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AMERICAN CASTING CO. PROFILE

For over 35 years, American Casting Company has been delivering high quality investment castings to its customers with the industry's shortest lead times. With multiple production lines and numerous skilled casting professionals we offer customers considerable capacity. In addition, this capacity allows scheduling flexibility. Our foundry specifications exceed most economical casting production practices. American Casting Company takes particular pride in working with castings that require extra attention in the areas of porosity, surface finish and dimensional control.

Automotive Custom Medical Aerospace General Industrial Rapid Prototyping

Products

Automotive

Aerospace

General Industrial

Custom Medical

Rapid Prototyping

PRODUCTION SYSTEM

The American Casting Company Production System incorporates pull production methodology pioneered by Toyota and other Demand Flow companies. These methods emphasize the elimination of inventory waste, allowing us to offer the casting industry's shortest lead times while maintaining world-class pricing and continuously improving product quality.

Inventory

Inventory is allowed only at the end of the line in the form of finished goods for our customers. The non-value-added cost of holding work-in-process inventory is eliminated.

Quality

Detailed quality checks are made at every step of our extremely short process. These checks are recorded on visual instruction cards. Castings are inspected immediately and documented on the visual instruction card. Our short manufacturing cycle time allows us to make corrections to the process much more quickly. In this way, quality is improved continuously and with little or no work-in-process inventory to repair or replace.

Line Design

Our foundry uses fully linked pull production lines. Departments and queues are eliminated. All employees on a line are trained to perform any task the line requires, and equipment is situated to minimize the distance must travel while on the line. Total travel distance is less than 50 feet. The result is a standard process time of 2 days, as opposed to the 30-40 days for a typical foundry.