62nd Indian Foundry Congress

IIF Transactions 2014

Sr. No. Paper Title Author(s) Company/Institution
1 UNIDO – ICAMT Project on Technology Upgradation and Productivity Enhancement of Foundry Industry at Coimbatore and Belgaum Govind B S UNIDO-ICAMT, Bengaluru
2 Resource Efficiency for Sustainability in Ferrous Foundries (A Case of Kolhapur MSME Cluster) E Nand Gopal, D Ramesh The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi
3 Development of Large Thickness Alloy Steel Castings for Fossil-based Power Plant Equipments Using Casting Simulation Manjunatha T.M., Tushar Dave, Lavin Agrawal, Badarinath Kalkunte Central FFP, BHEL, Haridwar, ESI India, Bengaluru Calcom ESI, Switzerland
4 Failure Investigation of Cast Diesel Electric Loco Wheel M. K. Mukhopadhyay Retd Dy Chief Chemist & Metallurgist, Indian Railways
5 Analysis of Sand Related Defects in Iron & Steel Castings- Supported by Some Industrial Case Studies & Simulation Results Tapan Roy Texmaco Rail & Engg. Ltd., Kolkata
6 Indian Foundry Industry – Opportunities and Challenges* John Flintham Amtek Auto Ltd.
7 Applying the Principle of 7-I’s to Improve Technology Transfer Thomas Prucha American Foundry Society, USA
8 Post-Recession Growth from 2011 and beyond : Continual Growth or Caution? Satyen Prabhu / Graham Cooper Inductotherm, USA
9 Foundry Industry – Global Scenario* Andrew Turner FESA, UK
10 Indian Aluminium Casting Industries : Prospects & Problems* Prof. KSS Murthy Aluminium Association of India, Bengaluru
11 The Importance of Process Control in Aluminium Foundries Andy Moores Foseco Europe, C/o. Foseco India Ltd, Pune
12 Advancements in Phenolic Urethane Technology for Aluminium Castings V.Varghese, Joe Muniza ASK-Chemicals India, Pune
13 How to Solve Shrinkage Porosity in the Aluminum Gravity Die Castings? — (A shop floor experience, and 4 case studies). Muthiah Thirugnanam Chennai
14 Green Manufacturing Surya Prakash Brakes India Ltd, Sholinghur, TN.
15 Green Foundry Initiatives at Ammarun Foundries N. Visvanathan Ammarun Foundries, Coimbatore
16 Controlling Internal Pollution in a Modern Foundry Joydip Ghosh, Saurav Kumar Disa India Ltd, Bengaluru
17 Foundry Metallurgy Park – with Contifur as a Source of Molten Iron Ram Singh, Mukesh Bhandari Electrotherm (India) Ltd, Ahmedabad
18 Predictive Control : One Step Ahead in Automated Pouring with a Stopper Herve Doisy Foseco Europe
19 New Variant Silica Mix for Modern Coreless Induction Furnace Andrew Fowler Calderys Refractories Solutions, Europe
20 Advances in Melting Technology through Vacuum Degassing and Controlled Atmosphere Furnaces Prakash Chaubal Inductotherm India Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad
21 Latest Trends in Die Design by Exploiting Design & Simulation Software Jayesh M. Rathod Godrej Tooling Div. Vikhroli, Mumbai
22 Innovation in Magnesium Alloys Component Casting Technology U.T.S. Pillai NIIST, CSIR, Thiruvanathapuram
23 Studies to Improve the Mechanical Properties of 319 Aluminium Alloy by Magnesium Addition M. C. Shaji, K. K. Ravikumar, M. Ravi and K. Sukumaran CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
24 Foundry Project Planning – Some Pit Falls Ziauddin Amtek Auto Ltd., New Delhi
25 Optimising Productivity in Foundry Laxman Sundar Neosym Industry Ltd., Pune
26 An Overview of the Automated Pouring Process William R. Pflug Inductotherm, USA
27 Changes, Challenges & Solution of Foundry Industry Dr. Nithyanand Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Coimbatore
30 Foundry Consultant – Your Friend Indeed Gyanendra Srivastava, R. C. Kothari Jaipur, and Vadodara
29 Growth Assurance – In Uncertain Economic Times Dilip K. Pithadia Pithadia Foundation, USA
30 Cooling Curve Analysis – A Mature Melt Quality Control Technique – WEBINAR (from USA) Prof. Doru Stefanescu Ohio State Uni., and Unviersity of Alabama, USA
31 Effect of Mould Rotation Speed and Pouring Temperature on Hardness and Tensile Strength of Eutectic Al-Si alloy in Vertical Centrifugal Casting Vikram B. Patel, Prof. J. L. Juneja, Prof. K. Babapai U. V. Patel College of Engineering. Ganpat University (Guj.)
