Program

Sunday 19 October 2008

7.30am Golf
12.00pm Registration Desk Opens
5.00-7.00pm Welcome Address and President's Reception

Monday 20 October 2008

9.00-9.40am Melting Metals and Memories
Don Lakeland
9.40-10.20am Die Casting Markets Data, Trends and Opportunities
Bruce Gunn, CAST CRC
10.20-10.40am Morning Tea
10.40-11.20am Production of Iron Castings Utilizing a New Generation of Feeding Systems
Phil Dahlstrom, Foseco
11.20-12.00pm Bioremediation treatment of Hydrocarbons
Gareth James, Dickinsons Environmental
12.00-12.40pm Factors influencing gas porosity defects in grey cast iron
Ulf Gotthardsson, Swecast
12.40-1.50pm Lunch
1.50-2.30pm Chunky graphite in thick section Ductile Iron
Chris Ecob, Elkem
2.30-3.10pm Casting Failure Analysis: A Case Study
Steve van der Lit & Monty Luke, Amdel
3.10-3.30pm Afternoon Tea
3.30-4.10pm Trade Evolution. Let's see how far we have come
Anthony Freemantle, SkillsTech
4.10-4.50pm "Training Australia" - A study of those bloody Training Packages
Les Johnson, SkillsTech & Mark Dawson, CMS
7.00pm AFI Tribal Dinner

Tuesday 21 October 2008

9.00-9.40am The Survival of Patternmaking Towards 2010
Kevin Beasley, K&L Beasley Patternmaking
9.40-10.20am Practical epoxy chemistry for the pattern shop & the latest tooling techniques of other industries
Nicholas Cossich, ATL Composites
10.20-10.40am Morning Tea
10.40-11.20am The Importance of using Coatings in the Metal Casting process
Martin Spence, CMC Australia
11.20-12.00pm Methoding Manganese Steel
Barry Wingfield, Foseco International
12.00-12.40pm Failure Modes Associated with Foundry Tensile Test Bars
Steve van der Lit & Monty Luke, Amdel
12.40-1.50pm Lunch
1.50-2.30pm Ground Leakage Detection
Merv Atcheson, Inductotherm
2.30-3.10pm Carbophen - CO2 process
Klaus Loechte, Huettenes-Albertus
3.10-3.30pm Afternoon Tea
3.30-4.10pm Sand reclamation
Keith Carter, BC Maintenance
4.10-4.50pm The Basic Principles of Alkaline Phenolic Binder Systems
John Mills, Hexion
5.00-6.00pm Happy Hour

Wednesday 22 October 2008

9.00-9.40am European legislation on Hand Arm Vibration
Andy Duggan, Atlas Copco
9.40-10.20am Metal Bridging
Merv Atcheson, Inductotherm
10.20-10.40am Morning Tea
10.40-11.20am Non-Ferrous and Stainless Steel Scrap Procurement
Trent Raines, Sell & Parker
11.20-12.00pm The Increasing Importance of Ladle Lining Technology in the Modern Ferrous Foundry
Nick Child, Foseco Europe
12.00-12.40pm Benefits of Isostatically pressed ceramics in non-ferrous metal casting industry
Eric Chen, Vesuvius
12.40-1.50pm Lunch
1.50-2.30pm Robotic Fettling of Castings and Energy Monitoring in Melting
Clyde Campbell, Machinery Automation & Robotics
2.30-3.10pm Future trends in Filter Flow Modeling
Phil Dahlstrom, Foseco
3.10-3.30pm Afternoon Tea
3.30-4.10pm The Power of Qualitative Leadership
Doug Harland, Doug Harland Consulting
4.10-4.50pm AFI AGM
7.00pm Convention Banquet