2015-16 Supplier Prospectus


MAGMA® MAGMA®


Foundry Technologies, Inc. Foundry Technologies, Inc. is the


industry leading supplier of casting process simulation and optimization software, as well as related education and engineering services. MAGMA®


has been the pacesetter in defining


Christof Heisser President


Mission Statement MAGMA®


Foundry


Technologies constantly strives to achieve a delicate balance between capturing the complexity of the metal casting process, ease-of-use of our tools, and economics. The unique combination of casting process knowledge and simulation competence allows MAGMA to offer a reliable partnership to our customers. It’s here that you’ll discover the meaning of “Committed to Casting Excellence”, a philosophy in which every aspect of simulation is driven by the goal to give our customers a distinct advantage through actively integrating this progressive technology into their operations.


Clients MAGMASOFT® is installed at


over 170 US foundries, which vary in size from as few as 15 to several hundred employees, and casting design centers of large OEMs - and over 1400 companies worldwide.


NEW PRODUCTS: Address


MAGMA Foundry Technologies, Inc. 10 N. Martingale Road, Suite 425 Schaumburg, IL 60173 Ph: 847-969-1001 Fax: 847-969-1003 sales@magmasoft.com


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With our new release of MAGMA5, re- lease 5.3, MAGMASOFT moves optimization to a whole new level. Users can now fully optimize! In the past optimization was done manually… now MAGMA5.3 allows for Autonomous Optimization. MAGMA also announces the release of MAGMAcore and mold (MAGMAc+m). Core related casting defects are a considerable cost factor in the casting process. The increasing complexity of castings leads to more complex cores. The core making process is also challenged by increasing demands relating to emission control and work place safety. The ramp up of a new core production currently requires time consuming and expensive trial and error cycles, sometimes taking weeks. Important


a new direction for the metal casting industry. Its development and use of simulation has provided new insights into the casting process. New methods for optimizing castings and metal casting processes have come from these inno- vative developments. Besides MAGMASOFT’s capability of simulating nearly any alloy and sand, as well as permanent mold casting process, additional modules were specifically developed for the following applications: • MAGMAiron – micromodeling used for correct shrinkage-, microstructure- and mechanical property-prediction in gray, compacted and ductile iron


• MAGMAsteel – simulates convection, segregation and heat treatment in low alloyed steel castings


• MAGMAlpdc – describes the low pres- sure die casting process


• MAGMAhpdc – describes the high pres- sure die casting process


• MAGMAinvestmentcasting – describes the investment casting process


• MAGMAlink – to transfer results to Finite Element Analysis tools


• MAGMAfrontier – autonomous opti- mization


• MAGMAc+m – core simulation


parameters to be considered are: • position, what kind of, and dimensions of nozzles and vents • shot pressure • sand/binder mixture (what sand, what binder, amount of binder). MAGMAc+m expands the utilization of MAGMASOFT’s casting process simulation into the realm of core production. The core making process can be included right at the beginning of the casting development process. The entire process is now virtually visualized. MAGMAc+m will be available as add-on module to a current MAGMASOFT license and also as a stand-alone package. It includes the following capabilities: • considering the core alone • considering the core plus the sand in the shot cylinder


• binder Hardening/Curing Simulation • gassing and Purging for Cold Box cores • heating, Gassing and Drying of Inor- ganic cores


• heating of Hot Box and Shell cores • simulation of the cyclic tempering of the core box for relevant binder systems (Inorganic, Hot Box).


CLIENTS MAGMASOFT® is installed at over 170 US


foundries, which vary in size from as few as 15 to several hundred employees, and cast- ing design centers of large OEMs - and over 1,400 companies worldwide.


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