AFS Marketing Div. and DIMG promote casting design & application at SAE World Congress & Expo. (Metalcasting Associations).The AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System Marketing Div. promoted the casting process last month at the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE International (SAE) is a professional organization for mobility engineering professionals in aerospace, automotive and the commercial vehicle industries. The Society is a standards development organization for the engineering of powered vehicles of all kinds, including (SAE) World Congress & Expo, the world's largest automotive technology Noun 1. automotive technology - the activity of designing and constructing automobiles automotive engineering engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry industry exhibition and congress. Held March 4-7 in Detroit's Cobo Hall Cobo Hall, officially Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center, is a convention center situated in downtown Detroit, Michigan, USA. It and the adjacent Cobo Arena are named for Albert E. Cobo, mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957. , the event drew 37,000 industry officials from across the globe to view the latest technologies and products available to the transportation industries. Making its third consecutive appearance as an exhibitor, AFS teamed this year with the Ductile Iron Ductile iron, also called ductile cast iron or nodular cast iron, is a type of cast iron invented in 1943 by Keith Millis[1]. While most varieties of cast iron are brittle, ductile iron is much more ductile, as the name implies. Marketing Group (DIMG) to share a 400-sq-ft exhibit on the main show floor. Manning the exhibit on behalf of AFS were Mike Lessiter, Alfred Spada and Rolf Petersen of Engineered Casting Solutions. Gene Muratore and Jim Mullins represented DIMG. The exhibit featured an array of transportation casting examples from the Engineered Casting Solutions/AFS Marketing Div's 2002 Casting Contest, as well as magazines, metalcasting CD-ROMs and other literature on casting processes and materials. In addition, the DIMG featured its ductile iron twistbar demonstration. AFS Technical's Steve Robison also organized a full day of sessions on "Design Considerations for Automotive Castings" within the SAE Congress. Presenters included Spada, AFS; Mileta Tomovic, Purdue Univ. Michael Gwyn, Advanced Technology Institute; John Jorstad, JLJ JLJ Junior League of Jackson (Jackson, MS) Technologies; Rick Gundlach, Climax Research Services; and Alan Druzchitz, Intermet Corp. Papers are available through SAE. The sessions concluded with a panel on "Changing Trends in Automotive Casting Technologies." Moderated by Lessiter, AFS, the panel featured Alan Steffe, GM Powertrain; David Weiss, Eck Industries, Inc.; Clayton Sloss, Wescast Industries, Inc.; and Gary Ruff, Intermet Corp. |
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