Every year production volume of castings grows, especially grows production volume of non-ferrousmetals, thanks to aluminium. As a result, requirements to castings quality also increase. Foundry men from allover the world put all their efforts to manage the problem of casting defects. The authors suggest using cognitiveapproach to modeling and simulation. Cognitive approach gives us a unique opportunity to bind all the discoveredfactors into a single cognitive model and work with them jointly and simultaneously. The method of cognitivemodeling (simulation) should provide the foundry industry experts a comprehensive instrument that will help themto solve complex problems such as: predicting a probability of the defects’ occurrence; visualizing the process ofthe defects’ forming (by using a cognitive map); investigating and analyzing direct or indirect “cause-and-effect”relations. The cognitive models mentioned comprise a diverse network of factors and their relations, whichtogether thoroughly describe all the details of the foundry process and their influence on the appearance ofcastings’ defects and other aspects. Moreover, the article contains an example of a simple die casting model andresults of simulation. Implementation of the proposed method will help foundry men reveal the mechanism andthe main reasons of casting defects formation.
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