Sinto America and Purdue University have finalized plans for integrating a Smart Foundry for Purdue’s “Smart Manufacturing” curriculum.  The Smart Foundry classroom, comprising a fully functioning, production-capable, green sand foundry, will be located on the ground level of the new “Gateway” building in the heart Purdue’s campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. It will be a standalone metals processing laboratory fully integrated with the “Sinto Smart Foundry” solutions. 

Purdue’s $2.8-million investment in the foundry will change the landscape of foundry education by providing students with the practical experiences of a real greensand foundry, using Sinto Smart Foundry’s latest data collection and remote monitoring technology.  

A collaboration of the Purdue facility and staff, the Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF), and Sinto’s Foundry Design and Engineering department, the design of the new foundry allows students to make molds using a Sinto FDNX automatic molding machine. Supporting the molding operation will be a complete sand system loop, a melting department with three furnaces, as well as robotic pouring integrated with one of the furnace locations. Additionally, the facility will feature a manual mold handling line with a vibratory shaker deck.