ProCAST
ProCAST
Simulate Sand Casting Processes
Leveraging over 30 years of experience, ProCAST is a best-in-class casting simulation software, enabling foundries to evaluate, validate and master their casting processes, down to fine-tuning multiple process variations. Leading OEMs and several foundries have embraced ESI’s casting simulation solution to minimize trials, improve yields and maximise their margins.
- ProCAST integrates advanced physics yet delivers accurate results in a very short time.
- Extensive Material Database spanning most alloys (Cast Iron, Steel, Al, Cu, Mg, Ni) and molding materials (Molds, Cores, Ceramics, Filters, Insulation & Exothermic Sleeves) to best support the specific needs of sand & shell casting processes.
- Intuitive User Environment with dedicated Foundry Application Oriented Workflows.
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Optimize Quality & Costs, Ensure Castabibility, Improve Gating & Feeding System, Reduce Trials
Here’s an overview of the benefits that our casting simulation software brings to the sand casting foundry teams of manufacturing engineering, production, and quality:
Estimate castability risks early by facilitating 'Design for Manufacturing', and bridging the gap between OEMs and their suppliers
- Enable co-design to achieve the best castability
- Evaluate numerous design alternatives at an early stage (including materials influencing quality specification)
- Assess critical areas to achieve specific mechanical characteristics
- Reduce process development time to produce sound casting with optimal costs and lead-time
Enable simulation-based design for manufacturing processes
- Find the optimum molding layout, maximizing metal-to-sand ratios
- Design the right feeding and gating systems maximizing the yield
- Assess new materials thanks to integrated Thermodynamic Databases computing material properties based on the user-defined chemical composition
Achieve desired part integrity from the first produced part
- Simulate filling sequences
- Prevent mold erosion risks, enable inclusion tracking
- Reduce scrap rates by avoiding defects, including porosity defects
- Predict the effect of expansion on porosity for cast iron
- Determine the right production process window
- Track residual stresses, control dimensional tolerances
- Assess critical areas to achieve specific mechanical characteristics
Predict part performance down to its microstructure
- Use dedicated micro-models for grey iron, CGI, guctile iron, and Ni-resist alloy grades
- Simulate expansion depending on the grade of cast iron (chemical composition), metal treatment (inoculation), and cooling rates (microstructure evolution)
- Investigate mechanical properties
- Anticipate the effects of heat treatment
ProCAST empowers Ironcastings to achieve “rightweight” parts while reducing material costs
Ironcastings SPA is an Italian foundry specializing in the manufacturing of casting parts made of grey iron, ductile iron, and austempered ductile iron (ADI). Using the ProCAST software for sand casting simulation for a particularly complex part has helped the company solve metallurgical problems, and save around 0.3€ per kilo of the final net weight of the casting, translating to overall savings of over 400,000 Euros annually.
