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Beginning in 2021, AFS Corporate Member Grede, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, drafted the blueprints for an all-encompassing Industry 4.0 infrastructure for two years.

With every quote you receive from a foundry, there will most likely be a line item specifying the tooling required to produce your casting along with its estimated cost.

Manufacturing output per hour in the U.S. has grown at an average of just 0.2% a year since 2009, according to the U.S. Labor Department—below the non-manufacturing U.S.

As I walked through the brand new Charlotte Pipe foundry during it’s grand opening last month, I thought to myself this was a great way to cap off the year.