cast-it: casting solutions for cost and lead time reduction.
This customer uses the parallel engineering and integration team,
Drive processes have been developed to design or redesign components as functional castings.
Reducing manufacturing costs and lead time are two key factors in maintaining the company\'s livelihood --
Help it achieve higher profitability, capture business and ensure continuous customer satisfaction.
Manufacturing costs and lead times are inherent in part design. by using proven design processes and technical tools, prototype iterations can be reduced and parts can be optimized before production.
To provide optimized processes to companies and government design agencies, the United StatesS.
National Defense Logistics (DLA)
With the American Association for metal casting (AMC)in a cost-
A shared contract known as the metal casting lead time and cost reduction plan.
AMC aims to achieve two purposes: to promote the use of castings and the necessary research to improve the casting capacity; and for the U. S. Dept. of Defense (DOD)
, Providing lead time and cost reduction and quality improvement for castings used in all military departments.
Each military organization relies on the DLA supply center to provide components to support the preparation, repair and maintenance requirements of the weapons system. The CAST-
IT team casting advanced system technology
Integration team (CAST-IT)
It is formed to show the casting to meet or exceed the complex shape of the manufacturing, forging or welding properties. The multi-
Discipline teams of engineers, foundries and machine stores are collectively involved in responding to Defense Department customer requests involving extensive foundry design, manufacturing and acquisition --related issues.
Engineers working in the integrated customer team have designed, prototyped and tested many finished castings and components demonstrating the value and efficiency of the near Net
Shape manufacturing.
Several components and components redesigned by the team can now be purchased as castings, often as an alternative manufacturing process.
Several examples of these products are shown in the figure. 1. The CAST-
IT process casting-
This is a documented approach based on the existing knowledge base of experienced team members and the collective strengths and core competencies of various AMC members.
The process was developed to effectively design or redesign the casting successfully for energy components, and so far it has provided $6. 75-
The Defense Department can save millions of dollars a year.
Each redesign process is as unique as the product geometry, field applications and related design teams that ultimately carry out design, prototype and test requirements for full acceptance.
However, each redesign follows the same core process that AMC has adopted for government design and acquisition of casting prototypes.
Customer-
The use of the latest quality, design and team tools, and the use of parallel engineering and integration teams are key to its success.
The process consists of seven independent steps.
This article uses a specific conversion example that illustrates the key steps in the conversion process, followed by CAST-IT.
Case History: M1 Abrams ice splint castingIT process (see sidebar, p. 32-33)
By \"should-
\"Cost review\" of Columbus National Defense Supply Center (DSCC)
, Which identifies the part as a potential casting conversion.
At the time of the review, the winter action in Bosnia and Korea in 1998 required 58 sets of splints, 64 splints/sets99.
The quotation of forged parts requires more than 300 days of production lead time.
The team reviewed the casting capability of the part and after preliminary evaluation and communication with DSCC --
The land systems group determined that the splints could be manufactured as castings within the required lead time.
Created a team with members of the project management office Abrams (PM Abrams), Tank-
Automotive and Weapons Command (TACOM), DSCC and AMC.
1 identify the components with team partners organized by the Ministry of Defense and major contractors to identify the metal components in question.
The team started building business cases to determine the impact of cast design on acquisition costs and/or production lead times.
The components identified may be subparts of the currently deployed weapon system or may be related to the design and development activities of the new weapon system.
The team evaluates the geometry, material requirements, and overall application of a component.
This preliminary assessment is carried out quickly with little time and resource input.
The site application and technical, engineering and test requirements were collected.
Many tracked vehicles with replaceable track boards use ice splints, such as the M1 Abrams main battle tank, which increases their mobility on ice and snow.
The splints for M1 are designed and specified for forging, although other ice splints are designed for casting and forgings.
The current design configuration of the splints facilitates casting without major design changes.
2 Defining customer requirements key activities in step 2 include identifying team members, building an integration team and defining all customer requirements, including all design, manufacturing, testing, quality, assembly and acceptance criteria.
As organizations realize the importance of integrating product design and manufacturing, the traditional boundaries between design, manufacturing, and procurement become blurred.
Engineers look for team members related to the design, casting, testing, processing, assembly and acceptance of components and components.
Customer interfaces in all aspects of these disciplines are critical to success.
Establish metrics to identify key metrics for process success.
