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04. September 2020 KUKA maintains its commitment to innovation even in the crisis KUKA is starting the late summer with a digital press conference se-ries. Under the motto "Join for a coffee with...", KUKA experts will be talking to media represent-atives. The event was kicked off by Dr. Ulrike Tagscherer, Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA: "For a company, innovation is like a kind of life insurance policy.” In the virtual discussion round, Dr. Tagscherer emphasized that innovation ...

21. December 2020 Complete process optimisation with Artificial Intelligence: Huaxiang chooses DISA’s Monitizer suite for Smart Foundry project Shanxi Huaxiang Group Co., Ltd. (“Huaxiang”) has become the first Chinese foundry to adopt the full Monitizer® digital suite, supplied and supported by DISA, a Norican technology. Monitizer | GLOBAL will allow Huaxiang to collect and monitor live process data and optimise casting quality using Monitizer | PRESCRIBE’s AI-driven analyt...

02. December 2020 Thomas Fritsch Chief Editor Tesla consciously builds on the German location and on die casting At the renowned tool and mold maker KRÄMER + GREBE GmbH & Co.KG from Biedenkopf-Wallau, more and more die casting molds for lightweight construction and drive components for electric vehicles are being delivered to customers in the foundries. Using the example of a recently delivered tool, we asked the experts at K + G, Fabian Schuetz (Sales) and Roberto Di Giulio (Head o...

17. August 2020 Focus on improved casting outcomes using green sand analytics Author: Deepak Chowdhary – Inventor of SANDMAN data analytics SaaS software for green sand molding and digitalization in foundries. Data Science is precisely what the name suggests: it is the science of mathematically modeling data and using the logic and computational flow of algorithms to predict outcomes and recommend the most optimal solutions to achieve them in the process to which applied. In Mach...

10. December 2020 Why Foundry Workers love the Runner Cutter After the casting process, there are many casting runners left which we need to be broken into smaller pieces in preparation for the next melt, because smaller pieces save costs and space. The fettling shop becomes the starting point for the efficient and cost-effective loading of the furnace with the crushed scrap parts. There are still foundries which instruct their workers to hammer the runners away, but soon this will ...

One of the leading Korean die-cast manufacturers has chosen LK for its complete solution of die casting machines IMPRESS-PLUS 6000T and 4000T. They have ordered two giant machines for their plant in Vietnam for an international, well known Korean communication company. 

GER - VDMA: Decline in sales in air handling technology kept within limits Flash survey: sales decline of 7 percent expected for 2020 -- Forecast: slight growth of 2 percent in the coming year According to the current autumn survey of member companies, the VDMA Air Handling Technology Association expects a 7 percent drop in sales for the industry for the whole of 2020. For the machinery and plant engineering sector, the VDMA anticipates a 14 percent drop in production in 2020. According to the ...

16. December 2020 JML and Le Creuset : Delivering a new foundry under a tight schedule JML Industrie were chosen as one of the core suppliers to help Le Creuset double the capacity of their Fresnoy le Grand site which was at operational capacity. It was already running 24/7 during the week with weekend hours maxed out. Because of the technical difficulty around the production of the enamel pieces the decision was made to keep the production in France. Why JML Industrie were selected...

12. October 2020 Otto Junker subsidiary JUNKER Industrial Equipment s.r.o. in Boskovice celebrates its 25th anniversary With the aim of increasing the competitiveness of the OTTO JUNKER Group, expanding its business on the international market and serving it even better, in 1995 OTTO JUNKER GmbH founded its own company in the Czech Republic: JUNKER Industrial Equipment s.r.o. The declared objective was to continue and further guarantee the practical implementation of the expertise...

Foundry experts are linking casting defects to their probable root causes by using years of experience. However, even the eyes of an expert cannot see details that MAGMASOFT ® simulation can display virtually.