Lightweighting casting innovations: Green Processes in Foundry 4.0 practice of Light-Weight Castings

July 03-04, 2025
AGH University of Krakow, Poland  |  CPP  |  WSK Rzeszów

Targeted audience: phd students, postdocs, researchers and experts from Network partners.

To REGISTER contact netcastpl40@agh.edu.pl – Limited number of places.

The European strategy toward reducing CO2 emissions is leading to a growing demand for lightweighting across industries, especially these days for the automotive industry and electric vehicles. To reach these goals, development and use of materials that have a higher strength-to-weight ratio, while staying cost-efficient in production, compared to the ones currently used is a necessity.

Through NetCastPL4.0 Networking Pillar idea-camps at foundries with the participation of students and researchers stimulate interactions between the various actors in the foundry supply chain. These sessions aim to identify and analyse new initiatives in the production of thin sections, new industrial, commercial and professional mode.

The first workshop in the series: Lightweighting casting innovations: Green Processes in Foundry 4.0 practice of Light-Weight Castings, brings people together at both company sites and at the AGH University of Krakow.

The companies hosting the first day of the workshop are part of the NetCastPL4.0 partner network:

Companies Consolidated Precision Products and Zakład Metalurgiczny „WSK Rzeszów” Ltd. , members of the NetCastPL4.0 network of excellence will engage in cross-fertilization with academics, students and industries.

July 03, 2025 Workshop at Company site / CPP, WSK Rzeszów

9:30-15.00

Company Visits

A) Superalloys at CPP (Jerzy Rozmund)

B) Cast Iron at WSK Rzeszów (Władysław Jasiczek and Marcin Łagowski)

C) Aluminium Alloys at at WSK Rzeszów (Władysław Jasiczek / Robert Jarosz)

Green production processes: CPP, WSK Rzeszów

Concept of lightweighting (Rafal Cygan)

Ferrous and non-ferrous castings (Robert Jarosz and Marcin Łagowski)

July 04, 2025 Science, Policy and Business / AGH University

09:00-10:30 – Thermo-mechanical fatigue (Riccardo Donnini, CNR-ICMATE)

10:45-11:45 – Creep properties of materials (Giuliano Angella, CNR-ICMATE)

12:00-13:00 – STEM Without Limits: Advancing Inclusion & Equality (Monica Favaro, CNR-ICMATE)

Break

14:30-15:15 – Policy and Economic developments (Franco Zanardi, Zanardi Fonderie S.p.A.)

Targeted audience: phd students, postdocs, researchers and experts from Network partners.