The historical Palais des Congrès in Bordeaux, France, was the location for the European Investment Casters’ Federation Technical Workshop for Foundry Engineers held from 22nd to 24th September 2013. The workshop was an opportunity for quality and technical engineers from across Europe to meet, discuss and inform each other of the issues affecting development and materials used in the investment casting process. Phil Hancock, accompanied at the workshop by Ron Williams, Keith Batchelor, and Matthew Williams from Blayson, gave a presentation entitled The Benefits of a Systematic Approach to Wax Quality Assurance. This presentation detailed the advantages of process-based testing when applied to wax products. It also reviewed the role of new technologies within quality assurance and systems engineering. Current and future improvements to quality assurance systems involving the use of new techniques, such as the use of Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) for example, were discussed giving the attendees of the workshop an insight into The Blayson Group’s innovative process related testing developments. The paper presented by Phil is available in the Downloads area.

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