Smelteon runs the loop that makes a casting sound: melt chemistry and furnace control, sand molding and coremaking, robotic pouring and mold fill, solidification and cooling, AI X-ray, CT and vision defect inspection, robotic fettling and takt balancing — with an as-cast digital twin that hits target soundness, yield and takt before the pour.
Deployed at the factory edge. Shadow mode first, bounded write-back only after metallurgist approval.
Built with foundries and die casters melting iron, steel, aluminium, magnesium and copper
[PLACEHOLDER] Design-partner names are illustrative until first references are signed.
Incumbents sell a furnace, or a molding line, or an auto-pour cell, or an X-ray box, or an MES. Smelteon runs the whole loop at the factory edge — each station's outcome trains the station before it. Scroll to draw the line.
Every station below is readable without motion; the drawing is presentation only.
Alloy chemistry, temperature, degassing and inoculation decide the metallurgy before a single mold is filled. Fixed recipes and spot spectrometry cannot hold the window across a shift, an alloy change and a scrap-charge variation.
Every agent perceives its station, plans against the twin, acts inside an approved process window, and hands its outcome to the next. Together they are a system of action, not another dashboard.
Holds furnace melting, alloy chemistry, temperature, degassing and inoculation or nodularization on target — heat after heat, not shift after shift.
Controls sand molding, coremaking, sand properties and mold quality so geometry and strength arrive right the first time.
Drives robotic pouring: ladle and stream, pour temperature, timing and mold fill — the most craft-bound, most dangerous step in the plant.
Controls solidification, cooling curves and shakeout timing, the window where shrinkage porosity and hot tears are decided.
Senses and predicts gas and shrinkage porosity, inclusions, cold shuts, misruns and hot tears from X-ray, CT and vision.
Optimizes yield, scrap, melt loss and line balancing across melt, mold and pour so the line runs to takt.
The loop that turns a foundry from craft-bound to controlled — and the reason every casting makes the next one better.
Melt, sand, mold, pour stream, thermal history and casting surfaces are read continuously at the cell — furnace spectrometry, sand lab, pour vision, thermal curves, X-ray, CT and dimensional scans.
Castwin simulates the pour and solidification for this alloy, geometry and mold state, then proposes melt chemistry, gating, pour and cooling setpoints that hit the soundness, yield and takt target.
Bounded write-back moves furnace, molding, pouring and robot setpoints inside a process window that a metallurgist approved — never outside it.
Poreon grades the casting against the prediction: porosity, inclusions, cold shuts, misruns, hot tears, dimensions and microstructure.
Every action, approval, override and outcome lands in an immutable, assurance-grade quality and safety audit log tied to the casting's genealogy.
Corrections from metallurgists and inspection outcomes train the models — the melter's, molder's and pourer's craft, encoded and compounding.
Real-time melt chemistry, sand quality, pour, solidification, defects, yield and casting genealogy across melt, mold and pour — in one place, with every agent action logged and reversible.
[PLACEHOLDER] Console figures are representative of a design-partner ductile iron line, not an audited result.
Each product lands standalone on the Cell tier and expands into the Factory platform. They share one factory-edge runtime, one metallurgy-and-defect data flywheel, and one foundry twin.
Melt & chemistry
Melt to exact chemistry and temperature, held autonomously heat after heat. Jetson Orin/Thor at the furnace, DGX for training. Feeds on-spec metal to Pourbot, validated by Castwin, correlated with Poreon defect outcomes.
Mold & core
Sand, molds and cores made to strength and geometry, batch after batch. Controls sand properties, compaction, core strength and mold quality; supplies sound molds and cores for Pourbot, validated by Castwin.
Pour & fill
Robotic pouring that fills every mold right — temperature, stream and timing autonomous. Jetson Thor with Isaac. Pours Meltra metal into Coreon molds along the Castwin plan, and is corrected by Poreon's defect root cause.
Defect & inspect
See every pore, inclusion and cold shut before the casting ships. X-ray, CT and vision fusion on Jetson and IGX. Grades every casting and feeds root cause back to every upstream agent.
As-cast twin
Hit target soundness, yield and takt before the metal ever pours. Omniverse and OVX. GPU-accelerated pouring and solidification simulation that hands optimized setpoints to Meltra, Coreon and Pourbot.
Finish & fettle
Robotic fettling, grinding and cut-off that finishes every casting to spec, hands-free. Jetson Thor with Isaac. Finishes poured castings, feeds Poreon, and returns gate and riser data to Castwin.
Foundry automation, melt and molding and die-casting systems, robotic pouring and fettling, casting inspection, foundry MES and factory software — growing on lightweighting, the EV megacasting boom, reshoring and a foundry-workforce crisis.
16B
TAM — foundry automation, inspection, MES and casting twins
11%
Annual growth in the addressable market
4B
SAM Smelteon can serve with product and GTM today
240M
SOM realistically obtainable within three years
Sizing from Smelteon's market analysis. SOM is the three-year obtainable share.
We could simulate a pour offline and we could X-ray the result. Nothing connected the two on the shift that mattered. Smelteon closes that gap at the cell.
Our pourers are the plant. Two of them retire next year. Encoding what they do is not a nice-to-have — it is continuity.
The audit log is what got IT and quality on side. Every agent action is attributable, bounded and reversible.
Design-partner voices are illustrative composites of foundry buyer conversations. [PLACEHOLDER — replace with named references after first case studies.]
Autonomy is earned one gate at a time. Nothing writes back to a furnace, a molding line, a pouring cell or a robot until golden-set performance, process-window checks, rollback paths and a metallurgist's approval log support the move.
RAG over melt and sand recipes, gating and solidification specs, casting standards and quality procedures — with citation checks, so every recommendation traces to a source.
An assurance-grade quality and safety log for every agent action, approval, override and rollback, tied to casting genealogy for IATF 16949 and AS9100 evidence.
Per-tenant isolation, strict alloy-recipe and geometry protection, federated learning that shares priors and never recipes, and optional fully on-prem deployment.
Start with one cell, one measurable wedge and a baselined scrap number. Land on the Cell tier at $15,000 per month, expand once the yield, scrap, porosity or melt-energy number moves.
Design partners start in shadow mode. Assist mode follows a baseline and ROI review. Bounded write-back follows a safety review.