Foundry & casting

Foundry & casting covers foundry, die casting, investment casting and aluminium casting.

Typical requirements include pattern, core and mould, furnace, heat and melt, alloy composition, heat number and casting batch, yield and melting loss, casting defects and rejection and re-melt.

Melt and heat records live in logbooks, separate from the castings they produced. Yield and melting loss are calculated after the fact, so costing relies on stale standards. Casting defects and rejections are recorded without a link to heat, pattern or process. Patterns, core boxes and dies are tracked informally. Outsourced heat treatment and machining are hard to follow.

Does not treat a heat as a record with its charge, chemistry and resulting castings. Cannot roll up charge cost and melt loss into casting cost. Lacks pattern, core box and die records with usage and maintenance. Records scrap without defect, heat or process context.

Navigator is customized to how foundries and casting manufacturers work, on a manufacturing-first core — engineering, PPC and MRP, purchasing, production, quality, maintenance and finance — shaped by customized ERP work across varied manufacturing segments since 1997. Our no-code development tool, launched in 2020, greatly speeds up that customization, so the system follows your process instead of forcing you into a generic template. Key benefits: Rejection and rework visibility — Process-wise production and scrap entries, WIP rework and rejection, and rejection analysis in Navigator - ERP. Quality on every batch — Inspection, NCRs with disposition (use as-is, rework or scrap) and corrective action with root cause in Navigator - QMS. Patterns and dies as tools — Navigator - ToolRoom tracks tooling through movement, usage against expected life, maintenance and repairs. A proven track record — Navigator delivered a solution for the investment casting process in 2004, with traceability of customer orders on the shop floor.

Products to look at first are Navigator - ERP, Navigator - PPC, Navigator - QMS and Navigator - ToolRoom. Navigator delivered a solution for the investment casting process in 2004, with shop-floor traceability of customer orders.