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• Die Casting Process
• Die Cast Tooling Engineering
• General Interest
• Machine Maintenance
• NADCA and Die Casting Industry
• Operations Management
• Plant Engineering
• Political and Philosophy
• Problem Solving & Quality
• Post Casting Operations, Trimming and Machining
• Sales & Marketing
• Training

• Die Casting Process

• When Do You Begin Process Development? (When do you start Your Project Timeline?); (March 2020)

• I Love the Smell of Die Lube in the Morning!, (May 2020)

• Cold Chamber Percent of FIll

• Die Casting Flash Costs

• D.O.E./Black belt Projects

• Flash Problems, Common Problems and Recommendations

• Hot Chamber Process Improvement Tips

• Intensifier Benefits and Measurements

• Pre-Fill, What is it and How do I Manage it?

• Fine Tuning Aluminum Melt Operations and Furnace Life

• What is Advanced Technology in Die Casting? (November 2017)

• Do your "Systems" Insure your Companies Success? (Taking a second look at your Procedures.), (November 2019)

• Are there really Cost Benefits to Process Control? (May 2019)

• Cast Over: "Hot Topic" (September 2018)

• Die Cast Lubricants and Plunger Life (May 2022)

• Preventing Casting Defects Through Design and Simulation (July 2022

• Oxides are Inevitable, Hard Spots are Not! (January 2023)

• An "Element"-ary Guide to Die Casting Alloys: (Choosing the casting material that best suits your (customer's project).)_(March 2023)

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• Die Cast Tooling Engineering

• CAD CAM: Computer Modeling and Simulations, Your Unanswered Question (July 2021)

• Die Casting Die Tool Steel

• Improving Core Pin Life

• Sprues, the Long and the Short of it

• Tooling Development Tips

• Trim Tooling Tips

• Don't Miss the Point of Doing a Simulation

• Overflows, Vents and Simulation

• Tool Steel and the Small Block Chevy V8 (long run tools vs the annual changeover)

• Simulation: When is Enough, Enough? (July 2019)

• What are you Waiting For? (January 2020)

• Preventing Casting Defects Through Design and Simulation (July 2022

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• General Interest

• Bob McClintic Bio

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• Machine Maintenance

• Die Casting Cells

• Die Casting Machine Controls

• What's the News from the Die Casting/Manufacturing Floor? (September 2021)

• Linkage and Foundation Preparation

• Low Cost Machine PM That Pays Off

• Tie Bars & Platens

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• NADCA and Die Casting Industry

• 2014 Congress & Table Top Commentary

• Observations on the status of Industry in North American

• Zinc Die Casters in North America

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• Operations Management

• Apprenticeships

• Re-thinking Die Casting Employee Training and Education, (May 2021)

• Attracting the Next Generation of Management

• Even You Can Afford an Intern (March 2022)

• Consultants, who needs them?

• Family Businesses and Management Style

• Is it Time to GIve your Shop a Tune Up?

• Launch Management

• Is Your Company full of "One Man Bands" or an Orchestra?

• Living With Change, Who do We Train and When?

• Rethinking the Ideal Candidate

• Training & Recruiting

• Volunteerism and Leadership

• What's City Planning have to do with Recruiting Employees? (Is it time to look at how you sell your company to new or prospective employees?)

• When Flexibility is a Strength

• World Class Management

• Furnaces and Metal Handling. What's the Big Deal? (January 2019)

• Cast Over: "Hot Topic" (September 2018)

• Oxides are Inevitable, Hard Spots are Not! (January 2023)

• An "Element"-ary Guide to Die Casting Alloys: (Choosing the casting material that best suits your (customer's project).)_(March 2023)

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• Plant Engineering

• Part I, Engineering the Infrastructure, Compressed Air

• Part II, Engineering the Infrastructure, Central Die Lube

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• Political and Philosophy

• The Power of One

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• Problem Solving & Quality

• Die Casting Defects: Nothing is New, or is There? (July 2020)

• D.O.E./Black belt Projects

• PPM, Defining and Calculating

• PM, Defining and Calculating (Original article)

• Practical Thoughts on Problem Solving

• Proactive design and Problem Solving Steps

• Post Casting Operations, Trimming and Machining

• Post Casting Operations

• Reshoring and Secondary Operations in a Die Casting Company (September 2022)

• Additive Manufacturing: Tooling, casting or process? (November 2022)

• Sales & Marketing

• Defining the "Perfect" Casting

• Helping to Customer Choose the Casting Material

• Launch Management

• Negotiating Quality Criteria & Solving Problems by Design

• New Product Development

• Niche Market for Zinc

• Why Not Magnesium and Zinc?

• Structural Die Castings

• Training our Customers

• Decoding "Design Intent": What did the Engineer really need?

• Reshoring and Secondary Operations in a Die Casting Company (September 2022)

• Additive Manufacturing: Tooling, casting or process? (November 2022)

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• Training

• Apprenticeships

• Living With Change, Who do We Train and When?

• Planting seeds of future success

• Re-thinking Die Casting Employee Training and Education, (May 2021)

• Senior Employees and Succession Training

• Tooling Development Tips

• Training & Recruiting

• What's Your Training Budget for Future Success?

• Even You Can Afford an Intern (March 2022)

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Updated: March 14, 2023

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