Cold Box 4.0
Our vision for the future of foundries

The issues pertaining to the Cold Box process

Although revolutionary, the Cold Box process has seldom evolved in the first two decades since it's creation in the mid-1970s. This slow progress has sometimes made the process inefficient inside foundries, causing many issues for foundrymen around the world, such as:

High production costs
Low productivity
High scrap and waste

Our solution: integrated engineering

With the purpose of changing this situation, our team of engineers and specialists at Automatic Foundry Solutions has focused on developing technological innovations that can address the problems listed above and take the Cold Box process to a new level of competitivity.

For us, Cold Box 4.0 is based on integrated engineering, connecting many variables, among them: the machines' operation status, the toolings' layouts, the raw resources used in each step of the process, external variables (like ambient temperature) and more.

How we achieve our objectives: data intelligence

In order to control the variables listed above, we make use of two innovative technologies to preview and monitor data from many steps of the Cold Box process: MAGMA® C+M, a world class simulation software, and SMARTMATIC™, our control and monitoring system.

MAGMA® Simulations

Thanks to our international partnership with MAGMA®, worldwide leader on simulation softwares for casting, we digitally test a number of layouts for our clients' molds and cores in order to establish the most optimal design for production. Thus, we are able to predict and prevent eventual issues that could occur while casting, and also optimize the sand / metal ratio needed during their manufacturing.

Moreover, the simulations allow us to ascertain the quality and efficiency of stackmolding per individual layout, which allows for savings in raw materials as well as increased productivity.

SMARTMATIC Monitoring

All our equipment has advanced and ultra-precise sensors for process monitoring, which collect data on many key factors related to our equipment's day-to-day performance and operation.

We analise this data along with our clients in order to understand which factors may be causing problems, which are then fixed by adjusting internal settings in our machines' production recipes, and by working to limit the influence of any possible environmental factors detected by our sensors. Thus, we increase overall process efficiency and limit problems on our clients' core and molds, leading to higher quality castings and cost reductions.

Verified results

See real results of our methodology and our equipment in our clients' foundries.
CLIENT
Productivity
(Molding)
+46%
Productivity
(Finishing)
+89%
Workers
(Molding)
1/3
CLIENT
Productivity
+65%
Waste
-52%
Amine consumption
-55%
CLIENT
Productivity (average)
+25%
BEFORE
66 cycles / hour
AFTER
82 cycles / hour
Amine consumption
-30%
BEFORE
1,5 ml
AFTER
1 ml
CLIENT
Productivity (average)
+10%
BEFORE
85 cycles / hour
AFTER
93 cycles / hour
Amine consumption
-30%
BEFORE
1,5 ml
AFTER
1 ml

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Martin Orioni
Technical Sales Director