Thermal analysis for aluminum and bifilm oxide code

You know that testing for leakage, mechanical properties or X-Ray won’t avoid suddenly scrapping your aluminum castings. We can pray but it’s too little too late : we need to work with liquid metal and mold control before casting, not just tests on the solid casting. And ASTM standards won’t help us much on reaching your energy efficiency and low scrap rate objectives. Best practices and data will. This article offers a sneak peak of the 2016  MODERN CASTING  survey on melt control practices ( figure 1 ). Then a word on  thermal analysis for liquid aluminum quality control. Simply, why spectrographic analysis is not enough to make good money out of your melt. In the end, you’re getting your foundry more and more into John Campbell’s bifilm code , right? Continue reading « Thermal analysis for aluminum and bifilm oxide code »

Your Casting Simulation training June-July 2022

Fill the form below to register for our upcoming web-based casting simulation training on SOLIDCast and FLOWCast. Each participant will receive a 45-day evaluation license for the software, so you can run through your castings or the case studies that we will provide. The cost is US$300 per person, per session.

Foundry Process Two Sessions of 3 hours each
1:00pm to 4:00pm Central Time
Sand Casting for Contracting Alloys
(steel, aluminum, copper, etc)
June 28 and 30, 2022
Sand Casting for Expanding Alloys
(gray and ductile irons)
July 5 and 7, 2022
Investment CastingJuly 12 and 14, 2022
Permanent Mold CastingJuly 19 and 21, 2022

Register now for SOLIDCast and FLOWCast web training – May and June 2021

Each participant will receive a 45-day evaluation license for the mold filling and casting simulation software FLOWCast and SOLIDCast, so you can run through the case studies that we will provide. You can also simulate your own castings, to see how the software can be applied in your shop.

FLOWCast filling video for test bars ( model taken from John Campbell’s Casting Handbook). Several studies and practices show that reducing liquid turbulence during mold filling reduce non comformities in the castings.
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All new SF Thermal Analysis system for aluminum

Be among the first to use the new SF Thermal Analysis system to control your aluminum melt properties daily on the shop floor. How do your critical fraction solid %, grain refinement and modification levels vary through the shift ? Let’s use data to minimize your flux consumption. Full article in the Simple Solutions That Work Magazine is here :

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Hot distortion test for shell sand at your foundry

This hot distortion test for shell sand will provide usefull information on the performance of your sand molds and cores. How is it varying through shifts and through out the year at your foundry? How can we better understand casting related defects by keeping track of the hot distortion test for your foundry sand ?

Contact your SF metallurgist for more information and to request your quote for this hot distortion tester. We support Versatile products and we distribute from Canada. Our foundry sand experts also provide calibration and maintenance services.

GIFA in Germany : SF Exciting Foundry Solutions for you!

SF will bring value to you as an OEM, casting buyer or as a foundry whatever your new project or casting challenge are. Metallurgical expertise for daily debugging or start-ups, supply the right foundry products for you,  Foundry 4.0 for data and process control, SF castingdefect.com free app, Aluminum Thermal analysis, green sand additive, 100% X-ray in-line, sand testing equipment and foundry equipment. Here’s what SF will showcase in Hall 17 Booth 19A at GIFA:

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SF at GIFA, Germany, June 25-29th, Hall 17 booth 19A

What causes casting defects and how to solve them? Such a general question needing fine process control and answers ! SF will be exhibiting at booth 19A Hall 17.  We are foundry metallurgists who are developing cost-effective technologies and material solutions to casting buyers, OEMs and foundries.

We bring value to costumers around the world and we work on all alloys. What is your business ?

Let’s start our journey together by downloading our castingdefect.com mobile app for free on your phone. The aluminum casting version is coming soon !

Click to download on www.castingdefect.com

How to Repair your Casting Defect ? Use ATOMWelding machine.

