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Maintaining the level of quality engineered into the casting process is the key to obtaining high levels of casting quality.

Does this scenario sound familiar? After years of procuring numerous commodities during your purchasing career, you’ve been assigned to be the casting buyer for your organization.

Everyone has annual goals and objectives.

If you think back to all the discussions you have had with your foundry, I’m sure the subject of the gating system has probably come up.