Examples of successful key measures include cost savings, lead-time reductions, reduced number of parts in complex assemblies, or availability of alternative sources generated by a single-source supply chain.
The team must work together to develop design requirements and test plans that, when successfully followed, will allow acceptance of components or components to become a viable manufacturing alternative and signed by the design authority.
Teams typically document all customer and team expectations in a written agreement memo that formally details the roles and expectations of each team member.
For the ice splints process, DSCC requirements were obtained to ensure that investment in redesign and prototyping was returned to them by reducing costs, lead times or increasing value.
Define requirements to ensure that all teammates are involved in the initial stages of the process.
In this step, with the help of DSCC and TACOM, the business and technical data of the part were compiled.
Although the order quotation is reasonable, the shortest lead time is 300 days.
Considering this preparation time, the troops will not receive the parts until after winter.
By working with TACOM and PM Abrams, it is determined that after successful testing, the deviation of cast splints will allow for a reduction in lead time for the next order.
3 Casting Design the metal casting process provides maximum flexibility and design freedom for any metal forming process.
Applying this design freedom to complex metal shapes requires understanding of the metal casting process and the casting design.
In addition, using this flexibility to build a design often requires changing the way people think about the shape and functionality of a component.
To develop the most efficient design, the team analyzed the shape, size, complexity, and System/component integration of the design features.
Due to the ability to take advantage of near-net shapes to form complex geometry, conceptual design appears and then geometric footprints, basic functional requirements, and general material properties are established.
The team also considered combining multiple parts and functions to create more efficient components.
Conduct formal design review with customer for preliminary design and detailed design.
These key milestones remain focused on customer needs as the design progresses.
Computer-aided design (CAD)
Create a solid model using tools that become the origin of all subsequent design work and prototype builds.
When the conceptual design is moved to a detailed design, the CAD model provides tools for design changes and iterations.
Perform functional performance simulations at this step, which may include stress analysis or other simulation tools required.
The flow and solidification simulation software tool is used to calculate the analytical means of initial gate and risering parameters.
The rigging parameters are then entered into the design model of the pattern or tool.
Various options for mold making and casting processes are considered and selected here.
Identify source selection criteria for identifying potential manufacturing sources, including: combining previous casting experience with similar alloys, dimensions, complexity, tools/patterns and casting processes; delivery;
Quality constraints; cost;
The ability and attitude of the team.
One of the most important factors to develop a successful detailed design is to include casting process considerations.
The team was then able to deliver all customer needs in a complete design package that included production capacity and significantly improved the chances of prototype success.
In the design phase of the ice splints, the latest tools are used with the team\'s input to design parts that not only meet the functional requirements but also manufacture the economy.
Several tools have been deployed to design ice splints and a conceptual solid model has been created and transmitted electronically for review by using the model
View the software.
This allows the team to manipulate and review the overall geometry of the castability.
By using AFSolid (
Solidification analysis software
The gate and riser positions are optimized.
The mold filling and solidification parameters required for the design were verified and the design changes were made to the part geometry to make the part more poured.
One of the changes is to extend the Bolt-mounted pads to the edge of the part profile.
This modification is to allow the part to be spritted through the edge part, which reduces the post-processing.
Industry teammates (
Foundry, paper shop and Machine Shop)
Contribute to the design that can be produced.
The team suggested changing the alloy from 4340 steel to 8630 steel to reduce the cost of hot cracking and materials.
The detailed design was reviewed and approved by TACOM.
4 Development tools designed in detail customer approval transfer process to prototype tool steps.
Patterns or tools are made by solid models created by detailed part designs.
The team typically uses rapid tool techniques such as laminate object manufacturing (LOM)
Stereo printing (SLA)
Or CNC machining of the first pattern.
Rapid tools take advantage of current technological advances and are often the choice of the team\'s compressed prototype delivery time.
In order to meet the positive deadline for ice splints parts, mold patterns must be produced quickly.
Again, industrial innovation was used because the pattern of the splints was produced by a CNC machined block of aluminum, which was selected for its moderate cost and good wear performance.
The machining code of the CNC machine is exported using a solid model, and the parts are quickly processed into accurate replicas.
The pattern is mounted on a mahogany board with the required rigging.
To minimize costs, wood is used for installation and other functions.
Casting tools are completed in less than 2 weeks.
In addition, a mock part was created using LOM rapid prototyping technology.
