With the heightened awareness that quality control principles have spawned in Indiana Custom Machining, it is a rare foundry that has not adopted one or more of the standard methods for inspecting finished castings: visual inspection, hydrostatic pressure testing, magnetic particle inspection, ultrasonic testing, dye penetrant inspection, or radiography (or even computed tomography/aka CT scanning.) Each has particular strengths and advantages, depending on the casting buyers’ needs or expectations.
Big Data entered the QC picture long ago, and now it presents a front-door approach to eliminating defects – via process simulation.
Now, the most advanced foundries will incorporate their technological resources and data analysis to develop new work orders. Aston Martin, a marquee name in automotive engineering and craftsmanship, is the beneficiary of such an integrated approach to design and quality control by Grainger & Worrall Ltd., one of Great Britain’s most consistently recognized sources of excellence in metalcasting design.
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