- Big easy Ergo: record-breaking attendance at this
year's Applied Ergo Conference.
Hosting just shy of 800 attendees, the 2005 Applied Ergonomics Conference was the best attended in the event's eight-year history. The turnout is understandable given ......
- Exemplary ergo: winners of the 2004 Ergo Cup
demonstrate ingenuity.
THE ERGO CUP WAS CREATED TO REWARD innovative and beneficial ergonomic design in the workplace. Each year, a select few teams compete for top honors ......
- Engineers on the line: Ford Motor Co. makes ergonomics
awareness required learning.
The ergonomics program at Ford Motor Co. is enjoying a renaissance. Traditionally, a reactive ergonomics team performed job-specific analyses on high-risk operations in the plant....
- Testing ductile iron nodularity.
As metalcasters are well aware, nodule count in ductile iron is extremely important to the success of castings. It is this spherical graphite shape ......
- Ductile iron nodule count affected by molten mental
processing.
A high nodule count in a ductile iron microstructure can be advantageous in many casting applications. It: * generally implies little, if any, primary carbide ......
- ThyssenKrupp Waupaca plans $162 million expansion at
Tennessee gray and ductile iron plant.
ThyssenKrupp Waupaca Inc., Waupaca, Wis., will break ground on a new expansion at its Etowah, Tenn., metalcasting facility on Sept. 24. According to a ......
- Ductile iron dilemma: primary
carbides.
Ductile cast iron is particularly prone to formation of primary carbides during solidification. A primary reason for this is that the graphite forms into a ......
- New Georgia Ductile Iron Foundry
Planned.
Retired Internet Founder and Chairman George W. Mathews, Jr., has announced plans to construct a $42-million ductile iron foundry for automotive brake parts in Cordele, ......
- Overview of ductile iron treatment methods--part 2:
ductile iron is made by the special...
IN LADLE TREATMENT METHODS Open ladle process is currently used for treating liquid iron mostly with heavy magnesium master alloys. In this method, the measured ......
- Graphite flotation in ductile iron castings:
definition and influencing factors.
This article represents the first of two summaries highlighting research sponsored by AFS at BCIRA concerning carbon flotation. While the information presented was taken entirely ......
- Sulfur control at the mold metal interface of cast
ductile iron.
As any foundryman knows, the number of variables that affect any given characteristic of a casting is enormous. Often, troubleshooting a problem with the finished ......
- Ductile iron hub.
Gunite Corp. has unveiled a new generation of its Ductilite, ductile iron hub that actually weighs less than an aluminum hub designed for comparable axle ......
- Section size influences properties of ductile
iron.
Ductile iron is section-sensitive, although not to the same degree as gray iron. Its properties are influenced by matrix microstructure, which, in turn, affects the ......
- Gunite ultra lightweight ductile iron hubs weigh less
than aluminum hubs. (Truck...
Gunite Corp. has unveiled a new generation of their Ductilite, ductile iron hub that actually weighs less than an aluminum hub designed for comparable axle ......
- Griffin pipe to provide more than 30,000 ft of ductile iron pipe
Griffin Pipe Products Co., Downers Grove, IL, was recently awarded two contracts to provide Citizens Utilities Company of Illinois with more than 30,000 ft of ......