OREANDA-NEWS. April 15, 2008. OAO KAMAZ-Metallurgy purchased a ProCAST casting process simulation software by the French developer ESI group.

The main advantage of the program is an opportunity to simulate practically all casting processes and to send the results of the calculation to the R&D Center for a durability analysis of a component. Potential defects are seen already in a 3D-model of a casting that allows to eliminate defects in the first stage without costly blanking operation and full-scale tests.

The first casting on which the potential of ProCAST was tested was “a drive axis of a high-pressure fuel pump” (steel casting). According to Nail Gimadeyev, Production Manager of the Foundry, for the Foundry designed for mass production the program will allow to reduce the terms of preproduction when developing new castings, to supply experimental areas in production where short-run batches could be founded. Tests are carried out virtually without investments into equipment for test runs. And a suitable casting can be made with minimal improvement of equipment.