Independent customer testing has found that Advance ladlers have a repeatable accuracy higher than our advertised 99+%.

Advance designs its ladlers for the highest repeatability, which means lower cost of operation. For example, compare a 60-second cycle operation for 5 days, 20 hours per day, using a 10-pound nominal pour. Then compare a competitor’s ladler of 10% pouring repeatability against Advance’s 1% repeatability guarantee.

Competitor’s ladler 10% repeatability for a 10-pound casting: 60 second shot X 20 hours X 5 days = 6,000 shots per week or 60,000 pounds of aluminum. The shot weight variation would be from 60,000 pounds to 66,000 pounds (10% maximum variation) or 6,000 pounds too much. Let’s say, however, the excess average is half of that or 3,000 pounds of aluminum per week.

Now, compare to Advance’s 1% repeatability: The average shot weight variance is 300 pounds per week.

The metal saving difference is 2,700 pounds per week.

At 50 weeks per year, that’s equal to 135,000 pounds of metal you’ve purchased, inventoried, and melted unnecessarily! And these figures are only for a 10-pound casting!

Cost to Your Company

One die caster has stated that “a biscuit 1” longer than needed (on a 2 1/2“ diameter sleeve) costs about $50,000 a year (per machine) in remelt costs.” You can’t afford not to have the most accurate ladler in the industry.

Achieving 99+% Pouring Accuracy in Ladlers

The 99+% is achieved because the ladle cup spill-off angle is controlled by the servo motor and servo drive. One revolution of the ladle cup is divided into almost 2 million parts (1,966,000 to be exact). This means that the cup spill-off angle can be controlled to 2 millionth of its rotation and it's this repeatability of the spill-off angle that achieves the ladlers' shot size repeatability.

Unlike other ladles, the ladler achieves the same repeatability regardless of metal level draw down.