UKRAINSKA LIVARNA KOMPANIYA, LTD

Ukrainian Casting Company is the youngest enterprise of UPEC Industrial Group. Ukrainian Casting Company, a specialized complex to produce iron and steel castings, was founded on the basis of the foundry shop and pattern shop of Kharkov Machine-Tool Building Plant.

The production facilities of Ukrainian Casting Company, LLC comprise a specialized complex to produce iron and steel castings. A competitive feature of the company is the ability of producing castings of any complexity of between 500 grams and 20 MT of grey iron and between 500 grams and one ton of high-strength cast iron and steel owing to the existing sets of process equipment.

A unique feature of the casting complex is the personnel and productive potential of the enterprise which has managed to preserve multiyear traditions of machine-tool building.

During 2008-10, at ULC LLC like at all the enterprises of UPEC Industrial Group, a Combined System of the Automation of the Design and Process Preparation and Computer-Aided Support of Mechanical Engineering Production (CSA) was implemented.

The CSA Project has been implemented based on integrated CAD/CAM/PLM solutions and program products of Pro/ENGINEER-Windchill platform from PTC (the United States). Also, a unique process engineering and production tooling complex based on Windchill MPMLink system and VERTICAL system from ASCON (Russia) has started to operate.

As the basic advantages of CSA implementation, the following may be noted: increase in the accuracy and quality of products owing to operation in the unified environment — from a design 3D model through a manufacturing process; reduction in manufacturing process time; the improvement of effectiveness of preparing design and process documentation; a substantial reduction in the costs of design and process preparation of production as a whole.