<p>Signicast’s automation integrates advanced manufacturing processes and proprietary technologies to deliver unparalleled control, quality, and faster lead times. </p>

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Secure full traceability of your quote, project, and part with real-time progress updates and comprehensive monitoring of all project aspects, ensuring complete information integrity from quote to delivery while automating even the most variable tasks.

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Greater Control and Product Variability Reduction

Continuous flow manufacturing ensures smooth, delay-free processing to keep orders moving efficiently.

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Shorter Lead-Times

Signicast’s automation offers a flexible solution for adjusting scalability, enabling us to swiftly increase or decrease production without concerns about labor and staffing influxes. 

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Easily Scalable

Advanced automation not only improves efficiency but also enables more skilled and experienced employees to focus on highly technical roles. By automating more physically demanding tasks, we create opportunities for a diverse workforce, benefiting both our employees and customers.

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Our automated processes can significantly enhance efficiency and accuracy in investment casting. By incorporating robotics and advanced software, manufacturers can reduce human error, optimize material usage, and improve overall production times.

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Injects semi-solid wax and attaches wax patterns to the sprue using an automated process.

Automatic Wax Injection and Automatic Mold Assembly 

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Our proprietary shell drying process cuts down on project lead times.

Proprietary Accelerated Shell Drying Process

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Automatic alloy pouring contributes to higher quality, more consistent castings, while improving safety and productivity.

Automatic Pouring

Automated finishing operations streamline production, ensuring consistent part quality and reducing lead times for customers.

Automatic Finishing Operations

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<h1>Casting Reliability Reinforced at Lojac</h1><p>Adding a new offering to a business that's going to change the game for construction customers is great, but the last thing anyone wants is for its parts to crumble and repairs to soar.</p><p>Kodi Klip—designed to enhance the intricate task of connecting rebar with increased safety, speed, and strength—experienced two years of growing pains before&nbsp;<a href="https://www.signicast.com/en/about-us/why-signicast">Signicast stepped in to help.</a></p><h2>Casting Reliability Reinforced at Lojac</h2><p>Signicast played a pivotal role in assisting LoJac, Kodi Klip’s new majority owner, in transforming this innovative reinforcing solution into a rock-solid success. </p><p>For Tennessee brick-and-block construction manufacturer LoJac, leading the regional building industry with a 75% market share comes with the expectation of reliability.</p><p>When the company discovered inventor Jon Kodi’s “Kodi Klip,” named Most Innovative Product at a World of Concrete expo in 2015, they were wowed.</p><p>Here was a hand-held, air-gun-like tool that, when triggered, automatically fastens a clip to intersecting rods of rebar. This helped workers to avoid the back-breaking, slow, and injury-prone labor of manual wire-tying.</p><p>(<strong>Casting Reliability Reinforced at Lojac&nbsp;</strong>(alt. description))</p><p>“There's an immediate wow factor, and people totally get it. It's one of those innovations that can seriously change the construction world,” says LoJac Chief Operating Officer Kellie Mires.</p><p>The company partnered with Kodi in March of 2016. But the tools that had been produced in its early generations faced a big problem of failure in the field.</p><p>“As soon as it would hit the rebar the nozzle just fell apart,” says Aroll Jones, Customer Sales Director for Kodi Klip. “It would be sent back in crumbled pieces.”</p><p>By the time LoJac began managing the Kodi Klip business, the product was in its second generation, and LoJac saw firsthand how urgent the reliability issue was.</p><h3>A Solution-Driven Approach</h3><p>Kevin Blair, LoJac’s Equipment Director, says “The original nozzle was machined aluminum which was very brittle. We had to add a protector to it after assembly to keep it from being damaged on rebar.”</p><p>That brought the part count higher. And the repairs kept coming.</p><p>“We were repairing as many 50 or 60 per month, and more than 80% were because of broken nozzles. You would do a repair, send it back out, and a month and a half later it would come back with another broken nozzle. You can't do that. It's bad for business, bad for the customer, and bad all the way around.”</p><p>It became imperative for the company to solve the quality issues before mass-producing a product that would have LoJac’s brand attached to it.</p><h2>Converting to Investment Casting</h2><p>Signicast had learned about the nozzle failures from its inventor, so when LoJac took over management of the business, a solution had already been proposed.</p><p>To address the strength issue, Signicast designed a carbon steel solution— a material far stronger than aluminum. “But also, we made it one piece rather than two separate pieces,” Ellis says, which would give the nozzle more structural integrity in use. And finally, the new part would undergo&nbsp;<a href="https://www.signicast.com/en/about-investment-casting/investment-casting">investment casting instead of machining</a>, resulting in a stronger and more reliable piece.</p><p>However, the true test would unfold in the field—and within LoJac’s equipment shop.</p><h3>Casting a Product That Lasts</h3><p>“In six months, we’ve put 300 or so into the field, and we have yet to have a nozzle failure,” says Blair. “And as more of them get out and replace the older generation, the repairs just keep going down.”</p><p>Signicast’s solution also yields another benefit: with tooling developed, future production runs can be executed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.signicast.com/en/about-us/automation">with total project automation</a>, just-in-time quantities and schedules prescribed by LoJac.</p><p>“Going with Signicast has made such a big difference. We’re finally able to tell the market, ‘Yes, you can get it today. Yes, we know it will last,’” says Jones. “When the tool is done, when it hits the field, it's exactly what it needs to be and it's working the way it was designed.”</p>

