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FOCUS
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This area is specifically designed
for foundry managers -- with a special emphasis on
important operations issues.
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Use these procurement
tools at CastingTrade.com:
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INPUT
SUPPLIER
GUIDE
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These networking
tools are designed primarily to help you gain
fast, easy access to the suppliers who can best fulfill your
needs!
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Other
Feature Articles
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Reports from Dallas:
Saving
Big Dollars on ISO
Staying
on top of giga-data
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Other
Valuable Links
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Foundry
Industry Recycling Starts Today -- focuses on marketplace
applications of foundry industry by-products, such as asphalt,
concrete flowable fill, landfill, portland cement, soil amendments,
and structural fill.
Reports
on foundry technology research groups on a wide range of manufacturing
issues, from "Mechanical Properties of Permanent
Molds" to "Intelligent Control of the Cupola Furnace"
to "Filtering Molten Metal," and many more, are
available at the U.S. DoE website. (For scoops on where leading
edge research is taking place, go to the Office
of Industrial Technologies' 1999 Metalcasting report and
dig into the "Research Roadmap" in the Appendix
C.)
Attracting employees to the foundry industry:
"POURING
HOT METAL IS AWESOME!"
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Also
of interest to
FOUNDRY MANAGERS
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Prof. John Campbell:
"Ten Rules for
Good Castings"
John Campbell's "Ten Rules
for Good Castings" will be published on the CastingTrade.com
website during July and August. These rules -- together with
Prof. Campbell's definitive text, "CASTINGS"
-- are essential tools for metal casting professionals.
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Supply Castings
-- marketing issues
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ECOSORBŪ
NATURAL ODOR CONTROL
Hard-to-dispel metalcasting odors are eliminated, quickly
and inexpensively. This odor control system can single-handedly
silence neighbor complaints about odors and improve the working
conditions in your metalcasting facility. An Ecosorb representative
will be happy to provide a site survey at your facility and
make Ecosorb Odor Control System recommendations. Call Odor
Management, Inc. at 800-662-6367 for more info.
www.odormanagement.com
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Guardian
Software Systems
Guardian supplies a fully-integrated business
application created specific to the needs of the metalcasting
industry. Guardian Connect 6.0 brings together key resources
under one software solution. Improve your productivity and
profitability! Get connected with one application: Guardian
Connect 6.0.
www.guardiansoft.com
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Facility
Configuration Questions?
Equal Parts Ventures brings over 20 years of
experience, with well over 400 different companies, to the
evaluation of manufacturing capabilities and the configuration
of facilities and technologies in the development of these
enterprises. Engagements focus on acquisition, improvement
of capabilities, utilization or disposition . . . and on reducing
the risks associated with these decisions.
Contact Mike Gallagher at mgallagher@swfla.rr.com
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E-Commerce
CastingTrade.com
participated in "E-Commerce
in the Foundry Industry," a panel at the
AFS Congress in Dallas:
- Click here to view a slide
presentation by Joe Scarry to learn how foundries
can INCREASE profitability in the new networked
economy!
- Click here to read in-depth
explanation of key ideas in Scarry's slide
presentation.
- Contact
us to learn how YOU can put the ideas in this
slide show to work in YOUR company!
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