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    OCTOBER 2023 Management &Technology: LESS means MORE With the DIDION’ Rotary Lump Crusher/ Sand Reclaimer there is Equipment & Capital outlay Sand & Binder costs Energy consumption Air-Borne Silica Dust Capabilities for Faster Payback Efficiency & Reliability Operational & Maintenance Savings Throughput & Greater Yield Other systems achieve 50% of the required throughput, where DIDION’ often exceeds their rated capacity. By combining Lump Reduction, Scrubbing, Dual Sand Screet Classification, and Metallic Separation significant floor space is saved as well. Era Cee NUN ToS ToL A Ute Patented multi-chamber design Crushes, Scrubs, Separates, Screens, and Classifies Huge savings in sand purchases, disposal costs, and binder Automatic separation of tramp metal and debris Reduces air-borne silica duet for eater, cleaner workplace Highly efficient air-wash separation removes dust, debris, and fines “Most kids want a puppy for Christmas. Cen Cag CT a TRY aa rv t eee en Contents Volume 151 Numbers Closeup ofthe bisected 30-prntedromijet “showing the complenty oft internal design features, E1030. How to Melt High-Tech Alloys p. 10 The heat: and wear-resistance that make refractory metals so essential for high-tech manufacturing also demand technologies that are specially engineered for melting at over 3,000 °C. New Directions in Recycling Foundry Sand p. 12 Process and handling costs, plus metalcasters’ growing sense of environmental liability, are creating an opening for thermal and mechanical processes for recovering spent sand. ACool Way to Manage Heat Stress p.14 Melting and casting copper is dangerous and demanding, but the crews assigned todo that work over 12-hour shifts are staying pretty chill about it. COVER STORY Getting Better at Producing Parts Faster p. 16 Advanced design and engineering have expanded and accelerated everything about the trial-and-error approach to. developing parts for manufacturing. Breakthrough in High- Throughput, Variable Grinding for Castings p. 21 A centuries-old foundry selected a new brand of automated grinding machine that introduced the simplicity and reliability it required for finishing a wide range of cast parts. FOUNDRY MANAGEMENT & TecHNoLoGY _2 Suma PaRKORIE, SUITE300 a 234/486-0200 EDITORIAL STAFF EprTor Rovert BROOKS rbxooks@endeavorb2b.com ASSOCIATE EDITOR RYAN SECARD ‘secord@endeavorb2b.com Arr Dinecton DzJAHSU dhsu@endeavorb2b.com Bana foe (ON THE COVER: veic30 Editor's Note 4 Metalcasting News. 6 News Makers a Technical Development......9 Success Story 23 Message Received 24 New Products 26 Business Staff 28 Product Express, 29 Advertiser Index 31 Closing Comment. 2 as FOUNDRY MANAGEMENT &: TECHNOLOGY (USPS Permit 207-160, ISN 03608999 print, ISN 19449526 online published 10 times peryear January February, ‘March, Api May, June July/August, September, Octobes, Noverber/Decembet) by Endeavor Business Medi, LC. 1253 Janesille Ave, Fort Atkinson, WS3538. Perioceale postage paid at Fort Stkinson, WI, and additonal mating officer, POSTMASTER Send address changes to Foundry Management & Technology, PO Box 43257, Northbrook, ILS0065 3257. SUBSCRIPTIONS. Publisher reserves ierightto reject nom qualified subscriptions. Subscription prices US. (58625 pe year ‘Canadaftevco(S111.25 pr yea) lather counties (513625 pe yea) All subscriptions ar payabieinU.S. funds. Send subscription Inquires to Foundry Manage ment Technology, PO Box 3257, Northbrook, ILS0065-3257, Customer sevice canbe reached tl-ree at 77 382-5187 or at FHT @omedacom for magazine Subscrpionasistance or questions. 2 FOUNDRY MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY | FOUNDRYMAG.COM | OCTOBER 2023 re Nat at ok Controls iro SANR PLANLAUTOMATION WITH eee 10 RERFORMANCE GREEN | SAND PROCESS CONTROL S¥S- : \. “TEMS AND SAND TESTING ROUIP- P ] MENT FOR ~ COMPACTABILKTY, BENTQEFE Si 4 wi AND 4 ) Wp | ed MOISTURE FOR MIXERS AN. ae r H Nf ' (ano) : ; tie ‘Nae , FOR ADDITIVEXCONTROLS GSC. HASAPRODUCT LINE OF: i] BULK BAG UNEMADERS ; \ PNEUMATIQQERHNS PORTERS & _ 6CUFT Dd } i 1-2.5” WATER is ‘| | RUN Cte YUt:) <= Editorial Different Futures thout meaning to seem erass or oblivious to the reality of the situation, there is something rather reassuring to me about the United Auto Workers union’s ongoing strike against the Big Three automakers. I's the formality of the situation, the declaration of intent on both sides, and the adherence to the traditional procedures of organized labor forcing public companies to conduct an open negotiation that may be observed and perhaps influenced by the public. Inthe strikes could be bitter or tense, but the negotiation effort made it implicit that both labor and management understood that they needed each other, and that their futures were intertwined, That ‘would be encouraging, In fact, the current strike is nothing like those of the past, and ‘the frst signal of that was the UAW choosing to target individual plants of all three manufacturers ~ Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, The traditional approach would be to pick one partner, hammer out the best labor agreement that can be gotten, and then comer the other two employers into accepting those terms or appear obstinate in the eyes of the car-buying public. ‘Phe 2023 move against all three signals that to the UAW. ‘the negotiating process is not primarily an effort to get a deal butto espose the circumstances for its membership in today's automotive sector. They're not satisfied, of course, and they have presented their demands for their wages to be increased (36% increase over four years) and benefits enhanced. In particular, the tunion is demanding thatthe automakers toss out the terms settled ‘on more than a decade ago when workers” and retirees” benefits threatened to smother the three companies, and the UAW accepted a tiered wage structure for different job assignments, Everyone should be on the same wage scale, the union insists. Among other benefit demands, the UAW wants its members to work 32 hours/week; a retum to defined-benefit pensions for new hires; and restored cost-of-living pay raises. 