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Proceedings Book, 15th International Foundrymen Conference: Innovation- The Foundation of Competitive Casting Production

Scientific organizations in Croatia possess good scientific and research potential and represent a solid basis for the development of a competitive innovation based economy. Croatian medium and large enterprises invest more than 90% of all private investment in research and development, of which large companies invest the largest share (over 60%), as opposed to micro and small enterprises (just under 8%). Due to the lack of public support for scientific and research activities and relatively low interest of companies, investments in the development of research and innovation in recent years has stagnated. Research and development activities, among other activities associated with the introduction of innovation in enterprises, are essential to the Croatian economy in order to become more competitive through companies’ productivity growth, access to new markets with higher value added, and finally bringing to sustainable employment in the context of a sharp global competition. Founding as important industry branch represents the important factor contributing the economic potential of each country. Current market development as well as technical and economic objective, the production of high-quality, low-cost and environmentally friendly casting, requires application of modern advanced materials and manufacturing technologies, as well as an understanding of the production process. Prerequisite to achieve competitiveness on global market is to introduce innovation and R&D attainments transfer from HEIs’ to SMEs’ and industry. The Conference topics were designed as presentations of the current "state of the art" research in the collaboration with industry, and production innovation with the aim to improve the competitiveness. The scope of the Conference covers scientific, technological and practical aspects concerning research, development and realization of casting technology with the common foundation -Innovation. Special attention will be focused towards the competitiveness ability of foundries, environmental protection as well as subjects connected to properties and application of castings. During this Conference 32 paper will be presented. Book of Abstract of the 15th International Foundrymen Conference includes summaries of the papers. The Proceedings book consists of papers in extenso published in electronic format (CD). Full length papers have undergone the international review procedure, done by eminent experts from corresponding fields, but have not undergone linguistic proof reading. Sequence of papers in Proceedings book has been done by category of papers in following order: plenary lectures, invited lectures, oral and poster presentation, and inside the category alphabetically by the first author’s surname. This occasion represents the opportunity to discus and increase the mutual collaboration between HEIs’ and industry with the aim of information exchange related to advanced experience in foundry processes and technologies, gaining the new experience in presentation and / or teaching process within lifelong learning process.

metalurgija ; ljevačke tehnologije ; inovacije

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