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Evaluation of a Low-Cost Material Extrusion Printer for Investment Casting Applications
Tom Mueller Mueller Additive
Manufacturing Solutions
Tom Mueller is the founder and president of Mueller Additive Manufacturing Solutions, a consulting company focusing on metal casting applications of additive manufacturing. He has been involved in 3D printing applications for more than 30 years. He led the first beta site for stereolithography at Baxter Healthcare in the late 80s. He then went on to found two 3D printing service companies.
One of those
companies, Express Pattern, was sold to 3D Systems in 2010. He worked for 3D Systems as Director of Business Development focusing on metal casting applications and later for Voxeljet as Director of Metal Casting applications. Tom has published more than 50 technical papers and journal articles related to 3D printing
Fundamental Analysis into Properties Affecting Investment Casting Shell Strength
Gavin Dooley is the group technical director of REMET®, with responsibility of Quality, R&D and New Product Development. Gavin earned his PhD entitled “Shell Improvements for the Investment Casting of Orthopaedic Implants” from the University of Birmingham in 2016. He has gained over 10 years investment casting experience as a senior process and materials engineer within a medical device foundry and
with REMET. Gavin also completed an MBA with the Open University in 2019. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gavin led the rollout of a 5-part webinar series covering many topics of investment casting to American, European and Asian customers which was well received. Gavin has presented in over 12 investment casting conferences throughout the world in the last decade.
applications. He holds BSME and MSME degrees from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Foundry Society and the Investment Casting Institute.
Tom is a member of the American He chairs two committees of the
AFS; the Investment Casting Committee and the Expendable Pattern Committee of the newly formed Additive Manufacturing Division. In 2019, Tom received the Ray H. Witt award from the AFS which recognizes significant contributions to the metal casting industry. Tom is also active in the Investment Casting Institute as a member of its Additive Manufacturing Committee. He also teaches a section of the ICI’s Investment Casting Certification Course.
Gavin Dooley PhD REMET UK, Ltd.
Vacuum Induction Melting Process Optimization In Precision Investment Casting Furnaces
Iñaki Vicario Consarc
14 ❘ September 2020 ®
Iñaki Vicario is the Casting Technology Specialist of Consarc Engineering. He belongs to the Technology Group of Consarc dealing with technical developments, and customer technical support. He has almost 13 years of experience in the aerospace industry, specifically in investment casting technology as a foundry process owner. He has also large
experience in other metallurgical processes, such as vacuum heat treatment (10 years of experience in AMS 2750), VIM process for Ni based alloy manufacturing, HIP and gas phase aluminizing. Mr. Vicario has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of the Basque Country in Industrial Engineering, specialized in Manufacturing Technologies.
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