Diseño y desarrollo de un vehículo para el transporte de patrones de cera en "Alcoa Howmet Castings Exeter"

Abstract

Alcoa Howmet Exeter Casting, a subsidiary company of the American group Alcoa, is an investment-casting plant specialized in nickel and cobalt based super alloys. The process is also known as the lost-wax casting. AHEC is one of the leading producers of aerospace and Industrial Gas Turbine investment cast aerofoils. One of the first parts of the process consists in creating a final product replica made of wax. This replica will directly generate the shape of the cast part. As a result, this process is done in a specific workshop where temperature and humidity are controlled at any times. Included in the facilities plant engineering team, my work was based on the constant improvement and factory maintenance. The main stages of the study were to observe, detect and design the best way to improve. One of my first projects was to design a vehicle able to cope with the storage problem, improving the current ones but avoiding wasting them. I had to focus how to improve maintaining what we already have.