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...

Additive manufacturing is expected to transform and upgrade the traditional foundry industry realize integrated rapid low-cost development of high-performance components with complex shapes. The additive technology commonly applied in casting mold preparation (fusible molds, sand molds/cores ceramic cores) mainly includes selective laser sintering (SLS) binder injection three-dimensional printi...

Appropriate description and implementation of internal part traceability in manufacturing is a complex task. Accurate and real-time traceability from a part to a manufacture, storage, or transport issue is essential to efficient and high-quality operations. With the increasing amount of machine status and product quality information coming from the manufacturing lines, a question arises. When t...

This paper describes the current status of multi-project chip(MPC) services in Korea to promote full-custom and semi-custom IC design activities in universities. Although MPC foundry services for IC designs were started in a lesser scale more than 10 years ago, it is only recent that systematic and effective educations and MPC foundry services program called IDEC( IC design education center) wa...

A. Misztal, M. Butlewski, A. Jasiak, S. Janik, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland An increasing competition in the foundry market focuses on more efficient methods of production. High quality and efficiency requirements, but also rising labor costs, will make the foundry production largely automated. Currently, molding on automatic lines accounts for 40 % of the foundry production ...

The establishment of a DNA synthesis and construction foundry at Imperial College in London heralds a new chapter in the development of synthetic biology to meet new global challenges. The Foundry employs the latest technology to make the process of engineering biology easier, faster and scalable. The integration of advanced software, automation and analytics allows the rapid design, build and ...

The mortality experienced by a cohort of 10,491 United Kingdom steel foundry workers during the period 1946-85 has been investigated. These workers were all male operatives first employed in any one of the 10 participating foundries in 1946-65; all had worked in the industry for a minimum period of one year. Compared with the general population of England and Wales, statistically significant ex...