Converting a steel weldment to a ductile iron casting saved the agriculture equipment manufacturer $7-$10 per part. Dwayne Hammond was a newbie at Besler Industries Inc., Cambridge, Neb. He had just logged two weeks as draftsman at the agriculture equipment company when his boss tasked him with fixing a problematic component for its farm field harrow machine. The fabrication was too costly, too dimension-ally inconsistent and took too much time to produce. Would a casting sow savings for Besler?
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