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FOUNDRY ENGINEERING CONSULTING MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
CASTING DESIGN CONSULTING PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CONSULTING

The Industries We Serve:
Casting, Aerospace and Automotive, and Gas Turbine Industries
Casting Industry Calling upon the 70 years of collective experience, Foundry Support Operations offers hands-on solutions to problems affecting company goals. In addition, through our network with other experienced resources, we are able to reach out and pull in specialized experts to compliment our ability to provide solutions for your casting operations. Call on us for:

• Technical advice to improve casting quality levels, thereby reducing scrap and rework and the chances of less-than-expected casting quality reaching the customer.

• Technical assistance in identifying root causes of scrap and rework and advice on permanent corrective actions, including implementation of process controls.

• Manufacturing operations improvements; identifying constraints, improving workflow by reducing non-value-added operations, implementing key process measurements to better

understand process performance and reduce the likelihood of defective parts moving on past the point of earliest possible detection.

• Leadership development. Providing coaching advice to high-potential candidates to help them successfully develop into positions of greater responsibility.

• Lack of sufficient resources to address current business needs; e.g. not enough engineers, lack of engineering experience, lack of management depth.
Aerospace and Automotive Industries Foundry Support executives have spent many years directly working with OEM’s in a concurrent engineering mode to optimize the use of castings in their products. Combining casting know-how with an understanding of clients’ products and their functions provides clients with valuable advice needed to improve costs by utilizing castings. With respect to casting supplier delivery problems, clients can call upon the technical knowledge of Foundry Support Operations to help solve supplier quality problems. This will ultimately improve their product deliveries by having castings available when needed. Count on us for:
• Assistance in designing castings and defining quality specifications for optimized manufacturability and minimized costs.
• Having a casting expert liaison between the engineering department, procurement department and casting suppliers.
 • Having a casting expert help casting suppliers solve quality and/or delivery problems.
• Assistance in developing a business strategy for optimizing the benefits of using castings in their products.
Gas Turbine Industry The gas turbine industry encompasses Aerospace and Industrial Gas Turbine power generation (IGT), with OEM and aftermarket customers for both. Although Aerospace and IGT utilize similar technologies when it comes to castings, size often presents different challenges. Also, the OEM world is significantly different than the aftermarket and Maintenance, Overhaul and Repair (MRO) worlds. Foundry Support Operations has a foundation in the gas turbine industry having been built on working hand-in-hand with turbine manufacturers and suppliers, learning engine functionality and applying this casting expertise to help advance turbine component technology. We understand the differences between the markets and needs of each when it comes to producing castings. Gas turbine manufacturers can count on Foundry Support Operations to help provide advice as well as project coordination to solve casting challenges. We can help with:
• Assistance in designing castings and defining quality specifications for optimized manufacturability and minimized costs.
• Having a casting expert liaison between the engineering department, procurement department and casting suppliers.
 • A  project manager to coordinate the creation of electronic models, component drawings and specifications, recommend competent casting suppliers and oversee the technical aspects of procuring either finished or unfinished castings.
• Having a casting expert help casting suppliers solve quality and/or delivery problems.
   
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