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You'Ll Never Work Alone

Castle HPDC Simulation - Expert System for PiQ2 optimisation

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PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DIE CASTING


DATA IMPORT FROM A VARIETY OF CAD SYSTEMS
(including Step, Parasolid, STL, IGES, SolidWorks™, SolidEdge™
and Catia™ and many others)

 IRECT DATA INPUT OF CASTING GEOMETRY


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(volumes, thicknesses, areas)

 ODEL PREPARATION IN A MINUTE, OPTIMIZATION


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CALCULATION IN A SECOND

OPTIMIZATION OF DIE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE

INTERACTIVE PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS

 DVANCED MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS ARE TRANSLATED


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INTO A USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE

VENTING AND VACUUM CALCULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

PiQ2 | Developing Expertise


Castle MIND is an innovative software solution that presents advanced mathematical concepts within an interface
designed to make the software very user friendly.

The software technical advantage stems from the use of mathematical rules derived from fluid dynamic principles
and foundry or moulding experience that are used to evaluate and
supplement the theoretical formulae.

The results of the calculations are expressed in a way that makes the
results comprehensible and useful even for operators with no a specific
technical background.

The software is able to


identify both critical die
design features and wrong
process parameter. It
suggests how to optimize
them to avoid or reduce
quality issues during
production.

All the advice is provided


in common foundry
language rather than by
numbers or formulas.

CASTLE MIND IS INNOVATION IN


SIMULATION
Additional design tool for the casting
die maker that:
 pplies highly advanced
A
scientific and mathematical
theories using well known terms
in the foundry
Provides extremely practical
results in real time with no need
to wait for days or hours.
Not only identifies the problems
but also suggests how to
solve them
Not only provides a simulation
of a standard situation but
it forecasts the real working
scenario of the given tool on the
given machine.

Castle MIND
FOR DIE CASTLE MIND provides the the optimal venting area Optimizes the plunger
ability to: for a given setup. diameter and gets the
MAKERS AND PART moulding parameters for
DESIGNERS Optimize dimension and Supply information on the given mould/machine
shape of the gates in how to make the mould combination.
relation to the expected perform to its maximum
quality specifications for potential (through PQ² Compile the machine
the casting, its geometry, diagram) and according parameters datasheet
type of alloy and the to the kind of installed (injection strokes, plunger
performance of the die equipment and the speed and pressure) as a
casting equipment. operating conditions faced. guideline to be sent to the
It helps to decide whether foundry or used for realistic
Predict and evaluate the it is necessary to thermo filling simulations.
air venting performance regulate or raise the
both for passive (chill temperature of the die.
vent) or active (vacuum)
configuration and suggest

FOR THE CASTLE MIND provides potential solutions. poorly calculated and
the ability to: inadequate gating areas.
FOUNDRYMEN Increase casting quality
Optimize production (also in terms of porosity Reduce setup costs
providing optimal injection and surface finishing) related to casting
parameters, slow and and, more importantly, modifications needed due
fast shot velocity and to maintain it extremely to defects detected (i.e.
strokes, shot sleeve stable over time being gate area changes) during
diameter, furnace and die influenced in only a small the sampling process.
temperature in order to way by temperature
maximize part quality and and alloy composition Extend mould cycle life
reduce setup time. fluctuations, in addition by optimizing both die
to other indeterminable geometry and process
Facilitate the detection factors. injection parameters in
of a failure root cause order to avoid washout,
whether because of the Reduce die wear and erosion and die wear
mould, teh machinery or metallization phenomena, phenomena.
the process and advise frequently caused by

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