LOM parts are also used to facilitate machining fixture setting points, allowing concurrency in casting and machine tool manufacturing.
LOM parts are also used for installation-
Check the casting design of the T158 track shoes.
5 Production prototype casting setup activities include Gate, risering and mold production.
First, the sample is inverted to verify the rigging, shrinkage, mass and all other key functions.
Since the design phase, the casting engineer has become a member of the integrated team, and there is little surprise with this step.
After the sample is approved, the prototype casting is poured.
Then after casting
Handling operations such as cleaning, heat treatment, non-destructive testing and evaluation, and all other necessary treatments.
The final machining, protective finish, component sub-assembly, and finish assembly are then performed.
These processing features (
Datum, tolerance, fixture, surface finish)
And other posts needed
Processing requirements are established in detailed design steps.
After integration
By eliminating the redesign iteration, the finishing operation function casting design function is compressed to the prototype delivery time.
In order to verify the filling process parameters of the ice splints, two samples of the molds were made and poured.
Verification was successful, prototype orders for parts were cast, completed and heat treated in Varicast, Portland, Oregon.
These parts have passed several conformance nondestructive assessment tests including vision, size, hardness and magnetic particles.
The casting splints are then processed and assembled with fastening bolts.
Some problems, such as proprietary bolt design and phosphate coating, were found and solved by the team before manufacturing.
In the case of bolts, the design was modified using the Loctite adhesive to reduce the cost and lead time associated with the original design.
Since the phosphate coating was determined to be used only for shelf life, the design team chose to deviate from this requirement to minimize the lead time again.
The prototype order for 80 splints is from design to assembly completion in only 6 weeks and the parts are checked successfully to print.
6 test the prototype of the prototype finished product the castings or components are laboratory and/or field-
Test on weapon system according to specific customer requirements.
Team members and customers have witnessed these tests to verify acceptable functional performance.
Multiple shots
The IT prototype is considered to be the first sample of the article when a successful field-
Provide engineering data to verify casting performance.
The field test data was then used by the military to initiate a project exemption document allowing for future acquisition of castings.
PM Abrams has designated and funded the functional field testing of ice splints at the Yuma test site in Arizona.
The purpose of the field test is to ensure that no catastrophic failure of cast ice splints occurs.
All courses are required to pass smoothly.
Before submitting a request for an Engineering Change Proposal to add casting options to the drawing, TACOM requests a second test.
The splints perform equally well in cold conditions at the Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland.
7 Production technical data package the team provides the commercial standard TDP in the CAD file format specified for casting and finished assembly design as required by the customer.
In addition, engineering printing is provided to all team customers.
TDP includes all required quality assurance terms (QAP)
And provide detailed processing specifications as needed.
All industry team members conduct a manufacturing review of the final technical documents.
The final product of every actor
Customer IT process
The acceptance of prototype castings and complete technical data packets enables customers to conduct future casting acquisitions efficiently.
The solid model of the ice splint is used to create 2-
Figure D with applicable geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T)
Make sure the design intent of the manufacturing is correct.
Drawings are created for castings and machined parts, allowing for printing inspection after each manufacturing process.
In addition to joining GD & T, the print is updated according to the latest specifications.
The team and manufacturer of the prototype reviewed any final changes to the technical package and then delivered the electronic and printed drawings of the TDP to TACOM.
The final TDP helps to efficiently purchase future orders for production parts.
The team delivered the final TDP to support current and future ice cleats orders, taking only a fraction of the time it takes to forge.
The production lead time for future purchases is shorter (300 to 90 days)
Increase the preparation of weapons systems.
The design package allows two options for manufacturing methods-
Forging and casting and the provision of alternative sources provide the Army with the lowest delivery cost and delivery time.
Finally, through this process, a team of procurement offices, engineering support bureaus, Foundry expertise and industries worked effectively to provide field support to the soldier.
After the process is over, the team records its findings and results and shares them with partners so that in the future these team partners can operate independently or with the help of AMC.
The proven process, the team continues to demonstrate the benefits gained by utilizing castings as the main manufacturing method for complex metal shapes.
Through this demonstration, the team investigated, developed and deployed the process --
Robust design and acquisition process using the latest technology and team tools.
With the application of this process and the learning of lessons learned, the adaptability cited by its engineers is constantly improving.
As the integrated design team seeks and implements new tools for compressing design and manufacturing lead times and costs, process steps are added, modified, and refined.
