I fell in love with the industrial x-ray in 1978 as a final year university student. After completing my thesis in the field of industrial x-rays under the supervision of Dr. H. Heidt (BAM, Berlin) and Dr. Basler (Ahrensburg), I designed and built custom-made inspection systems in a private high tech x-ray company owned by Mrs. Samusch for over 5 years. Afterwards I sold similar systems at another company Philips for 3 years. In 1989 I founded a company Jacobsen X-Ray in Toronto with my brother Jim and remain CEO to this day. From 1998-2001 we worked together with Fraunhofer Institute from Germany on Automatic Defect Recognition “ADR” software and implemented that software in our MAXIwheel™ system. Continuing our work on our system platform called HyperComMachinery™ we accomplished truly modular system building consisting of totally independent operated self-contained modules. Our work and thinking is based on The Deming System of Profound Knowledge®. Thanks to Dr. Deming, we focused more and more on process improvement, i.e. avoiding defects in the foundries, rather than product inspection and sorting castings as good or bad, as is done by our competitors. We discovered that old casting technology using super heated slurry in a separate pot and further separate steps in the process will not allow great leaps in process improvement. From this we invented a new semi-solid metal injection molding machine called MAXImolding!™ (former MAXIcast!™). Lastly we combined all our experience from x-rays, HPDC, plastic and metal injection molding with AI machine learning etc., now ready to build a fully-automated, digital factory. If you are interested in cooperation, buying IP's (20+ patents) or licensing of MAXImolding!™ please contact - info@maxi-molding.com
After 40 years of experience and applied research, the die casting industry is ready for a fully automated digital 21st century casting factory, using fully automated data feedback from the x-ray machine. The unified and patented process control, together with semisolid casting machine and fully automated real-time inline x-ray inspection machine results in high integrity parts with minimal casting defects
The four semisolid metal casting processes thixomolding, thixocasting, rheocasting and stress induced melt activation, as well as the cold chamber die casting, hot chamber die casting and other processes such as vacuum die casting, did not fulfill end user expectations for quality, simplicity, energy savings, people safety, economy and environmental cleanliness. This is where we step in to develop a new semisolid casting machine.
The cold chamber die casting, hot chamber die casting and other processes such as vacuum die casting described in Part 2 cannot solve the safety and environmental problems in the die casting industry. Read about semi-solid metal forming in this section - a near-net shape variant with excellent part integrity.
The most common method of casting magnesium alloys is die casting. In the second part of the article series two types of die casting processes are described: Hot chamber die casting and cold chamber die casting. What is the difference between the two methods? Find the answers in this section.
Existing casting machines reach their limits in terms of quality. As a solution, a new vertical semi-solid machine will be presented, which enables a fully automatic digital foundry. The first part of the article series describes the development of the digital foundry and outlines the state of the magnesium die-casting industry.
The cold chamber die casting, hot chamber die casting and other processes such as vacuum die casting described in Part 2 cannot solve the safety and environmental problems in the die casting industry. Read about semi-solid metal forming in this section - a near-net shape variant with excellent part integrity.
The most common method of casting magnesium alloys is die casting. In the second part of the article series two types of die casting processes are described: Hot chamber die casting and cold chamber die casting. What is the difference between the two methods? Find the answers in this section.
The four semisolid metal casting processes thixomolding, thixocasting, rheocasting and stress induced melt activation, as well as the cold chamber die casting, hot chamber die casting and other processes such as vacuum die casting, did not fulfill end user expectations for quality, simplicity, energy savings, people safety, economy and environmental cleanliness. This is where we step in to develop a new semisolid casting machine.
Existing casting machines reach their limits in terms of quality. As a solution, a new vertical semi-solid machine will be presented, which enables a fully automatic digital foundry. The first part of the article series describes the development of the digital foundry and outlines the state of the magnesium die-casting industry.
After 40 years of experience and applied research, the die casting industry is ready for a fully automated digital 21st century casting factory, using fully automated data feedback from the x-ray machine. The unified and patented process control, together with semisolid casting machine and fully automated real-time inline x-ray inspection machine results in high integrity parts with minimal casting defects