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Investment casting offers considerable design freedom, but unfamiliarity with the process led to a decrease in request for quotes.


tools available today, collaborative design with OFC can be accomplished quickly and effectively. With the necessary engineering resources in place, OFC


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began to formally promote a free concurrent engineering service to customers and potential customers. Much as OFC discovered with IC-101, it took longer than anticipated for customers to begin to avail themselves of this new service. Today, customer requests for collaborative engineering sup- port are received each day and, as the benefits are so great, OFC believes this service will continue to grow. Concurrent engineering provides an ancillary benefit. Tese


interactions also advance the design skill of the parties involved. To provide customers even greater access to technical infor-


mation, OFC has revised the focus of its website from being a simple sales tool to becoming an engineering resource. Its website now contains a downloadable investment casting design guide and also is populated by a series of blogs that expand on various casting related topics. Te design guide and blogs are both frequently updated from feedback received from students of the IC-101 and IC-201 classes. As a result, the OFC web- site has more than doubled its traffic. Te investment casting design guide is based upon


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the lessons being taught in IC-101. As with IC-101 and IC-201, the purpose of the design guide is to inform and not promote. OFC attempts to stay “industry neutral” so the core of the guide is based upon industry standards. It encourages customer engineers to consult with a metalcaster to deter- mine if there are any cost or manufacturability ramifications


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