This process proves that open communication between integrated members of manufacturing, design, testing
Drive processes have been developed to design or redesign components as functional castings.
Reducing manufacturing costs and lead time are two key factors in maintaining the company\'s livelihood --
Help it achieve higher profitability, capture business and ensure continuous customer satisfaction.
Manufacturing costs and lead times are inherent in part design. by using proven design processes and technical tools, prototype iterations can be reduced and parts can be optimized before production.
To provide optimized processes to companies and government design agencies, the United StatesS.
National Defense Logistics (DLA)
With the American Association for metal casting (AMC)in a cost-
A shared contract known as the metal casting lead time and cost reduction plan.
AMC aims to achieve two purposes: to promote the use of castings and the necessary research to improve the casting capacity; and for the U. S. Dept. of Defense (DOD)
, Providing lead time and cost reduction and quality improvement for castings used in all military departments.
Each military organization relies on the DLA supply center to provide components to support the preparation, repair and maintenance requirements of the weapons system. The CAST-
IT team casting advanced system technology
Integration team (CAST-IT)
It is formed to show the casting to meet or exceed the complex shape of the manufacturing, forging or welding properties. The multi-
Discipline teams of engineers, foundries and machine stores are collectively involved in responding to Defense Department customer requests involving extensive foundry design, manufacturing and acquisition --related issues.
Engineers working in the integrated customer team have designed, prototyped and tested many finished castings and components demonstrating the value and efficiency of the near Net
Shape manufacturing.
Several components and components redesigned by the team can now be purchased as castings, often as an alternative manufacturing process.
Several examples of these products are shown in the figure. 1. The CAST-
IT process casting-
This is a documented approach based on the existing knowledge base of experienced team members and the collective strengths and core competencies of various AMC members.
The process was developed to effectively design or redesign the casting successfully for energy components, and so far it has provided $6. 75-
The Defense Department can save millions of dollars a year.
Each redesign process is as unique as the product geometry, field applications and related design teams that ultimately carry out design, prototype and test requirements for full acceptance.
However, each redesign follows the same core process that AMC has adopted for government design and acquisition of casting prototypes.
Customer-
The use of the latest quality, design and team tools, and the use of parallel engineering and integration teams are key to its success.
The process consists of seven independent steps.
This article uses a specific conversion example that illustrates the key steps in the conversion process, followed by CAST-IT.
Case History: M1 Abrams ice splint castingIT process (see sidebar, p. 32-33)
By \"should-
\"Cost review\" of Columbus National Defense Supply Center (DSCC)
, Which identifies the part as a potential casting conversion.
At the time of the review, the winter action in Bosnia and Korea in 1998 required 58 sets of splints, 64 splints/sets99.
The quotation of forged parts requires more than 300 days of production lead time.
The team reviewed the casting capability of the part and after preliminary evaluation and communication with DSCC --
The land systems group determined that the splints could be manufactured as castings within the required lead time.
Created a team with members of the project management office Abrams (PM Abrams), Tank-
Automotive and Weapons Command (TACOM), DSCC and AMC.
1 identify the components with team partners organized by the Ministry of Defense and major contractors to identify the metal components in question.
The team started building business cases to determine the impact of cast design on acquisition costs and/or production lead times.
The components identified may be subparts of the currently deployed weapon system or may be related to the design and development activities of the new weapon system.
The team evaluates the geometry, material requirements, and overall application of a component.
This preliminary assessment is carried out quickly with little time and resource input.
The site application and technical, engineering and test requirements were collected.
Many tracked vehicles with replaceable track boards use ice splints, such as the M1 Abrams main battle tank, which increases their mobility on ice and snow.
The splints for M1 are designed and specified for forging, although other ice splints are designed for casting and forgings.
The current design configuration of the splints facilitates casting without major design changes.
2 Defining customer requirements key activities in step 2 include identifying team members, building an integration team and defining all customer requirements, including all design, manufacturing, testing, quality, assembly and acceptance criteria.
As organizations realize the importance of integrating product design and manufacturing, the traditional boundaries between design, manufacturing, and procurement become blurred.
Engineers look for team members related to the design, casting, testing, processing, assembly and acceptance of components and components.
Customer interfaces in all aspects of these disciplines are critical to success.
Establish metrics to identify key metrics for process success.
Examples of successful key measures include cost savings, lead-time reductions, reduced number of parts in complex assemblies, or availability of alternative sources generated by a single-source supply chain.
