The Caterpillar Smart Foundry, operated by the School of Engineering Technology, is an advanced Industry 4.0 foundry designed to expose a variety of engineering and non-engineering students to an industry comparable manufacturing environment. This green sand foundry provides real world best practice experience to students in multiple areas such as sand testing, molding, pattern making, ferrous and non-ferrous casting, manual and automated metal pouring, and data collection. This laboratory is a mixed use environment, enabling teaching, research, and volume production all in one facility.
Students will advance through this facility in all four years of their time at Purdue, gradually gaining experience and confidence with the equipment. As students move forward they will take on more operational responsibility with regards to design, operation, and process improvement. In their senior year students will take full control of this lab to perform a full product design, launch, testing, and validation as part of a senior capstone. automatic sand molding machine
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