editorial E
Use Your Resources
into a cast part started with a visit from a metal casting supplier. T is makes sense. As much as you know about your part’s function, requirements and application, the metal caster understands the capabilities and advantages of casting and how to achieve them.
I ‘‘ My husband and I are in the process of
Our mission is to share ways to make the metalcasting process more accessible. This is refl ected in our name Metal Casting Design & Purchasing.”
remodeling our kitchen. We both know how we want the kitchen to look and function for our needs as a family. But neither of us are handy or skilled in design, so we worked with a contractor who showed us how to achieve our needs and even introduced ways to improve function that we hadn’t even thought about. You probably know some parts in your shop
would be more cost-effective if produced in a different way, but have little time to explore what process to use and how to adjust the design or calculate the savings. This is where the metal caster—your own kitchen contractor—comes in to help.
As helpful as a list of signs might be (we off er
several on page 18), the most important resource for converting a part to metalcasting is a metal casting supplier. Many deal with changing designs from assemblies to single cast parts regularly. This type of information is the cornerstone
of why the magazine exists. Our mission is to share ways to make the metalcasting process more accessible and help you weigh when it
6 | METAL CASTING DESIGN & PURCHASING | Mar/Apr 2017 Previous Logo New Logo
T ank you for your readership, and as always, please share your stories and comments.
n so many stories we write about in Metal C asting Design & Purchasing, the spark to convert a component or assembly
is the right manufacturing method (or when it is not). This is reflected in our name Metal Casting Design & Purchasing. Our cover has a new look this issue. In order to better establish our goal of providing content to help designers and purchasers create and source cast metal components, we have updated our logo to emphasize this. It is a reminder to our readers, and us, as editors, that YOU are our audience and our content should always be chosen with the intent of helping you do your job well.
manufacturing not). This is Metal Casting
Shannon Wetzel, Managing Editor
If you have any comments about this editorial or any other item that appears in Metal Casting Design & Purchasing, email me at
swetzel@afsinc.org.
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60