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Discover how Signicast delivered consistent quality for Lojac’s high-demand components, improving uptime and reducing defect rates.

Reliable Casting for Lojac | Signicast Case Study

LoJac partnered with Signicast to improve the Kodi Klip's reliability, leading to a stronger product and increased customer satisfaction. 

Casting Reliability Reinforced at Lojac

<h1>Materials Mad Science</h1><p>With investment casting, the material selection is virtually limitless. Signicast pours everything from 400 series stainless steel, to aluminum, to cobalt, to Invar and more. In fact, Signicast pours pretty much any alloy 24/7, with very few exceptions. And with so many options, Signicast wants its customers to be informed about the advantages, properties, and capabilities of each family of alloys.</p><p>Sign up for the free on-demand webinar where Signicast Metallurgist and Process Engineers will discuss popular investment casting alloy options, heat treatments, and other surface processes.</p><p>The webinar covers:</p><ul><li>Plain carbon, low alloy, and stainless steels</li><li>Aluminum alloys and treatments</li><li>Exotic alloys like cobalt, Invar, and duplex</li><li>Alloy treatments and finishing options</li><li>Material functionality, physical properties, comparable alloys, and more!</li></ul><p>Fill out the form below to watch on-demand.</p>

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Learn about investment casting alloy options, heat treatments, and surface processes. 

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<h1>Saving cost on your component’s design</h1><p>Conversations with suppliers often start with the basics—the fit, form, and function of a new component. With many suppliers, the next step is to jump straight to quoting the component, with little time spent on optimizing the design for manufacturing. This mindset can stunt precision component projects before production even begins.</p><p>At Signicast, we believe in a value-added approach to manufacturing. This means helping to optimize component designs for greater value from the very beginning of a project. By partnering with our engineers in the early stages of part design and utilizing our “design for manufacturing” methodology, one can meet all form, fit, and function requirements while still hitting cost targets. And all it takes is a conversation.</p><p>In this webinar, Signicast's Vice President of Sales, Pete Lorenz, joins DDM founder and Chief Technology Officer, Suman Das, to discuss how this new technology can best serve customers.</p><p>In this webinar, our presenters cover:</p><ul><li>Saving cost by optimizing designs for the investment casting process</li><li>Adding value with complex features without adding cost</li><li>Design for manufacturing methodology</li><li>Part examples demonstrating both cost savings and value addition</li><li>Past case studies where we did just that!</li></ul><p>Fill out the form below to sign up for our free webinar.</p>

See how design for casting improves part performance and reduces cost by optimizing geometry, tolerances, and consolidation opportunities.

Fit, Form, Function with Casting | Signicast Webinar

Signicast's webinar emphasizes optimizing component designs for cost savings and value addition through their "design for manufacturing" approach. 

Saving Cost: Fit, Form, Function

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