Working in conjunction with the American Metalcasting Consortium (AMC), Alfred Spada, AFS director of marketing, communications & public relations, helped teach a day-long class on casting design for 20 designers working at Watervliet Arsenal/Benet Laboratories, Watervliet, N.Y. This was the second class designed for the U.S. military that AFS helped lead.

The U.S. Department of Defense, through AMC, has identified effective casting design as an invaluable tool to reduce costs and improve the readiness of the U.S. military. These classes teach military design engineers how to more effectively design castings and how to redesign forgings and fabrications to castings, increasing the functionality of their end-products.

AMC is developing innovative new metalcasting technology and processes in support of the Defense Logistics Agency's rapid procurement of cast parts. AMC consists of the four metalcasting industry associations: American Foundry Society, North American Die Casting Association, Non Ferrous Founders' Society, and Steel Founders Society of America. Visit www.amc.aticorp.org for more information.