INTERNATIONAL STEEL CASTING CONFERENCE 2018
OCTOBER 2018
Agenda
Tuesday, 9th October 2018
08:00 Registration
09:00 Block I
Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Marc C. Schneider, CEO and President, MAGMA, Germany
Innovative role of Foundry in the Design and Development of Castings
Stefan Dötsch, Head of Foundry, KSB, Germany
Investment Casting becomes Smart Casting - The effective approach to create a real casting user-foundry partnership
Ingo Bitzer, Managing Director, Feinguss Blank, Germany
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Block II
Toughness oriented Design of Steel Castings
Dr.-Ing. Peter Langenberg, CEO, IWT Solutions, Germany
Thin walled Steel Castings - Potential for a Business Case
Dr.-Ing. Martin Hillebrecht, Director Innovations /Competence Center, EDAG Engineering, Germany
Additive Manufacturing Accelerates Foundry Transformation
Nathan VanBecelaere, Leader Sand Mold Design Team Lead, Emerson (Fisher Controls), USA
12:45 Lunch 14:00 Block III
Full mold casting process of steel
Takashi Komai and Akihide Kimura, Managing Director, Kimura Chuzosho, Japan
Production of Steel Precision Parts by alternative Processes: Metal Injection Molding
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzoldt and Dipl.-Ing. Vera Friederici, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technologies and Advanced Materials IFAM, Germany
15:15 Coffee Break 15:30 Block IV
An Approach for Preventing Distortions in Steel Castings
Mehmet Özalp, Foundry Manager and Caner Töre, Engineering Manager, Silvan Sanayi, Turkey
Steel castings – Current Status and some serious Questions regarding the Perspectives
Dipl.-Hdl. Heiko Lickfett, Head of economic division, BDG, Germany
Autonomous Engineering for Steel Castings - Applications and ongoing R+D
Dr.-Ing. Ingo Hahn and Dr.-Ing. Jörg C. Sturm, MAGMA, Germany
Wednesday, 10th October 2018 08:30 Block V
Development of Materials, Casting Design and Foundry-Processes
Dipl.-Ing. Reinhold Hanus, Sen. Manager R&D and Quality, voestalpine, Austria
Reoxidation Inclusions and Porosity Formation in Steel Casting
Prof. Christoph Beckermann, University of Iowa, USA
Shrinkage and Surface Crack on Gas Cutting Plane in large Cast Steel Products
Atsushi Kishimoto, Kobe Steel, Japan
Crack of Vanadium micro alloyed Low Alloy Steel Casting
Albert An, Manager, CMIPC, P. R. China
10:45 Coffee Break 11:15 Block VI
Voith Group’s Steel Foundry Strategy looking to the Market and the Future
Marcio Ritoni, Foundry Manager, Voith Turbo, Brazil
Steel castings – new markets and new challenges in Pioma-Foundry
Prof. Jan Jezierski, Silesian University of Technology, Rafał Kania and Krzysztof Kostrzewa, Chief Metallurgist, PIOMA Foundry, Poland
Developing and manufacturing wear resistant parts for a global market
Ilkka Rytky, Sen. Manager Casting, Metso Minerals, Czech Republic
Closing Remarks
Dr.-Ing. Erwin Flender, Chairman MAGMA, Germany
13:30 End of the International Steel Casting Conference followed by a Lunch
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