A research project supported by the Region, \u201cTo create an instrument which will accurately forecast foundry defects\u201d: This is the objective of the project within the programme of \u201cregional competitiveness and employment\u201d that started a year ago.<\/p>\n
In order to limit its losses, the Zardo SpA foundry (a member of the Capleda Group) already has in place careful controls at the metalworking phase. With this new research work a further control grid is required, that through an articulated data collection system, which when then aligned with a nonlinear algorithm, results in limiting internal scrap and also further reduces the small percentage of unseen loss that can be turned into yield.<\/p>\n
There are three organisations involved: Fonderia Zardo SpA, responsible for managing the production phases, prototyping, experimentation, data collection and data base implementation; Proservice srl for the supplying of the process control software; University of Padua\u2019s department of Industrial Technique and Management, for the study of the correlation between the various production data.<\/p>\n
The advantage is naturally an economic one but above all environmental, reducing scrap means savings in production terms which then follows in a reduction in environmental impact.<\/p>\n
Moreover, there is another advantage within this system: traceability at each stage of production phase.<\/p>\n\n\t\t