Steel Casting Design & Manufacturing Engineering webinars

Story of the Casting Design Pathway

Target Audience: OEM Casting Designers & Buyers, Steel Casting Producers

This is the introduction to the entire SFSA webinar series “Steel Casting Design & Manufacturing Engineering.” The series is presented in the context of a story: How Michael Gwyn, career-long SFSA member and 25-year steel casting producer, discovered innovative principles for excellence in steel casting design. Webinar 1 is glimpse into his “Trail Map” for both design geometry and resulting producibility.

Freeway to Producer Response & Lower Prices …or… Difficult Trail to Higher Cost

Target Audience: OEM Casting Designers & Buyers, Steel Casting Producers

This is an overview of the principles of excellence in steel casting design geometry with the benefits that flow down from geometry excellence, through the producer, to better prices and shorter lead-times. Conversely, the consequences of the typical “fair-to-poor” design geometry flow through the producer’s tooling design, mold process engineering, and finishing operations… all at higher cost.

Castability Geometry

Target Audience: OEM Casting Designers, Steel Casting Producer Technical Sales & Marketing

This episode in the SFSA Casting Design & Manufacturing Engineering webinar series is foundational. A critical distinction is made between the age-old concept of “Alloy Castability” and the discovery that CASTING GEOMETRY enables whatever “Alloy Castability” exists to be accommodated. In other words, and especially for steel casting alloys, the concept of CASTABILITY GEOMETRY enables even an alloy with poor castability to “LIKE” the mold cavity geometry that it flows into and solidifies. This discovery is critical to OEM casting designers.