Columns: January 2022

I’ve always found that good recordkeeping can be one of the key items to make you successful in your career. Being able to quickly find information can be highly valuable in your personal and

When I first began covering metalcasting in 2005, I was fascinated with the wide range and variety of properties that different metals and their alloys exhibit, even within the same alloy family.

Customers will at times ask why manufacturing facilities are shut down. Let’s face it: We live in an “I want the product, and I want it NOW world,” and no one wants to hear about a shutdown.

A safety-critical aluminum part was converted from an I-beam weldment to a thin-wall box section using the semi-permanent mold casting process for better structural torsional rigidity, higher load-