Foundry

Abstract

Foundry has been there always in the basis of all kinds of industry for over hundreds of years suppcrrting the progress of technology and convenience of human life. Today, we are surrounded by cast metal products such as automobile engine, components of under-carriage, agricultural machine parts, various water pump, pipe fitting, weaving machine parts, manhole cover, ashtrays and even ornamental artistic items. Cast products around us are really countless. There are many different ways to produce these varieties of castings. Most of them were started with a primitive, manual method several hundred years ago and gradually mechanized. Under the pressure of high labour cost in the recent years, the only way to survive is mechanization and automation.