Trace every steel casting back to its heat, its pattern and its test coupon.

A steel casting leaves the foundry with a heat number cast or stamped on it. Behind that number sit a charge of scrap and ferro-chrome, a spectrometer reading, a tapping temperature, a teapot ladle pour and a cycle in a shared furnace. When a buyer reports a crack, all of it is asked for at once.

Steel foundry software holds those records against the casting and the pattern. It follows the pour from the induction furnace through shakeout, arc-air gouging, weld repair, radiography and the heat treatment furnace, to a final certificate that quality staff can review line by line. Share your requirements to start.

The pattern shop and the moulding line receive an order for valve bodies, pump casings, crusher jaws or excavator bucket teeth. The planner books the wooden pattern, the core boxes and a slot on the melt schedule. Moulds are rammed in green sand or bonded with furan resin, cores are set, and the box is closed and weighted before tapping.

The melt shop charges scrap, returns and ferro-alloys into the furnace, takes a spoon sample for the optical emission spectrometer and corrects the chemistry before tapping. After shakeout, gates and risers are cut off and the casting is fettled. Weld repairs, normalising, ultrasonic checks and the keel block tensile result all end in one certificate.