its competition. The result is more work being processed more efficiently, with the plant’s capacity utilization being much higher and more profitable, according to Spokane personnel.


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