- Historically, foundrymen have relied on the ‘art’ of experience and instinct based decision-making. However, not only is there a decreasing availability of domain experienced personnel and skilled manpower to manage the Greensand System, practiced as an ‘art’; the new age sand systems which churn out huge volumes of sand, molds and cores and handle multi patterns with varying Sand:Metal ratios; rarely allow visual or ‘feel’ capabilities of the system sand. Increasing automation and line speeds have necessitated corresponding digitalisation of the entire process in order to keep up with the varying production, patterns/components, Sand & Core to Metal ratios which keep the entire sand loop highly dynamic and variable as well as difficult to predict and control by simple linear co-relations based on the human experience.
- SANDMAN™ is designed especially for foundry green sand systems enabling the foundry to capture historical databases as well as current data as-it-happens. It also has the most unique feature to annotate daily and past experiences to build a knowledge base that accumulates a foundry’s experiential insights. This means that this valuable knowledge gets institutionalized to the foundry itself and doesn’t get lost with the movement of personnel and is available to all succeeding process owners without limitation.
All Product Sandman Principles
