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DOE officials tour Cast-Fab to see OIT study in action. (Industry News).


Caption: At Cast-Fab Technologies, Inc., Cincinnati, Russ Bushman, Cast-Fab executive vice president; Donald Huizenga, 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
 president; Denise Swink, U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) deputy assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy Renewable energy utilizes natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, and hydroelectricity to biomass and biofuels for transportation. ; David Garmon, DOE assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy; and Scott Oyen, Cast-Fab vice president of sales, stand inside a 1.5 Mw iron casting for a wind turbine generator. The two DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) A message protocol in Windows that allows application programs to request and exchange data between them automatically.

DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange
 officials visited Cast-Fab to see how an Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT OIT Organización Internacional del Trabajo (Spanish: International Labor Organization)
OIT Organisation Internationale du Travail (International Labour Organization)
OIT Office of Information Technology
) metalcasting research study on iron machinability was being applied on the shop floor.

The officials also visited Willard Industries, Inc., Cincinnati, to see how lost foam research is being implemented in that operation.
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Title Annotation:Office of Industrial Technologies
Publication:Modern Casting
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 1, 2002
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