The team must work together to develop design requirements and test plans that, when successfully followed, will allow acceptance of components or components to become a viable manufacturing alternative and signed by the design authority.
Teams typically document all customer and team expectations in a written agreement memo that formally details the roles and expectations of each team member.
For the ice splints process, DSCC requirements were obtained to ensure that investment in redesign and prototyping was returned to them by reducing costs, lead times or increasing value.
Define requirements to ensure that all teammates are involved in the initial stages of the process.
In this step, with the help of DSCC and TACOM, the business and technical data of the part were compiled.
Although the order quotation is reasonable, the shortest lead time is 300 days.
Considering this preparation time, the troops will not receive the parts until after winter.
By working with TACOM and PM Abrams, it is determined that after successful testing, the deviation of cast splints will allow for a reduction in lead time for the next order.
3 Casting Design the metal casting process provides maximum flexibility and design freedom for any metal forming process.
Applying this design freedom to complex metal shapes requires understanding of the metal casting process and the casting design.
In addition, using this flexibility to build a design often requires changing the way people think about the shape and functionality of a component.
To develop the most efficient design, the team analyzed the shape, size, complexity, and System/component integration of the design features.
Due to the ability to take advantage of near-net shapes to form complex geometry, conceptual design appears and then geometric footprints, basic functional requirements, and general material properties are established.
The team also considered combining multiple parts and functions to create more efficient components.
Conduct formal design review with customer for preliminary design and detailed design.
These key milestones remain focused on customer needs as the design progresses.
Computer-aided design (CAD)
Create a solid model using tools that become the origin of all subsequent design work and prototype builds.
When the conceptual design is moved to a detailed design, the CAD model provides tools for design changes and iterations.
Perform functional performance simulations at this step, which may include stress analysis or other simulation tools required.
The flow and solidification simulation software tool is used to calculate the analytical means of initial gate and risering parameters.
The rigging parameters are then entered into the design model of the pattern or tool.
Various options for mold making and casting processes are considered and selected here.
Identify source selection criteria for identifying potential manufacturing sources, including: combining previous casting experience with similar alloys, dimensions, complexity, tools/patterns and casting processes; delivery;
Quality constraints; cost;
The ability and attitude of the team.
One of the most important factors to develop a successful detailed design is to include casting process considerations.
The team was then able to deliver all customer needs in a complete design package that included production capacity and significantly improved the chances of prototype success.
In the design phase of the ice splints, the latest tools are used with the team\'s input to design parts that not only meet the functional requirements but also manufacture the economy.
Several tools have been deployed to design ice splints and a conceptual solid model has been created and transmitted electronically for review by using the model
View the software.
This allows the team to manipulate and review the overall geometry of the castability.
By using AFSolid (
Solidification analysis software
The gate and riser positions are optimized.
The mold filling and solidification parameters required for the design were verified and the design changes were made to the part geometry to make the part more poured.
One of the changes is to extend the Bolt-mounted pads to the edge of the part profile.
This modification is to allow the part to be spritted through the edge part, which reduces the post-processing.
Industry teammates (
Foundry, paper shop and Machine Shop)
Contribute to the design that can be produced.
The team suggested changing the alloy from 4340 steel to 8630 steel to reduce the cost of hot cracking and materials.
The detailed design was reviewed and approved by TACOM.
4 Development tools designed in detail customer approval transfer process to prototype tool steps.
Patterns or tools are made by solid models created by detailed part designs.
The team typically uses rapid tool techniques such as laminate object manufacturing (LOM)
Stereo printing (SLA)
Or CNC machining of the first pattern.
Rapid tools take advantage of current technological advances and are often the choice of the team\'s compressed prototype delivery time.
In order to meet the positive deadline for ice splints parts, mold patterns must be produced quickly.
Again, industrial innovation was used because the pattern of the splints was produced by a CNC machined block of aluminum, which was selected for its moderate cost and good wear performance.
The machining code of the CNC machine is exported using a solid model, and the parts are quickly processed into accurate replicas.
The pattern is mounted on a mahogany board with the required rigging.
To minimize costs, wood is used for installation and other functions.
Casting tools are completed in less than 2 weeks.
In addition, a mock part was created using LOM rapid prototyping technology.
LOM parts are also used to facilitate machining fixture setting points, allowing concurrency in casting and machine tool manufacturing.
