Abstract:

The combination of the equipment and technologies employed in a casting process, namely the integration of a modern casting system, helps to improve the competitiveness of foundry enterprises. This paper analyzes the characteristics of modern casting system and divides the system into such 5 components, namely, the casting technology, the casting equipment, the assistant software, the management method, and the operating personnel ＆ information. Then, an integration framework model is presented and a five-layer structure of the model, which includes the user layer, the information software layer, layer, and the database layer, is described in detail the equipment layer, the network protocol ＆ operation system in terms of their respective tasks and component structures. It is indicated that the proposed framework expands the integration range of the casting system with strong extensibility and convenience, and that it guarantees the consistency, relativity and accuracy of the data in the casting process.

Key words: casting system, integration, framework, architecture, equipment