Dr. Ragu Athinarayanan

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Purdue University is developing a Smart Foundry, an industry grade green sand gravity casting foundry with capabilities for real time monitoring, control, with full operational traceability of all processes from melt to finished casting. With a broad spectrum of integrated digital technologies including a scalable cloud-based AI, analytics, and advanced MES solutions, the Smart Foundry continuously monitors and improves performance using digital sensor technologies, real-time intelligence, and scalable analytics to generate quality and consistency of the castings via predictive outcomes. An AI/ML powered Digital Twin (DT) models capable of capturing insights and facilitate the intelligent control of the foundry operations and processes is being developed to be integrated with the Manufacturing USA Institute’s Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform (SMIP) and Microsoft Azure Cloud. This Smart Foundry was designed with a cadre of capabilities to serve academic, industrial training, and research functions at Purdue.

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Foundry Leadership Summit

14 September 2026 Park City, United States “Purdue University's Industry 4.0 Smart Foundry Testbed: Concept to Development”

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