MAGMA ECONOMICS Iron

MAGMA ECONOMICS enables the quantitative evaluation of costs, energy consumption and CO₂ emissions together with quality criteria directly in MAGMASOFT®.

MAGMA ECONOMICS Example:
Brake Disc Production on a Molding Line:

An employee came up with the idea of using a smaller molding line for production to save costs. Is it worth the effort?

• PRODUKTPARAMETER:
  Product: Brakedisk
  Process: sand casting, horizontal molding line
  Metal: cast iron, GJL-350
  Casting weight: 6 kg
  Production volume: 500,000/year
  Cavities per mold: 8 vs. 4
  Cycle time: 60 sec. vs. 22,5 sec.
  Number of filters: 4 vs. 1

The scenario planning feature in MAGMA ECONOMICS allows you to quickly make a simple cost estimate.
This resulted in an estimated cost savings of €0.16 / 7%.

• The expected savings of €0.16/7 % was thus incentive enough to create a CAD model of the design and then simulate it.
• The simulation result exceeds the prediction by further 3 %. Total savings: 10 %.
  

  For a planned production volume of 500,000 parts per year, the savings is € 115,000.