Columns: Design details

According to suppliers in the oil and gas industry, stabbing guides help workers align two sections of tubing, drill pipe, or casing for male-to-female connections.

The binderless sand casting vacuum process (also referred to as V-process) offers a tremendous amount of freedom to design engineers.

A carefully-designed and engineered casting can assist the manufacturing engineer with tremendous time, floor space, and cost savings.

The part in this example was originally a copper sand casting in the late 1960s. After that, the foundry created the part by machining and welding it out of solid billet.