LOM parts are also used for installation-
Check the casting design of the T158 track shoes.
5 Production prototype casting setup activities include Gate, risering and mold production.
First, the sample is inverted to verify the rigging, shrinkage, mass and all other key functions.
Since the design phase, the casting engineer has become a member of the integrated team, and there is little surprise with this step.
After the sample is approved, the prototype casting is poured.
Then after casting
Handling operations such as cleaning, heat treatment, non-destructive testing and evaluation, and all other necessary treatments.
The final machining, protective finish, component sub-assembly, and finish assembly are then performed.
These processing features (
Datum, tolerance, fixture, surface finish)
And other posts needed
Processing requirements are established in detailed design steps.
After integration
By eliminating the redesign iteration, the finishing operation function casting design function is compressed to the prototype delivery time.
In order to verify the filling process parameters of the ice splints, two samples of the molds were made and poured.
Verification was successful, prototype orders for parts were cast, completed and heat treated in Varicast, Portland, Oregon.
These parts have passed several conformance nondestructive assessment tests including vision, size, hardness and magnetic particles.
The casting splints are then processed and assembled with fastening bolts.
Some problems, such as proprietary bolt design and phosphate coating, were found and solved by the team before manufacturing.
In the case of bolts, the design was modified using the Loctite adhesive to reduce the cost and lead time associated with the original design.
Since the phosphate coating was determined to be used only for shelf life, the design team chose to deviate from this requirement to minimize the lead time again.
The prototype order for 80 splints is from design to assembly completion in only 6 weeks and the parts are checked successfully to print.
6 test the prototype of the prototype finished product the castings or components are laboratory and/or field-
Test on weapon system according to specific customer requirements.
Team members and customers have witnessed these tests to verify acceptable functional performance.
Multiple shots
The IT prototype is considered to be the first sample of the article when a successful field-
Provide engineering data to verify casting performance.
The field test data was then used by the military to initiate a project exemption document allowing for future acquisition of castings.
PM Abrams has designated and funded the functional field testing of ice splints at the Yuma test site in Arizona.
The purpose of the field test is to ensure that no catastrophic failure of cast ice splints occurs.
All courses are required to pass smoothly.
Before submitting a request for an Engineering Change Proposal to add casting options to the drawing, TACOM requests a second test.
The splints perform equally well in cold conditions at the Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland.
7 Production technical data package the team provides the commercial standard TDP in the CAD file format specified for casting and finished assembly design as required by the customer.
In addition, engineering printing is provided to all team customers.
TDP includes all required quality assurance terms (QAP)
And provide detailed processing specifications as needed.
All industry team members conduct a manufacturing review of the final technical documents.
The final product of every actor
Customer IT process
The acceptance of prototype castings and complete technical data packets enables customers to conduct future casting acquisitions efficiently.
The solid model of the ice splint is used to create 2-
Figure D with applicable geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T)
Make sure the design intent of the manufacturing is correct.
Drawings are created for castings and machined parts, allowing for printing inspection after each manufacturing process.
In addition to joining GD & T, the print is updated according to the latest specifications.
The team and manufacturer of the prototype reviewed any final changes to the technical package and then delivered the electronic and printed drawings of the TDP to TACOM.
The final TDP helps to efficiently purchase future orders for production parts.
The team delivered the final TDP to support current and future ice cleats orders, taking only a fraction of the time it takes to forge.
The production lead time for future purchases is shorter (300 to 90 days)
Increase the preparation of weapons systems.
The design package allows two options for manufacturing methods-
Forging and casting and the provision of alternative sources provide the Army with the lowest delivery cost and delivery time.
Finally, through this process, a team of procurement offices, engineering support bureaus, Foundry expertise and industries worked effectively to provide field support to the soldier.
After the process is over, the team records its findings and results and shares them with partners so that in the future these team partners can operate independently or with the help of AMC.
The proven process, the team continues to demonstrate the benefits gained by utilizing castings as the main manufacturing method for complex metal shapes.
Through this demonstration, the team investigated, developed and deployed the process --
Robust design and acquisition process using the latest technology and team tools.
With the application of this process and the learning of lessons learned, the adaptability cited by its engineers is constantly improving.
As the integrated design team seeks and implements new tools for compressing design and manufacturing lead times and costs, process steps are added, modified, and refined.
This process proves that open communication between integrated members of manufacturing, design, testing
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