2018 Additive Manufacturing for Metalcasting Conference

Monday, September 10, 2018
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Registration
1 - 4:30 p.m.
Tours of University of Louisville Rapid Prototyping Center and UL’s Additive Manufacturing Competency Center

Tim Gornet, Professor at University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
7 - 8 a.m.
Registration/Breakfast
8 - 8:15 a.m.
Welcome, Conference Chair

Brandon Lamoncha, Humtown Products, Columbia, OH
8:15 - 9 a.m.
KEYNOTE: Additive Manufacturing-The Path to Production

Ron Walling, Cummins, Columbus, IN
9 - 9:30 a.m.
Decision Process for Purchasing Your Own Machine

Dylan Kleitz, Bremen Castings Inc., Bremen, IN  
9:30 - 10 a.m.
Conventional Cores Converted to 3D Printed in Production

Brandon Lamoncha, Humtown Products, Columbia, OH
10 - 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
Using a 3D Sand Printer─Lessons Learned

Doug Trinowski, HA International, Westmont, IL
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
State of AM Standards in Metalcasting Applications

Sheku Kamara, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI
11:15 - 11:45 a.m.
Designing for Printing vs Conventional - Case Studies

Aaron Kepler, Caterpillar Inc., Mapleton, IL
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
3D Printed Smart Molds for Sand Casting

Eric MacDonald, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
12:15 - 1 p.m.
Lunch
1 - 1:15 p.m.
AFS Activities and Vision 3D Printing for Sand Casting

Jiten Shah, Product Development & Analysis, Naperville, IL
1:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Casting Design for Part Consolidation

Jiten Shah, Product Development & Analysis, Naperville, IL
1:45 - 2:15 p.m.
Phenolic and Large Format Printing for Volume Production

Aaron Howard, Voxeljet, Canton, MI
2:15 - 2:30 p.m.
Break
2:30 - 3 p.m.
How Robotic 3D Printing Is Transforming Metalcasting

Howard Rhett, Viridis3D, Woburn, MA
3 - 3:30 p.m.
What's Needed for Next-Generation 3D Sand Printers

Rick Lucas, ExOne, Irwin, PA
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Case Study: Digital Patternmaking

Ted Kahaian, TEI, Livonia, MI
3:45 - 4 p.m.
Case Study: Printed Ceramic Media for Narrow Opening Products

Marshall Miller, Flowserve, Irving, TX
4 - 4:15 p.m.
Case Study: Sand vs. Investment Casting: Making the Decision

Jerry Thiel, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Case Study: Printed Sand Molds for Impellers

S.Ethan Edwards, Trident Alloys Inc., Springfield, MA
4:30 p.m.
Case Study: Applying 3D Sand Printing and the Benefits You Can Achieve

Dave Rittmeyer, Hoosier Pattern, Decatur, IN
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
8 - 8:45 a.m.
AFS Activities and Vision: 3D Printed Tooling

Marshall Miller, Flowserve, Irving, TX
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.
The State of the Art in Plastic 3D Printing for Pattern Manufacturing

Clay Guillory, Titan Robotics, Colorado Springs, CO
9:15 - 9:45 a.m.
Scanning Old Patterns and Creating New Patterns

Carl Berube, Celero Partners, Woburn, MA
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Laser Scanning Pattern Tools for Conversion to 3D CAD Models

Thomas Claus, Flowserve USA, Houston, TX
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 - 11 a.m.
Hybrid and Tooled Printing

Doug Imrie, Southern Cast Products, Jonesboro, AR
11 - 11:30 a.m.
3D Printed Tools

Tom Renk, Alliant Castings, Winona MN
11:30 a.m. - Noon
Matchplates and Tools

Garrett Iverson, Scenic Industries LLC, Chattanooga, TN
Noon - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch & Meet With Exhibitors
1:15 - 1:45 p.m.
An African Experience: Challenges of Additive Manufacturing in a Foundry in Nigeria

Vassily Oye Barberopoulos, Nigerian Foundries Ltd., Lagos, Nigeria
1:45 - 2:15 p.m.
3D Printed Tools for Lost Foam Casting

Marshall Miller, Flowserve Corp., Irving, TX
2:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Statistical Analysis of Sand Molds and Castings From 3D Printed Plastic Patterns

Will Shambley, Metal Fish LLC, North Chelmsford, MA  
2:45 - 3 p.m.
Break
3 - 3:45 p.m.
Direct Metal Printing Technologies for Metalcasting

Richard Huff, GE Additive, West Chester, OH
3:45 - 4:15 p.m.
FDM 3D Printing in Sand & Investment Casting

Marshall Miller, Flowserve, Irving, TX
4:15 p.m.
Ask the Expert Panel: Experiences and Trials Using 3D Printing for Tooling

Reverse Engineering & Creating 3D
Tom Claus, Flowserve USA, Inc., Houston, TX

Nigerian Foundry for Printing Tools
Vassily Oye, Nigerian Foundries Ltd., Lagos, Nigeria

Printing Tools
Garrett Iverson, Scenic Industries, Chattanooga, TN
5 - 6:30 p.m.
Networking Reception and Table Top Exhibits
Thursday, September 13, 2018
8 - 8:15 a.m.
AFS Activities and Vision for AM Expendable Pattern Committee

Tom Mueller, Committee Chair; Mueller AMS, New Berlin, WI
8:15 - 8:45 a.m.
Are Printed Patterns Viable for Production?

Sharon Weaver, 3D Systems, Rock Hill, SC
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.
Casting Prototype PLA Investment Casting Patterns Built Using the Material Extrusion Process

Scott Reed, Flowserve Corporation, Dayton, OH  
9:15 - 9:45 a.m.
Printed Ceramic Patterns?

Tom Mueller, Mueller AMS, New Berlin, WI
9:45 - 10 a.m.
Break
10 - 10:30 a.m.
Printed Patterns for Creating Monuments

Eyal Chernichovsky, FORM, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Portland, OR
10:30 - 11 a.m.
An Investigation Into the Effect of Hollowing Printed Investment Casting Patterns to Reduce Shell Cracking in the Autoclave

Tom Mueller, Mueller AMS, New Berlin, WI
11 a.m.
Development and Use of Printed Ceramic Cores Using a DLP Process

Bob Morris, Renaissance Services, Fairborn, OH