Die Casting Process Control
 
Good process control is essential to keeping your plant running well. To realize the full potential of the die casting process, one must have both electro-hydraulic-mechanical feed-back control devices and the process engineering and operating skills to use those devices properly. The degree of process control that can be routinely applied today is several times that of just a few years ago and must be applied to the process if the die caster is to compete in the market place.
 
The purpose of this book is to show the processing engineer and operating technician what type of control method is applicable to each of the die casting machine/die/process systems, how to measure the performance of each critical variable, compare actual performance to the desired and to adjust the actual performance to meet the desired. The assumption is made that the reader knows how the machine and die systems work and that everything is working properly and can therefore be adjusted as necessary to achieve the desired results.
 
The reader will find this edition more definitive and focused than the previous editions.
 
Item #E-410, 67 pages, 2003.
 

Die Casting Process Engineering and Control

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction to Control Theory
Measuring Process Capability
Statistical Process Control
Holding Furnace Temperature
Injection Velocity & Force
Clamping Force
Die Temperature
Release Material
Casting Ejection Temperature
Cycle Timing
Mechanical Die System
Implementation
Process Potential