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68th Annual Technical Conference & Exposition AGENDA
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021
3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. REGISTRATION 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. WELCOME RECEPTION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2021
8:00 a.m. - 8:10 a.m. WELCOME INTRODUCTION
8:10 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. 2021 Annual Awards Ceremonies: Intern Scholarships, Innovator of the Year, Annual Casting Contest, Cast in Steel, ICI Intern Project Russ Gallagher, ICI Director, Bescast, Inc. Russ Rosmait, PH.D., ICI Academic Advisor, Pittsburg State University Raymond Monroe, Steel Founders’ Society of America
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Paper No. 1: Process Control Standards for Investment Castings Nip Singh, ICI Director, S&A Consulting Group As Process Control is very critical to our manufacturing of Investment Castings (IC) worldwide, we would like to involve all sectors of IC in all countries. This panel will present the current status of the Process Control Standards (PCS) and also will detail how casters can start using this ICI benefit. The task force on PCS, a subgroup under Education Committee has made considerable strides since our last presentation at ICI 67th Conference in 2020. Training program for surveyors (internal/external) certification was developed by the core team, tested, and now being uploaded on Tune’Em platform for certification. This training program was considered very crucial and necessary for the success of PCS acceptance from foundries. A survey operating team was split out from core PCS team for streamlining of day-to-day operation of PCS. The details of operating and continued core team functions will be detailed by the panel. It is expected that some foundries will share their experience with PCS so far, and PCS core team members are expected to join the panel to answer any questions.
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Paper No. 2: The Integrated Casting Order Network (ICON) Jerrod Weaver, Non-Ferrous Founders’ Society The Integrated Casting Order Network (ICON) is an online B2B portal that identifies sales opportunities available from the Department of Defense, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), and other federal procurement agencies. The ICON program directs government bid requests which require a metal casting to foundries that either have existing tooling for that part or have the right combination of material and process capabilities to manufacture the required component.
Since October 2018, ICON users have received casting sales opportunities worth more than $1.4 billion dollars and have been awarded more than $800 million dollars in actual contracts.
NFFS is excited about the release of our improved ICON program, and we look forward to continuing to serve this country’s warfighters and the foundries that support them.
10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:20 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Paper No. 3: Shell Drying – Effect of Ambient Conditions Upon Drying & Shell Properties Chris Whitehouse, 3M Technical Ceramics
Shell drying was studied as a function of ambient room temperature and relative humidity at a fixed air speed but with oscillating movement. In a nod to the 1998 water-based shell drying paper by Snow and Scott, the principle experimental technique for drying was automated weight loss measurement. Shell temperature changes with evaporative cooling under four different temperatures (65/ 75/ 85/ 95F), three different relative humidity values (35/ 50/ 65%RH) and two different shell systems were recorded and used to denote dryness or lack thereof. Weight loss, shell temperature and room temperature are presented to help understand the completeness of the drying process for each of the conditions studied. Data sets are presented in 3D topographical map form. With 24 breaks per test condition, all told 1152 MOR test breaks were used to generate this extensive and fascinating data set. The comprehensive data will be presented with some very interesting results and discussion points.
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