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I was recently watching a television program on how a particular casting was made, and the narrator stated, “A worker pours molten metal into a mold and shakes out a casting when the metal has cool

In a mini drone cast by AFS Corporate Member Aristo Cast Inc. (Almont, Michigan), 3D printed wax patterns and generative design were used to achieve a complex support structure.

In my last column, we discussed the conditions propelling a significant global supply chain shift and the positive trend toward localization that is increasing the rate of reshoring by U.S.

The thousands of professionals who buy, specify and design parts are in many ways the under-appreciated heroes of the industrial supply chain.