Wherever you live on our beautiful planet, you’re welcome to subscribe to SF Blog. We have one foot of snow already here in Québec City, it’s fun ! Today we’re introducing you how to repair casting defects cost-effectively using the ATOMWelding machine. SF supports, stocks and distributes ATOMWelding for North America.  Check the videos below and request a trial on your castings today. Continue reading « How to Repair your Casting Defect ? Use ATOMWelding machine. »

Read this if you can’t visit our booth #111 in Texas next week

If you’re putting on your hat and cowboy boots to visit  Texas for the AFS show – yeeeah!! –  send us a quick e-mail (info@solutionsfonderie.com) ! We’ll schedule a kick-start discussion with our metallurgist to support your growth in 2018. Here’s what will be hot at SF stall #111  this year but first, how do we add value to your business ? Continue reading « Read this if you can’t visit our booth #111 in Texas next week »

Best Casting Simulation Software Training in California and Ontario

How riser and gating system should work ? How to avoid casting defects and minimize your cost? Let’s measure it using simulation! Save money on your 2018 casting jobs by training your team. Next trainings are in California and Ontario on the world’s most effective casting simulation software. Click this link to register :

Best casting simulation software training in 2018

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How casting buyer works with Foundry Solutions (SF) ?

Which alloy ? Which design ? How to increase your profit as a casting buyer and OEM? Today on Foundry Solutions blog, we’re excited to invite you and subscribe to the new online e-magazine called Part Buyers Authority.  SF is thrilled to be among contributors. Before we continue on how casting buyers work with SF, here’s the link to subscribe to the magazine :

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Download your Casting Defect app update featuring Dr. John Campbell’s bifilm

You’re now ready to download your free Casting Defect mobile app update. What’s new?  It features Dr. John Campbell’s oxide bifilm defects. In order to stay updated in the future, please delete your last version and install the new one following this link  for Google store or Apple Store: Continue reading « Download your Casting Defect app update featuring Dr. John Campbell’s bifilm »

Which training method do you prefer for your effective casting process simulation?

Our friends at Finite Solutions Inc. are hosting the trimestrial effective casting seminar from July 11th to July 13th at Western Michigan University.  Maybe you prefer to train your engineer from the comfort of your foundry, or their home ? Then, request training videos now. Here’s the link to the seminar registration : Continue reading « Which training method do you prefer for your effective casting process simulation? »

We thank you and all of our customers for trusting us since 2013 for your casting optimization projects

SF was recently featured as the emerging casting optimization firm in the Aluminum Magazine of Québec, Canada.  That’s awesome. Still, what’s really thrilling for us is that you selected us for the success of your casting optimization projects. Thank you so much for your trust since 2013. Here’s the two-pages article as published in the magazine Al13 | june 2017 : Continue reading « We thank you and all of our customers for trusting us since 2013 for your casting optimization projects »

Réduisez vos coûts avec une pièce de fonderie et un procédé signés SF

Vous êtes un donneur d’ordres ? Une fonderie ? Voici deux exemples expliquant comment SF réduit vos coûts avec un design optimisé en fonction du procédé de fonderie.  Avant cela, nous profitons du blogue d’aujourd’hui pour souhaiter la bienvenue à Philipe Douville-Hivon dans l’équipe SF; stagiaire en conception mécanique de l’Université de Sherbrooke! Continue reading « Réduisez vos coûts avec une pièce de fonderie et un procédé signés SF »

We are your new Casting Optimization Partner

When Aluminum Times Magazine and Al 13 Magazine asked if they could publish an interview on 2016-2017 R&D by SF and our foundry solutions for you , we were thrilled! What makes us your new Casting Optimization Partner ? Those magazine  will only be out for June 2017. So here’s the handout we’ll give you when we meet in Milwaukee at the MetalCasting Congress from April 25th-27th : Continue reading « We are your new Casting Optimization Partner »

Tilt pour casting simulation video of aluminum A356 permanent mold

From March 21st to 23rd, SF co-hosted a three days casting process simulation training with Finite Solutions Inc in Québec, Canada. It was really fun and practical! Four aluminum foundries were trained on the software and received a 45 days evaluation license. Here’s one of the example we did : a tilt pour casting simulation of aluminum permanent mold casting : Continue reading « Tilt pour casting simulation video of aluminum A356 permanent mold »

Register now for Effective Casting Simulation, March 21-23, Canada

You want to optimize your casting process or train a new metallurgist? Improve metal yield % for more profits per casting? From March 21-23rd, SF and Finite Solutions Inc. are co-hosting The Effective Casting Simulation seminar in beautiful Québec City, Canada.  Kindly fill and return this registration form to David Schmidt, places are limited : Continue reading « Register now for Effective Casting Simulation, March 21-23, Canada »

16 oxide inclusion detection methods for aluminum melt cleanliness

Welcome to SF blog ! Today we look into Dr. Apelian’s team paper review published by the AFS in 2016 on oxide inclusion detection methods for aluminum melt cleanliness. Then, we open with R&D work in progress by SF for hydrogen and oxide bi-film related porosity control in aluminum melt using thermal analysis. Which method do you use ?

