- Avoid low-value riser removal and finishing operations
- Improve your casting yield
- Prevent defects around part feeding points
The auto-breaking technology developed by AZTERLAN aims to enable the self-detachment of feeding systems, ingates and risers from cast parts directly in the shakeout drum, without requiring manual finishing operations.
By applying advanced metallurgical and design concepts, this approach allows reducing the size and cross-sections needed in feeding systems without compromising the quality of the castings.
Among the main benefits of the auto-breaking technology are:
- Ensuring the internal soundness of cast parts
- Preventing shrinkage defects and calcination around feeding points
- Minimizing the risk of part deformation during shakeout and shot-blasting processes
- Reducing the size of feeding systems (improving tooling effectiveness)
- Eliminating manual work for separating risers and filling/feeding systems
- Reducing low-value finishing tasks (grinding of gates and riser necks)
- Reducing buffers and intermediate inventory
A correct metal design is key to:
- maximizing the alloy’s self-feeding capability
- achieving the required metallurgical quality to ensure part integrity
The optimization of feeding systems, based on adequate metallurgical quality, aims to::
- reduce the size of feeding channels and risers
- prevent the occurrence of shrinkage-related issues around feeding points
“The Foundry of the Future is that of connected processes that is able to take advantage of the knowledge generated inside the company at the same time that it keeps learning from its manufacturing and market experience.
Along with a deep knowledge of metallurgy, Industry 4.0 technologies, advanced data management systems and machine learning technologies have landed in this industry to transform the way castings are conceived”.
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