32 Development of High Strength Al-Zn-Mg Alloys for Automotive Application P. K. Mandal, P. K. Ghosh IIT Roorkee, MMED UK
33 Study of Solute Effect on Grain Refinement of Al Alloys Dr. Ashok Sharma Malavaiya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
34 Thermal Analysis of LM-20 Alloy Dr.S. M. Jigajinni, S. A. Kori, K. Venkateswarlu Basaveshwar Engg. College Bagalkot (Karnataka)
35 Experiences in Developing eLearning Training Modules for Green Sand Practice on Bentonite Steve Robinson Amcol, USA
36 Study of Shrinking Characteristics of Grey Iron Inoculated with Different Inoculants Oddvar Knustad, Lena Magnusson Åberg. Elkem AS, Norway
37 A New Perspective on Metal Flow Characteristics of Ductile Iron V. S. Saravanan Indo Shell Cast Pvt Ltd. Coimbatore
38 Shell Process – Transition from Warm Coating to Hot Coating Technique Dipak Ghosh Forace Polymers Pvt. Ltd, Haridwar
39 New Refractory Technology for Melting Iron & Steel Alloys in CIF (T) Pete Satre, Charles Essman Allied Mineral Products, Inc., USA
40 3D Printing Technology to produce Moulds / Cores Layer by Layer* (T) Said Omar ExOne GmbH, Germany
41 Castings – Get them Right … Every time!! With ProCAST/QuikCAST* (T) Marco Aloe ESI, Switzerland
42 Towards an Energy Efficient Iron Foundry : Examples of Energy Savings in an Existing Plant* David Mertens South Africa
43 Best Practices for the Production of Investment Castings Danilo Frulli Imerys, Europe
44 Design of an investment casting foundry: Vivek Sangle Incastt Machines, Mysore
45 Custom Implants for Mandible, using Rapid Prototyping-assisted Casting Dr. A. M. Kuthe Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur
46 Effect of Feeders on Distortion of Investment-cast Product Prof. (Mrs) Sangita Bansode,Dr. V. M. Phalle, Dr. S S Mantha K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidya Vihar, Mumbai
47 Investment Casting – Vision 2020* Manthan Oza Modtech, Ahmedabad
48 Activity Based Costing (ABC) Concept on Foundry Industries Prof. Shanthanu Ahmedabad
49 Effect of Pre-Conditioning in Grey & Ductile Iron Kumar Kislay, Souvik C, Nadimuthu S.,Srikanth Sivaraman Snam Alloys Pvt. Ltd., Hosur (TN)
50 Carbides in Ductile Iron Castings Prof. S. K. Paknikar Pune
51 Computer Aided Casting Simulation Software – A Right Tool to get Riserless Ductile Iron Castings Dr. Goutam Sutradhar Jadavpur University, Kolkata
52 Tabletop Integrated Melting, Pouring and Data Acquisition System for Training and Research Purposes Himanshu Khandelwal, B. Ravi IIT Bombay, Mumbai
53 A hybrid Approach for Casting Process Simulation by Combining FEM and VEM for Defect Minimization with Experimental Validation C. M. Choudhari, B. E. Narkhede, S. K. Mahajan V.J.T.I., Mumbai
54 Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Austempered Gray Cast Iron Tanmoy Sarkar, S. Kayal, R. Beherab, S. Haidar, G. Sutradhar Jadavpur University, Kolkata and other institutions
55 Effect of Inoculants and Wall Thickness on Structure – Properties of Spheroidal Graphite Cast Iron Dr. K. K. Singh NIFFT, Ranchi
56 Proactive Fail Safe Roadmap: Need of Medium Scale Foundry Upendra Desai KOEL, Pune
* Text of these papers has not been received. Respective Author will make his presentation in Tech Papers Session.
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