ENGINEERING SERVICE

Shellcast Inc. offers three decades of experience in investment castings as guidance in an engineering service to help design and develop investment castings. Deciding on the proper design before production is important from the standpoint of quality and cost.

Shellcast's quality control system begins here with pride and is in compliance with MIL-I-45208A, MIL-STD-1949, MIL-C-2175, MIL-I-6866.

TOOLING SERVICE

Shellcast Inc. has complete toolroom facilities for mold design and fabrication. This gives the ability to produce complex molds to close tolerances, and to expedite changes required by your engineering in the shortest possible time.

Our in-house tool and die facility enables the fastest print to casting turn-around time in the industry.

VALUE ENGINEERING

Value Engineering is a discipline which stresses a systematic, objective approach to design analysis to ensure that the resulting product satisfies required functions at the lowest total cost.

1. "Systematic objective approach to design analysis." Value Engineering does not presume to teach how to design; but it does establish orderly guides to design effort. "Design" refers primarily to the engineering design of a product (such as a casting).

2. "Resulting product satisfies required functions at the lowest total cost." It is obvious that the experienced designer considers known materials, processes, equipment, etc., to resolve the design problem. It is equally obvious that the required functions can be satisfied by several different products. The task, therefore, is to design a product which satisfies required functions at the lowest total cost.

3. "Required functions." As it applies here, Webster's defines function as "the natural, proper, or characteristic action of anything." For design purposes, the validity of a function is established by its need. The function is either required or not required.

4. "Lowest total cost." This term is probably the least understood of any connected with Value Engineering. Lowest total cost includes not only the immediate recurring and non-recurring costs of the product itself, but also its dollar trade-off of other parameters such as weight, maintainability, salability, schedules and availability, risk, etc.

5. There remains one key word to which we have not yet assigned a meaning, i. e., VALUE. We say the "Value is achieved when the required functions are satisfied at the lowest total cost." This concept ascribes to value a qualitative rather than a quantitative characteristic. A product that possesses value has merit. For the customer, it means that he is getting his money's worth.