In 1959, Bill Smith was an apprentice learning how to build the wooden patterns that foundries use to crank out everything from cast-iron cornbread skillets to the steel wheels on U.S. Tim Omarzu ...

Pattern matching (PM) was first introduced as the semiconductor industry began to shift from simple one-dimensional rule checks to the two-dimensional checks required by sub-resolution lithography.

This video demonstrates the pattern-free iron castings using Saguenay Foundry’s Nopatech. The company developed this new moulding technology to produce complex iron castings without pattern in just a ...