Casting buyers generally seek professional advice and help to make a decision between different types of casting alloys or processes. Experts cannot make choices for them but can only provide information, which will help the buyers to make an informed decision. However, the information required to make an informed decision is huge and with the variety of ways available to design a casting, the decision process can be very difficult.
In collaboration with American Foundry Society, Product Development & Analysis LLC has developed a tool to help casting buyers and designers determine which particular alloy and casting process suits best to their specific metal casting designs. This tool is known as Casting Alloy & Process Selector (CAPS) Tool . The casting buyer is just required to enter the basic data about the metal (if available - weight, alloy, wall thickness, surface finish, production volume), and the tool will present the different casting process.
The tool gives the results on the basis of data, facts and information stored in it and provides industry averages that cannot be considered absolute. Though the tool helps the casting buyers and designers to narrow down their choices, the user should contact the manufacturer for specific as different manufacturers have different capacities
