American Testing Services was established on the belief that quality, customer service, and delivery are the foundation of the company. ATS is a small testing facility located in Dayton, Ohio that offers buyCASTINGS' customers more personal attention and a great amount of focus on their needs.

Magnetic Particle Inspection

ATS provides testing services to the aerospace, amusement park, automotive, commercial fabricating, foundry, manufacturing, and military industries. They offer in-house and field NDT inspection services along with operator training/ certification, consulting, and Level III services. ATS offers Magnetic Particle Inspection, Liquid Penetrant Inspection, Ultrasonic Inspection, Eddy Current Inspection, Resonance Testing, Visual Inspection, and Radiographic Inspection in the laboratory or in the field.

In a continuing effort to offer new services to their customers, ATS has expanded recently into Visible and Fluorescent Penetrant, Magnetic Particle Testing and Ultrasonic Testing Supplies. Mr. Chris Small, ATS President stated: "We now offer Metallographic Examination in house. Ely Chemical has chosen us as a distributor of their full product line. We have put into production a Deca coil machine. This machine is an automated magnetic particle inspection unit that allows us to inspect parts with a quicker turn around time for less cost to the customer. Finally our most recent addition is a Portable Ultrasonic Phased Array unit. This exciting technology is viable for a wide range of applications because of setup flexibility, multiple test angles, wave modes, and its limited access testing." Please feel free to visit their website AmericanTesting Services.com or contact ATS at (937) 298-9390 or e-mail at atsltd@aol.com.

ESI Group, leader in simulation based design solutions, is now offering a complete suite of virtual prototyping and manufacturing software and services to all buyCASTINGS members. For example, ProCAST, Casting Simulation software can validate your mold design, reducing tooling development time and potentially enabling substantial cost savings.

ProCAST delivers capability for all alloys by providing fully coupled fluid-flow, thermal, solidification, stress, and microstructures modules with state of the art micro and gas porosity models.

Based on powerful Finite Element solvers and advanced specific options developed with leading research institutes and industries, ProCAST provides an efficient and accurate solution to meet the casting industry needs. Compared to a traditional trial-and-error approach, ProCAST is the key solution to reduce manufacturing costs, shorten lead times for mold developments and improve the casting process quality. ProCAST provides a complete software solution allowing for predictive evaluations of the entire casting process including mold filling, solidification, microstructure and thermo-mechanical simulations. It enables to rapidly visualize the effects of mold design and allows for correct decision making at an early stage of the manufacturing process.

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ProCAST covers a wide range of casting processes and alloy systems including:

• Low and high pressure die casting,
• Sand casting, gravity die casting and tilt pouring,
• Investment casting, shell casting,
• Lost foam and centrifugal casting.