Article: CMI Adds Six Sigma certification and Green Sand Control to catalog.(AFS/CMI NEWS)

Article: Reducing casting defects: a basic green sand ...
Modern Casting;  April 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... used for controlling a green sand system, how they are run and how they relate to sand control. There are four basic ... effectively control green sand. These include the ... commonly used to control green sand systems include moisture ...

Article: The inventory method; a different paradigm of green ...
Modern Casting;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... traditional thinking, this method of green sand system control is being accepted overseas ... While the focus of this article is green sand systems, consider for a moment your ... foundries today go about the control of their green sand systems--testing and adjusting the ...

Article: A basic green sand control program. ...
Modern Casting;  May 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...In the last of this two-part series, structural sand tests that provide information on sand composition are investigated. The green properties tests that appeared last month in Part 1 of this series quantify the physical/mechanical properties of the sand such as strength characteristics. Structural

Article: Improving sand control with wet tensile ...
Modern Casting;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... testing with standard green sand tests can improve sand control and reduce casting ... practice, the sand control program of many green sand foundries relies ... testing with standard green sand tests can improve sand control and reduce sand ...

Article: Sand handling systems affect castings produced in green ...
Modern Casting;  February 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... Sand For some 200 years, green sand has been the most widely ... testing sand does not define sand control, but the importance, and ... fundamental importance to good green sand castings. Unfortunately, most sand control programs are limited to ...

Article: Promote Homogeneity for Optimal Green Sand ...
Modern Casting;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... important to realizing a properly conditioned green sand system. There is more to green sand control than just having all system constituents pres ... out fires." The muller is the heart of the green sand system, and its settings and sequence of ...

Article: Tips for auditing your green sand ...
Modern Casting;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... 4-M) procedure for auditing green sand systems, which was developed out ... examine and question their methods of green sand control - and recognize that yesterday ... one for today. Controlling your green sand system requires breaking the process ...