Increase your casting cleaning productivity via 'space and pace.' (includes related articles on continuous flow)

Continuous flow isn't exclusive to captive foundries. Job shops can still have their needed flexibility . . . while reducing labor costs 40%.

In today's mode of business where customers' expectations of continuous cost improvement have become the annual norm, foundrymen constantly scramble to find the solution for these cost reduction pressures. One of the most promising areas in which to improve your production costs may very well come after the cores are made, sand is molded, scrap is charged and metal is poured.

The largest area of non-value-added activity in most foundries is the cleaning and finishing area, where castings (found in bucket after bucket), are handled far too many times as they are ground, shotblasted and p...

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