1s hard to ‘escape the impression that the union is hoping to reset the clock. 10 2009, or even earlier. By going after the entire domestic industry at one time, by demanding a retum to former wage/benefit schemes, and particularly by its public statements, the UAW is conjuring memories of union solidarity to embolden its members and draw public sentiment to its side. LAW president Shawn Fain’s public statements are stirring the pot of social justice too, arguing that ‘the automakers” income statements and executive pay scales Robert Brooks £D/TOR reveal an industry tha is cheating its workers, “The money is there. The cause is righteous. The world is watching,” Fain declared in September In this the UAW does have a sense of the present moment, butthe financial strain on antoworkers is not primarily the fault of their employers. The distress over economic disparities is properly directed at the regulatory and fiscal policies that shape the U.S. economy, in which UAW members and the entire population have endured average inflation rates of 6-7%% during, the past three years (though less so, YTD.) UAW leaders perhaps believe that federal officials will help ‘them put the Big Three on the spot, which is the politicians” traditional role in industrial labor disputes. But they're living inthe past if they do not recognize that today’s domestic auto industry is largely a creation of federal policies. thas not been consumer demand that marshalled all. automakers to institute electric vehicle development and ‘manufacturing programs that now anchor those corporations, Car buyers asa group ate unpersuaded that EVs are necessary or desirable for them. Their opinions have not been improved bythe unaffordabltyof those new produets. ‘The union is definitely on the wrong side of history in respect to EV manufacturing: UAW members are employed in manufacturing activities directed at intemal combstion-engine vehicles, which area depreciating asset to the industry andthe regulators who mandated itso. The union is demanding a greater role inthe operations that produce EVs but that's not ikely tobe an option the Big Three concedes: The prices of those ‘vehicles are aleady scaring away buyers, why would GM or Ford, o Stellants agree to lay union-scale labor ontop oftheir ‘manufacturing costs? Thats the problem the auto industry is trying to overcome sit can live up to promises it has made aout future products and services The present realty is thatthe UAW and is Big Thee targets are not negotiating so that they ean work together in the fture They're living in different dimensions, One side is updating the present with ideas and impressions from the pas, andthe other is working outthe di times ahead. @ ties of escaping this moment for better Gpel fra 4 FOUNDRY MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY | FOUNDRYMAG.COM | OCTOBER 2023 MCR MONSS » Deigntic (Cs xFOU& WD * “Increased Production Efficiency SCM Ice eRcm CHORES Improved Plant Performance Define Issues & Provide Support Process Improvement Studies MCT TTR CEU Cost effective solutions Safer Work Conditions 1 Your Foundry Process Improvement Specialists 316 Maxwell Rd, Suite 500, Alpharetta, GA 30009, Phone: 770.667.4545 Fax: 770.667.4544 e-mail: engineering@foundrysd.com, www.foundrysd.com MetalCasting News SinterCast CGI Series Output Still Rising Foundries that melt compacted graph- ite iron using SinterCast AB control technology shipped roughly 17,916 metre tons of eastings during August, or 215,000 metric tons/year at an annualized rate, That set a new monthly record for interCast CGI eastings, topping the previous record set in June, shipments of 205,000 annualized metric tons/year, CGl is a lightweight offers greater tensile strength, stiffness, and fatigue strength than gray iron or aluminum, Stockholm-based SinterCast — which developed and li widely adopted process technology for melting CG - records its licensees shipments as “engine equivalents” (50 kg), indicative of the material’s most ‘common application in series produe- tion, casting gas and diesel engines blocks and cylinder heads. On that basis, the August shipment total is annualized as 4.3 million “engine equivalents.” iron that rases the most Despite slower summer production schedules for some important SinterCast customers, the July-August period resulted in an 11% year/year increase in production volume, it detailed “With average production of 4.0 mil- lion engine equivalents over the last four ‘months ~ including the summer shut down season — we have clearly estab- lished four million as the new normal,” stated SinterCast president and CEO Dr Steve Dawson, More practically, SinterCast noted that the August volume would corre- spond to production of approximately 100,000 vehicle engines, almost all of which would be commercial vehicles, pick-up trucks, and off-road equipment, In those vehicle market segments, CGI engines contribute fuel efficiency and CO, emissions reductions. Ultimately, the August production will contribute tothe saving of more than one million metric tons of CO, over the life of the vehicles,” SinterCast projected. @ New CapEx Project for Automotive Diecaster Shinhwa Auto USA Corp. in August announced a new eapital-investment program at its Aubum, AL, operation, {otaling S114 million. The aluminum

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