SoftCAST
SoftCAST™ is a multi-award-winning metal-casting-simulation software package for foundries and investment-casting facilities. SoftCAST™ allows engineers to simulate the behavior of the casting process during manufacture, which is often used to predict, in a virtual world, potential casting defects and quality issues within the cast part. The design modules in SoftCAST™ facilitate the easy development of both new products and new processes, and it provides options for the optimization of existing products and processes. The SoftCAST™ program is suitable for mass production, batch production, and jobbing lines. It has the capability to simulate a variety of casting complexities, including single- and multi-cavity mold designs, low to very high-weight castings, and cast sections whose thickness has no limit. The major differentiator between SoftCAST™ and our competitors’ products is that not only is SoftCAST™ a simulation program but it also has its own method design modules.
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Azore CFD
Azore is a computational fluid dynamics software tool for analyzing fluid flow and heat transfer. CFD provides engineers and scientists a method for analyzing a wide array of fluid mechanics, thermal, and chemical problems numerically on a computer. Many different types of fluid dynamic situations can be simulated using Azore, including air, gas, liquid, or particulate-laden flows. For liquid systems, modeling the flow of water through a piping system or evaluating water velocity profiles around submerged objects are common uses of Azore. The flow of air or gases can also be analyzed such as simulating the ambient air velocity profiles of wind as it passes around buildings or investigating the flow and heat transfer inside a room, duct system, mechanical equipment, or industrial process. Azore CFD can be used to simulate essentially any incompressible, steady-state, or transient fluid flow model, including problems that involve conjugate heat transfer and species transport.
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MAGMASOFT
MAGMASOFT ® is a comprehensive and effective optimization tool for improving metal casting quality, optimizing process conditions, and reducing production costs. Consequently utilizing the methodology of virtual Design of Experiments and Autonomous Optimization, robust process parameters and optimized casting layouts can be established for all cast materials and processes including heat treatment and melt metallurgy – efficiently and comprehensively at the same time. By means of autonomous engineering™, simulations with MAGMASOFT ® can be used in an automated virtual test plan to pursue different quality and cost objectives simultaneously. Broad knowledge and tangible hands-on instructions/measures are generated considering design and process conditions for mold filling, solidification, and cooling. The range of results comprises residual stresses and distortion, microstructure formation, and local properties.
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ProCAST
Your first off-tool parts are finally available, only for you to realize they contain pinholes, shrinkage, or hot spots. With your deadline staring you in the face, you can either ship the parts and undoubtedly deal with an unhappy customer or go back to the design stage and try to identify the problem, correct it, and hope it is finally free from defects. And because the trial period in the casting development schedule is underestimated, it is imperative to get your gating design to be robust against process variations before arriving at the testing phase. With ESI ProCAST you can cast your parts right the first time, every time –meeting your deadlines and never wasting money on scrap parts or late redesigns. For decades, customers have relied upon ProCAST as their go-to tool for the casting basics – filling, solidification, and porosity prediction. With its finite element technology, it also predicts complex issues like deformations and residual stresses.
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