American Foundry Society (AFS)
https://www.afsinc.orgLocations
Cleveland, OH
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Apr 20–22, 2027
About
Schaumburg, IL-headquartered trade association for the North American metalcasting industry. Produces the annual Metalcasting Congress and CastExpo (held every few years; next in 2028), plus an Additive Manufacturing Conference, covering casting processes, Foundry 4.0, automation, energy efficiency, and EHS.
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The program combines technical and management sessions, exhibits, and presentations for foundry professionals, suppliers, casting designers, buyers, and OEM representatives. Topics include additive manufacturing, casting design and purchasing, engineering, environmental health and safety, ferrous and nonferrous alloys, Industry 4.0, marketing and sales, melting, molding, pouring, quality control, workforce development, and casting case studies, reshoring, material selection, and casting quality. The program also includes the Hoyt Memorial Lecture on integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) and artificial intelligence for sustainable metalcasting. Its themes include alloy design, process innovation, digital manufacturing, workforce development, and using physics-based ICME with AI and machine learning to improve casting development, manufacturing processes, and prediction of microstructure, defects, and mechanical properties.