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Process innovation through smart factory strategies is urgently needed in the flow of digital transformation, not just automation. As customer needs become diverse and industrial structures become more complex, production volume per item is rapidly decreasing. According to these market changes, interest in 3D printing is increasing. In this paper, novel methodologies for merging sand 3D printing technology into metal casting processes for foundry innovation were proposed. To see how effective the new approach is, we actually applied it to the mass production process of a medium-speed engine piston. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach that can increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce production costs.
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This paper is an invited submission to IJMC selected from presentations at the 74th World Foundry Congress, held October 16 to 20, 2022, in Busan, Korea, and has been expanded from the original presentation. This study was conducted as part of the project (No. 10076342) that received funding from the Advanced Technology Center Industrial Technology Innovation Program by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea and the project (S3262661) that received funding from the SME Technology Innovation & Development Program (Hidden Champion 100) by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Korea.
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Han, KH., Baek, JW., Lim, T.W. et al. Digital Transformation of Metal Casting Process Using Sand 3D Printing Technology with a Novel Methodology of Casting Design Inside a Core. Inter Metalcast 17, 2674–2679 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40962-023-01088-5
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