MCTV AFS Participates in National Manufacturing Day
The American Foundry Society hosted an open house Oct. 3 at its headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill., for local businesses, neighbors, families and students to take part
in a metalcasting demonstration. National Manufacturing Day encourages students to pursue careers in manufacturing. Go to www.
metalcastingtv.com to watch the video.
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Tips for Touring a Casting Supplier
A hypothetical engineer is in the
beginning stages of designing a new product for his company, and the success of the design relies heavily on the use of a cast metal component. A request-for-quote is sent out and the list of prospective casting suppliers is narrowed down to two or three. The purchasing and design team decides to visit the suppliers to make an educated fi nal choice. But the engineer’s design experience is mostly with fabrications and forgings, and he’s unfamiliar with the metalcasting process and its facilities. It’s a scenario that design
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engineers and purchasers are bound to run into at some point. Your fi rst metalcasting facility visit may be intimidating—casting plants are generally hot, often loud and sometimes odorous, and conversations with metalcasters tend to be full of jargon that’s unrelated to any other metalworking industry. However, armed with the right questions, even the greenest of casting designers and purchasers can use their fi rst metalcasting facility visit to make a well-informed assessment. Any visit to a metalcasting facility
can be worthwhile, but the fi rst visit can be the green light for a long customer- supplier relationship or a road sign telling you you’re on a dead-end street. Although every metalcasting
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facility will welcome current and potential customers differently, a design review is a critical part of the visit because it gives you the chance to discuss aspects of the component’s design, as well as base metal price and weight differential, face-to-face.
—Shannon Wetzel, Senior Editor Read the whole article, “Tips for
Touring a Casting Supplier,” at
www.metalcastingdesign.com.
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