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Arena-flow, by CPFD, simulates the blowing/shooting and curing of sand cores and molds. Arena-flow is trusted by OEMs, foundries, equipment manufacturers, and core/pattern shops to complement metal flow and solidification software, resulting in optimized processes and cores that are right the first time!

Using Arena-flow our clients:

Understand and eliminate scrap
Minimize capital and operational costs
Capture and retain coremaking knowledge
Optimize cycle times and reduce consumables usage
Reduce energy requirements
Minimize blow pressure and extend tool life
Replace trial and error with virtual testing
Produce new tooling that’s right the first time

Arena-flow was designed from the ground up to capture discrete sand filling physics to accurately simulate core blowing/shooting and curing behavior which is difficult (or impossible) to predict using adaptations to metal flow and solidification software. It is best suited for high-complexity, high-volume cores made via the following processes:

Cold-box
Shell
Inorganic
Greensand
Other (hot-box, warm-box…)

Process Modeling: Sand Core Blowing*, a publication presenting Arena-flow’s early capabilities, won the 2003 AFS Howard F Taylor Award from the American Foundry Society in recognition of the paper having the greatest long-range technical significance in the field of cast metals technology. Over two decades later the impact of Arena-flow is still going strong!

* Authors: Ken Williams and Dale Snider from Arena-flow, Mike Walker and Sheila Palczewski from General Motors