CONFERENCE THEME: MATERIALS & SUPPLIES - CHALLENGES FOR THE INVESTMENT CASTING INDUSTRY
Abstracts can be submitted on the following topics: • The Impact of NEW status (materials & supplies) on all aspects of Investment Casting • Investment Casting Market segments - Challenges and recovery path • Strategic Materials - Status, trends and substitutive research • Impact & Applications of AM vs Investment Casting • IC Industries Market Portfolio & reshoring initiatives • Energy and its impact to IC industry • Supply chain & risk transfer • IC applications, prospectives for the future • Impact of complexity of component design abilities into IC manufacturing • Evolution and applications of Industry 4.0 on the Investment Casting process • The manufacture of tooling including 3D printing for prototype and fast make manufacture. • Pattern assembly and new solutions • Optimized gating design based on digital process analysis • Process control and quality analysis for high performance castings – including wax pattern, shell build, melting/ casting processes
• Application of robot technology to reduce process times, costs, and enhanced quality consistency • Material developments – pattern, shell, alloy, etc • Casting furnace design and operation • Advances on dimensional and metallurgical inspection techniques • Advanced management practices and their impact on Cost, Scrap & reduced Time to Market • Advances in competitor industries including MIM, 3D printing, etc • Advance in special processes (i.e Heat Treatment, NDT , Welding , Optical scanning, X Ray metrological inspection, Contact inspection…)
• Ceramic cores technologies and applications
Author Deadlines Abstract Submission Deadline ......................................................15 December 2021
Programme Publication ................................................................25 January 2022 Presentation Submission Deadline ...............................................28 February 2022 Author Registration & Licence to Publish Agreement Deadline ....31 March 2022
Abstracts Structure Abstracts Structure in the following format: 1. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length—not including Title, Author’s name, or Company & Institution’s name. This limit includes all text, spaces, and punctuation.
2. The text of the abstract should consist of a single paragraph. The abstract should be factual and informative. It should adequately summarize the work to be presented, including results and conclusions.
3. Take care to make sure that all italics, superscript, subscript, and any special characters are in place before submitting an abstract.
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