Rapid Castings : Rapid Prototypes for Metal Casting Processes, DVD

Title: Rapid Castings : Rapid Prototypes for Metal Casting Processes, DVD
Author: SME
ISBN: DV09PUB7
Format: DVD
Publisher: SME
Year: 2009
Availability: 45-60 days

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Part of the award-winning Manufacturing Insights Video Series, this video is written by renowned industry specialist Todd Grimm. This program highlights how rapid casting and its various techniques have become an indispensable part of modern manufacturers' ability to shorten design and production lead times. Case studies look into the evolution of rapid casting technology and evaluate its flexibility for producing complex, finely detailed castings that eliminate the need for hard tooling, which reduces production costs and time to market.

Enter Ford Motor Company's Beech Daly Technical Center to witness the automated, direct production of sand casting copes, drags and cores.

Visit Express Pattern and Barron Industries to see how rapid prototyping accelerates investment casting prototypes, processes and production.

Tour Armstrong Mold's and Design Prototyping Technologies' operations to understand the role rapid prototyping has in the plaster mold casting process.