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How your MeltCup and QuickCup %C combustion analysis compare?

20161104_104622Wherever you live on our beautiful planet, welcome to SF blog hosted from Québec City! Today’s article shares preliminary results from a series of tests SF is conducting to understand performance of different thermal analysis cups for iron chemistry (with tellurium). The goal consists in investigating if there are differences between MeltCup and QuickCup that could influence your repeatability in %Carbon thermal analysis.  Continue reading « How your MeltCup and QuickCup %C combustion analysis compare? »

Download SF thermal analysis presentation at Vancouver AFSbc and read SF news

thermal analysis SF AFSbc 2016Have you ever been there? Beautiful mountains, hikes, great kayaking… Vancouver area is a true natural wonder! Still, it was all about castings at the AFS Northwest regional congress last week. In this context,  SF happily accepted the invitation and traveled 4,800km to give a lecture on thermal analysis for aluminum, iron and steel foundries and discuss why casting simulation goes hand-in-hand with thermal analysis for more profits.

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Your new casting design simulation, comparison and optimization service in Canada

casting process simulation solidcast flowcast opticastAre you making metal fabrications and you want to open your design horizon to the cost-effectiveness of castings ?  Maybe you are a casting designer for a foundry and you want to optimize metal yield ? This article announces that SF and the engineers behind SOLIDCast, FLOWCast and OPTICast are now working together for cost-effective casting design simulation, comparison and optimization in Canada. How do you choose from the casting simulation software list? Do you really need casting simulation? Continue reading « Your new casting design simulation, comparison and optimization service in Canada »

What is shrinkage casting defects ?

How do you correct your melt in order to control stability ? What is shrinkage casting defects potential in the melt ? In this article, we’re not referring to gating design, casting geometry or casting procedures. Today, let’s discuss the metallurgical shrinkage tendency of the melt itself. David Sparkman at MeltLab presented this theory at the Ductile Iron Society last October 2015.

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Pre-Launching the SF Casting defects app on your mobile phone !

trois screenshotsDo you carry your mobile phone on the foundry floor? Then, why not use it for more consistent castings ? Let us present to you why our new casting defects app will become a must-have in 2016-2017. We’re very excited to be the first using it here in Québec. www.castingdefect.com

*** March 30th update : Please e-mail François Audet ( click ) if you want to contribute to the app with your casting defect pictures.  Free version available at www.castingdefect.com*** Continue reading « Pre-Launching the SF Casting defects app on your mobile phone ! »

Were you at the University Laval event on the physics of Thermal Analysis?

Équipe MetSoc- Sparkman et SFLast thursday January 28th, MetSoc student chapter at University Laval hosted this memorable beer and pizza event on the physics of thermal analysis, which was lectured by David Sparkman ( MeltLab).  Can you tell what the gentleman on the left is holding on the photo? No, it’s not a beer funnel. Continue reading « Were you at the University Laval event on the physics of Thermal Analysis? »

Aluminum and Iron Microstructure by Thermal Analysis published by AFS

nod pass shrink failDid you know how aluminum and iron microstructure by thermal analysis can be predicted by the new MetlLab technology ?   Indeed, since 1980 MeltLab adds value to aluminium, bronze steel and more exotic metal castings. Here’s the 2011 AFS paper by David Sparkman. In 2016, why not use the best tool to measure and correct your melt for consistent castings? Continue reading « Aluminum and Iron Microstructure by Thermal Analysis published by AFS »

What you can expect from Foundry Solutions Metallurgical Services ( SF ) in 2016 ?

Foundry Solutions Metallurgical ServicesWherever you live on beautiful planet Earth, welcome into the year 2016 ! How was 2015 on your side ? In this article, you’ll better understand where we’ve been at Foundry Solutions Metallurgical Services (SF) and where we’re going for the New Year. But first, thank you. Continue reading « What you can expect from Foundry Solutions Metallurgical Services ( SF ) in 2016 ? »