15th WCIC Agenda WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2022
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. REGISTRATION – Disneyland Center Lounge
8:00 a.m. – 8:05 a.m. GENERAL SESSION – Disneyland Center Ballroom Greeting
8:05 a.m. – 8:35 a.m. Enablers for Driving Forward a Precision Investment Casting World Class Foundry Carlos Olabe, EICF Executive Director Precision Investment Casting is a technology able to provide solutions satisfying a variety of engineering applications in fields such as Energy, Aerospace, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Bio Medical …etc. improving performance and contributing to social welfare. The industry as we know it today has its origins just at the time of WWII – The developments in 80 years has positioned the industry delivering solutions for the demanding challenges that each different application segment requires, transforming it in a High Technology Industry. Under this scenario what are the key elements necessary to make a Precision Investment Casting Foundry competitive? and what are the enablers to make it a World Class Foundry?
What are the challenges IC must overcome to cope with the evolution in the forthcoming requirements? This paper shall be reviewing those key factors and enablers based on the author´s experience in launching an aerospace brand-new foundry and the analysis and observation of the many different foundries that he has had the opportunity to know and deal with.
8:35 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Casting Industry Megatrends Diran Apelian, University of California, Irvine It is quite clear that in the 21st century we will need to to lightweight our infrastructures,
reinvigorate our efforts
reduce carbon footprint during manufacturing, reduce production waste, and recover post-consumer waste and upcycle. if the 20th century was the century for steel, the 21st century is certainly that of lightweight materials and digital manufacturing. Furthermore, the future of work is evolving with ramifications on the future of the worker. Megatrends in the casting
industry are reviewed
and highlighted
covering transportation, housing and architecture, home furnishings, electronics and appliances, batteries, and fuel cells, and including medical applications. Megatrends in the manufacturing industry from the perspective of societal needs (some known, and others anticipated) will be reviewed. Specifically, emerging areas in net shape manufacturing, recovery and reuse and policy implications, and the influence of data science and blockchain in manufacturing processes will be reviewed and discussed.
9:05 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. Meeting The Challenge, Jack Ziemba, Aristo Cast For a process that’s approximately 6000 years old, it never
ceases to amaze me the refinement that has taken place in the last 15 years. We’ve gone from rudimentary injection molds to a sophisticated tooling in use today. We’ve gone from machinable wax being utilized for one off patterns to the ability to use additive manufacturing equipment to print complex patterns in a variety of materials which are all compatible with the IC process. The advent of metal printing has encroached into the investment casting market. We intend on showing you how to meet the challenge,
head on! As the owner of Aristo-Cast Inc. and a member of the Additive Manufacturing Users Group, we’re going to get that business back using the P.I.C.S. (Printed Investment Casting Shells), a method that revolutionizes the traditional investment casting process. This is accomplished by printing the ceramic shell directly from CAD data, eliminating the need for wax injection molds to create the patterns and the skill to dip the critical early coats of ceramic shell. P.I.C.S. allows even the most complex interior design to be cast successfully.
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