China has had an unprecedented economic boom within the foundry industry in the past two decades. Lost foam casting technology has gained increasing popularity during this time. In China, about two hundred foundries have lost foam casting operations with total annual casting production of approximately 300,000 tons in 2006. This paper reviews the current lost foam casting industry in China with...

strategic alliance is a cooperation contract between two or more organizations who want to improve their competitive situation and performance through resource sharing. one of the common types of strategic alliances is the alliance between two organizations working in the same industry. one of those industries which alliances occur most likely is the casting industry. in this regard, this resea...

The present work deals with application of DMAIC for minimization of sand casting defects in a process industry. DMAIC approach is justified when root cause of defect is not traceable. At present, global and competitive environment, foundary industries need to perform efficiently with minimum number of rejection in their manufacturing products. For better improvement in the casting quality, fir...

The problem of the prediction of a critical situation during continuous casting in common steelmaking practice is faced through different traditional soft–computing techniques: the task is to divide the data in two classes corresponding to good and bad casting behaviour respectively. Moreover, a novel algorithm, the Model–based method, is presented. The performance obtained by the different tec...

As the competition in market is growing at a very fast pace, one can survive in today’s industrial world by adopting the philosophy of Lean Manufacturing. In order to stay competitive, producing cheaper products at a faster rate Lean Manufacturing would help the industry. This paper represents a case study of Die casting industry. This case study is used to illustrate the steps in implementatio...

Today’s manufacturing industry requires product data management system (PDM) for efficient product development and production. Manufacturing industries must deal with competition, time to market, reduction of the cost of doing business, and rapid development of new services and products. To address these requirements industries must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business an...

Cast aluminum alloys are widely applied for the transportation industry. Alloys with silicon and magnesium as the main alloying elements are the most important of the aluminum casting alloys because of their high fluidity. However, Al-Si-Mg alloys have exhibited medium strength level at room and, especially, at elevated temperature. Recently, new casting alloys with high magnesium and silicon h...

Foundries represent an important sector of the manufacturing industry and these foundry industries in developing countries suffer from poor quality and productivity due to number of process parameters involved in the casting process. Even in a completely controlled process, defects in casting are observed and hence casting process is also known as process of uncertainty which challenges explana...

The use of aluminum alloys are of significant use in industry. Studying of design parameters of such products is important as not much work has been done for optimizing it. The generic formulation involves the flow, velocity, continuity fluid dynamics and shape related issues. The time for filling the mould and shape factor also play major role in performance of the casting process. In this pap...