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Metalcasting Technologies: Helping to Provide the Competitive Advantage

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Metalcasting Technologies: Helping to Provide the Competitive Advantage

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    1. Metalcasting Technologies: Helping to Provide the Competitive Advantage Bob Voigt Penn State University

    2. Enabling The Future Shaped by the past Focused by the present Building the future Strategic research areas Strategic research systems

    3. My Technology Picks Thin-wall ferrous castings Gating/pouring/filling design Integrated dimensional engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) Ti & Mg casting technology Al alloy composition/process optimization

    4. This Morning Technology & Metalcasting Competitiveness Critical Technology Updates Rapid Manufacturing – Martin Koch Lost Foam – Brian Smith Light Weight Castings – Mahi Sahoo Advanced Materials – Paul Bujalski

    5. Competitiveness/Technology “Your people are your only sustainable competitive advantage” Ray Witt, 1984 We must continue to develop, adapt and adopt technology to remain competitive

    6. Develop Technology Decades of success Legacy of industry, industry trade association and university interaction Exploitable technology sits on the shelf (and is being used by other metalcasters)

    7. Adapt Technology Often new technology is unused or is deemed unprofitable Adapting technology is more difficult than developing technology, especially for small foundries Unintended technological benefits often surpass the intended benefits

    8. Adopt Technology New technologies incorporated into quality systems and practices Integration/sensors/controls Just plain hard work (& profitability potential)

    9. Challenges For The Small to Medium-sized Jobbing Foundry Must do many things well (well enough) Limited R&D resources Often ‘under-engineered’ Makes developing, adopting, and adapting technology more difficult

    10. Competitive Advantage Drivers Industry Associations Technology assessment Develop/Adapt Government Partners Develop Industry Suppliers Develop/Adapt Universities Technologist providers Develop/Adapt Profitable foundries Develop/Adapt/Adopt

    11. Key Industry Challenge Develop/adapt/adopt will require engineers The US metalcasting industry is ‘under-engineered’ Cannot exploit technology Cannot exploit profit potential

    12. Re-Engineering of the US Metalcasting Industry Must focus on the small-medium sized metalcasters Must demonstrate a profitable pathway to re-engineering Must facilitate a cultural change in organizations (…. Management ….)

    13. Building & Sustaining Competitive Advantages Develop/Adapt/Adopt Re-engineer the metalcasting industry Metalcasters, suppliers, trade associations, and government

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