Job shop regains control of pouring process with automatic pouring ladle.Job Shop Regains Control of Pouring Process with Automatic Pouring Ladle--When it was time for The Dotson Co., Mankato Mankato (mănkā`tō), city (1990 pop. 31,477), seat of Blue Earth co., S Minn., at the confluence of the Blue Earth and Minnesota rivers; inc. 1865. It is a trade and processing center for a farm and dairy region. , Minn., to upgrade the equipment it uses to pour gray and 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. castings, the firm had one goal--reduce variation and physical requirements. The best way to do that is through automation. But for a green sand job shop, options for automatic pouring ladles were almost non-existent. Then Dotson came across the EconoPour ladle from Roberts Sinto Corp., Lansing, Mich. In July, the firm became the first job shop in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. to have an automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. tilt-pour ladle designed specifically to meet the production requirements of job shops. |
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