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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Exhibitions are go!

A big hello to all our Blog readers out there!

It has been a busy few months for Synchro ERP with yet more new customers signing up and the Training team jetting all over the world to help train new system users!

We have also had 2 Exhibitions and i thought i would check in and share some pictures from them with you all.

First up we had ...

MMI 2014, BeijingAFS Texas
The MMI 2014 was held at its familiar venue at the Exhibition centre in Beijing.
This show organised by the Chinese Foundry Association is a well-known and trusted event in China and as such attracts many businesses from the Oceanic region if not the world.
It therefore provided the perfect Launchpad to the official start of the association between Synchro ERP and Sage Software (Shanghai) China and was the opportunity to meet and greet old as well as new potential customers.
We thank everyone for coming to see us and their loyal support and we look forward to seeing you all again soon.

Xie Xie Ni from Synchro ERP







Then it was off to Mexico with Daniel Alcantara for ...

Mexico Foundry Exhibition 2014

AFS Texas
This was our 1st time attending Mexico Foundry Congress the event took place @ Crowne Plaza, Queretaro on June 18th 2014. Although there were not a lot of attendees, some of the big companies were present, Bosch, Ciateq and Matrix Metals all attended and visited our booth.
Good presentations and nice people with nice stories about how to create points of control inside foundries. Really excited about some new customer coming from this show and looking forward for the next one.

Daniel Alcantara














Finally Simon Adlington and Bianca Catherall had a great Meeting in the UK at ..

FWUK 2014

Another great day at FWUK 2014

It was an early start for this year's Foundry Workshop UK, the annual one day table top event was held @ Derby's IPRO stadium, home of The Rams.
Cast Metal & Diecasting Times (organizers of the event) booked The Toyota suite for the exhibitors, papers were divided in two rooms the Pedigree and Avensis suite. This allowed the delegates to choose which paper they would attend and provided a steady flow of traffic through the main room. Ten papers were given in total. We arrived at 7.30am to setup and were served tea, coffee and biscuits, Steve Hill president of FESA (supporters of the event) opened with a welcome speech followed shortly after by Professor Peter Cooke's paper on" The evolving UK and European Automotive Industries "he took time to visit and chat with Synchro after giving his paper; he took some of our literature and a USB stick! By lunch time (which I might add was fabulous!) all of the attendees had arrived and the day began to buzz.
We had time to chat to some of our customers, Kia Siavashi from Finecast who had travelled from West Sussex! Craig Grant of Lucy Castings, Mike Stanley of Shakespeare Foundry and Patrick Herron of Darwins all took time to stop by to say hello, thanks guys, it was nice to see you! The stalwart exhibitors attended, Omega, Inductotherm, Asmet, Eurotek Systems just a few to name. It was lovely to meet up again with the guys at Foundry Trade Journal and Cast Metal Diecasting Times (Synchro ERP regularly advertise with) and finally to meet Colin Robinson who worked hard to make this event happen. On behalf of Synchro thank you Colin.
Lynn Postle, editor of Foundry Trade Journal of course attended and kindly posed for a picture. Laurie Palmer of Arun Technology and Former president of FESA also attended as an exhibitor and a speaker, it was good to see him again. Other new people we met were Richard Chandler and Richard Phillips of Novacast Ltd; spent a fair amount of time discussing with Simon Adlington – Global Implementation Manager for Synchro the benefits of an extensive all inclusive Foundry Specific System(photo above). The group from Mil- Ver Metal Company Ltd also visited our table top and had a long old discussion with Simon Adlington giving me another opportunity for a quick picture, thank you!
In my opinion this one day event will grow and grow; this is the 4th year, developing into an important date in the foundry calendar. Synchro ERP are proud to support and attend.
Thank you to all who make this happen – See you all next year.

Bianca Catherall








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Thursday, 3 July 2014

You Know You are a Metalcaster...


Howdy from Texas as the colonies prepare for the 4th of July festivities...

Right on time, the weather has turned blazingly hot and dry, typical for this time of year and is to be expected...

Anyway, I watched this short video the other night about a plane landing with the landing gear hosed up and how the pilot successfully landed without incident.


If you watch the video to the very end, you will know you are a true metalcaster when the video shows the front gear wheel assembly casting and appreciate all of the quality work that went into making it.  As per normal SOP, standard operating procedure, I'm willing to go out on a limb and bet that the casting had a unique serial number associated with it.  The Synchro ERP software solution provides metalcasters with full traceability through the unique identifier options of the system.

Well, until next time, be sure to have a safe 4th of July weekend, and I will see you on down the road.

Shane Allen
Head of Synchro ERP North American Operations...