October AFS Chapter Meeting - Past Presidents' Night

513 West Pontaluna Road,Norton Shores MI 49444

12 October, 2021

Description

At this meeting Ray Monroe will discuss Current and Future Challenges for Foundries. Raymond Monroe has had a lot of fun, fooling around with steel castings for over forty years. For the first ten years he did technical stuff, research at Southern Research Institute and technical projects for Steel Founders’ Society. He “lost” foam making castings at Saturn Corporation. For the last 35 years he has retired into management. Now he is the Executive Vice President of the Steel Founders’ Society of America and spends his time going to meetings, visiting friends in the industry, talking on the phone and keeping up with gossip. Raymond W. Monroe joined the Steel Founders' Society of America SFSA as Executive Vice President in 1988. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University, an M.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Alabama (Birmingham), and a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic University. Raymond supports the U.S. Department of Defense as a panelist for the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel - Metals Sub-panel. This panel reviews the DoD MANTECH projects for advanced manufacturing. He is the instigator for the Steel Performance Initiative, a DoD program to invest in advanced specialty steel technology for U.S., domestic producers to meet strategic DoD requirements. Ray is always an insightful and entertaining speaker, you won't want to miss this presentation. Thanks to Carpenter Brothers for sponsoring this meeting! Our organization is not for profit.  We are part of the American Foundry Society, a national organization, and focus on making the foundry industry in western Michigan strong and prosperous.  Our main efforts are: 1.  Organize monthly meetings to bring foundries, vendors and related persons together to promote the exchange of knowledge and resources. 2.  Promote understanding of the foundry industry by going to local schools and colleges to present the benefits and challenges of the foundry industry in the local community and the national economy. 3.  Raise funds through the monthly meetings and our annual golf outing to distribute as scholarships and stipends to local students and as funds to support the industrial arts foundry and metallurgical programs at local high schools and colleges.