This award honors individuals committed to
continuing education in the field of die casting, both for themselves and their
students. Individuals winning this award feature qualities such as flexibility,
high understanding of a topic and ability to teach it, favorable comments from
evaluations requested and unsolicited reviews from students at chapter courses,
national courses and in-plant courses.
Henry Bakemeyer has over 37 years experience
working both custom and captive die casting environments and has a wide range of
field experience from die cast machine operator to part-owner of a start-up die
casting operation. Assignments have included design of casting and secondary
tooling; solving tooling and process related problems; from product start-ups to
plant start-ups. He has designed and supervised the construction of hundreds of
aluminum and zinc molds in his career. Henry has organized and conducted
in-plant training programs from print-reading to statistical process control,
and die casting technology. Add to this his extensive experience in computer
analysis of die cast die metal and heat flow.
Henry is an Electrical Engineering graduate of
the University of Wisconsin, and has NADCA certification as a Die Casting
Technician, Process Engineer and Tooling Engineer. He has served as a NADCA
instructor for 13 years in a range of education courses including, Designing
Casting Dies, Product Design, Die Materials Metallurgy, Gating, Heat Flow,
Dimensional Repeatability and SMED.
He is author of the NADCA Operator Training
Program and has served as a member of the NADCA Industry Product Standards,
Safety and Education committees. He is currently Chairman of NADCA-Wisconsin
Chapter 12.
Die Casting Design & Consulting [DC]2
is a bureau specializing in services to users (OEMs), die casting manufacturers,
and die casting support industries, embracing all aspects of die casting part
design, from initial feasibility through product design, die design,
prototyping, production and secondary operations.
