“Dependability. Flexibility. Repeatability.”
Intelligent Operations
The Automated Casting Facility's new technology goes far beyond enhanced speed
and capacity to a real-time, completely paperless supervisory control and data
acquisition system. In combination with the material handling systems, the
investment casting industry's most sophisticated integrated control system
ensures the highest degree of quality, flexibility and repeatability.
The system manages virtually all automated casting facility operations. It governs machine motion, regulates process parameters, maintains a complete history for every part and provides a comprehensive set of analytical tools for trending and statistical process control. From wax blending, to shell temperature and stabilization time, to melt composition and casting parameters, to rough inspection results, Hitchiner has designed the systems' extensive data acquisition capabilities to allow for immediate and full process documentation and analysis.
The combination of high speed, high automation, high capacity, and high process reproducibility yields lower cost, greater uniformity, and much shorter lead times-benefits which Hitchiner passes directly on to the customer.
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