Course detail

Machinery of Foundry Plants

FSI-PZSAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course makes students familiar with the basic technological equipment and machines used in foundries. A rational production of castings that would be environment friendly and would save power via automation and management of sources represents a closed circulation of materials with minimum waste material.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Libor Čamek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Manufacturing Technology (ÚST)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of foundry technologies and metallurgy.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Course-unit credit conditional on participation in seminars and proving appropriate knowledge.
Exam tests students´ knowledge of basic production nodes in a foundry plant.
Technical reports from excursions realised in course of semestr are requisted.

Aims

The objective is to familiarise students with the basic machinery equipment of foundries and its future development ensuring an optimum use of the machines. They willhave a grasp of the market and capital investment activities.
Students will be cognizant of the basic manufacturing systems in foundries, the machines used, the functions and parameters of individual pieces of equipment,their
automation and deployment. All this knowledge will be extended to cover the basic
handling of materials.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BEELEY, B., Foundry Technology, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001, 719 p. ISBN 9780750645676. (EN)
CAMPBELL, J., Castings, University of Birmingham, 2005, 337 p. ISBN 0-7506-4790-6. (EN)
FRUEHAN, R. et al., The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel, Pittsburgh 1998, p. 767, ISBN 0-930767-02-0. (EN)
Chrást,J. : Slévárenská zařízení , Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno, 2006 (CS)
SCHLEG, P. F., et. al. Technology of Metalcasting, AFS, Illinois, 2003, 351 p. ISBN 0-87433-257-5. (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-SLE-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Libor Čamek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Importance of foundry technology. Distribution of foundry operations. Work and environmental problems.
2. Construction of foundries. Requirements for the structure of the foundry, construction areas, required energy and transport routes.
3. Premises for preparation of raw materials and equipment for batch preparation.
4. Smelter equipment. Cupola furnaces. Basic components and equipment.
5. Smelter equipment. Electric arc furnaces, induction electric furnaces. Basic components and equipment of secondary metallurgy.
6. Smelter equipment. Non-ferrous metal smelters. Ladle metallurgy equipment.
7. Foundry equipment for casting.
8. Molding mixtures of new and reversible molding mixtures, regeneration.
9. Equipment for the production of cores.
10. Equipment of molding plants, machines for molding bentonite mixture in frames, automatic molding lines.
11. Equipment for ST technology, for the production of shell molds, V-process, to a burnable model, magnetic mold, frozen mold.
12. Casting into metal molds, gravity casting, centrifugal casting, pressure casting, low pressure casting.
13. Equipment for releasing castings and cleaning the surface of castings. Equipment for separating inlets and riser. Equipment for finishing of castings.
14. Automation in foundries.

Computer-assisted exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Libor Čamek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1-2. Meaning and construction of foundries.
3. Operational files for the preparation of raw materials.
4. Operating file of Fe alloy smelter, cupola furnace, arrangement, material flow.
5. Operating file of Fe alloy smelter, electric arc furnaces and induction furnaces, arrangement, material flow.
6. Operating file of smelter not Fe alloys, arrangement, material flow.
7. Operating file of molding compound treatment plant, regeneration.
8. Operational file of core production.
9. Operating file of the molding plant.
10. Special methods of castings production.
11. Operational file of gravity casting, centrifugal casting and pressure casting.
12. Operating file of equipment for releasing castings and cleaning the surface of castings.
13. Operating file of the foundry's robotic workplace.