JJ Foundry Consulting hasn’t got a long history yet, as it’s only been established on Feb 8th 2023 by me, but on the flip side one can undoubtedly admit that we have already managed to gain a wide recognition in the foundry field over many years. The Department of Foundry Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology became the place where I took my first steps starting my MA degree back in 1996 where I had an opportunity to learn and gain my experience at the subject of Technology and Foundry Management. It was then, when the idea of setting up my own company in this particular field got its roots from and since that time it has crystalised even further – Ph.D studies and becoming a Doctor of Science, a tenure-track assistant professor, postdoctoral studies to finally become a University professor up to now.
Taking the initiative to pursue one’s dreams and make them happen is not always as easy as it looks for an ordinary person. Not only does one need to be determined and motivated but also what it takes to make that move is this external friendly voice of encouragement that pushes one to make a move. This is why, ever since the initial concept to the very beginning of the company I have been cooperating with young but nevertheless very experienced friends of mine Malwina and Rafał Dojka. They are also the alumni of the Department of Foundry Engineering and Doctors of Science. We are happy to share our achievements and experience in brief in order to convince you that in case you were looking for support you should look no further. You have reached the right place.
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Jan Jezierski – the owner and the main consultant
As you have already read above I am a professor at the Department of Foundry Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology. I have been dealing with a wide range of foundry technologies with a particular interest in the casting quality control. Over such a long time one can learn quite a lot, trust me.
I am an unpretentious person by nature, but I am proud to acknowledge that my experience and expertise in optimization of the casting processes including gating systems and the metallurgy quality enhancement of the cast alloys have been known and recognised in Poland as well as abroad.
Over these 25 years of my academic work I have engaged myself in various activities from clerical or tutorial ones giving lectures to my students to being involved in numerous industry enterprises. The latter one has always been my main passion which I have been cherishing until the present time. Being on a 15-month-internship abroad at Wyman Gordon Ltd in Great Britain meant a great deal to me as I gained practical and hands-on experience at an international company. It has turned out to be the real university of technical life. I threw myself in at the deep end as I took up a job as a Senior Metallurgist at the company that at that time made business with big brands such as Rolls-Royce, General Electric, Pratt&Whitney, Kawasaki and Siemens. While there, I really took to the issues concerning the production quality and quality processes management. I have completed a number of technical trainings dedicated to Lean Manufacturing, SPC Statistical Process Control, Theory of Constraints within the PCC University and many more. After I came back to Poland I felt like a full-bred engineer. Ever since then my cooperation with the industrial plants has accelerated. At first, I was one of the contractors to become the project manager or the main expert B+R while getting through various projects of B+R in conjunction with industrial partners within last 10 years. Projects were carried out among others with PGO S.A., Steelworks Małapanew, Kopex Machinery, RAFAMET Foundry Sp.z.o.o. I have been an active auditor of quality systems (certified by BSI Poland) thanks to which many of my activities I have been dealing with concern a wide range of quality management systems per se.
As a person involved in scientific as well as academic work I would also like to mention my achievements in the publishing field. All the works that I published were strictly connected with the scientific research carried out within the aforesaid projects. I am the author of over 150 research papers including monographs, particular sections in monographs and technical guides. I have been an assessing expert in procedures for the national and international research competitions for instance UE Horizon 2020. I am also an active member of numerous engineering assemblies and societies, one of which I am the member of Casting Processes Section under the Polish Standard Committee. I am the chairman of Technical Society Department of Polish Foundrymen Association STOP and a Central Board Member of the STOP.
I am also the editor of one of the world’s prestigious journals of cast-related matters called Archives of Foundry Engineering.
As a member of NADCA North American Die Casting Association (USA), TMS The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (USA), ICME Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (UK) and Croatian Metallurgical Society I stay in touch with people of different international cast-related backgrounds and I can make use of a vast source of knowledge which is spread worldwide by these institutions. I will be more than happy to share this knowledge with you once we enter a professional partnership.
As I have mentioned already, I am active and professionally recognised in a scientific community abroad and I am often requested to deliver Invited Lecture, Keynote Lecture or others. Last year, I was privileged to take part in a few of such conferences for instance : 74th WFO World Foundry Congress 2022 in Korea, 70th Indian Foundry Congress in India, 10th International Aluminium Symposium 2022 in Turkey.
I am not only a devoted and passionate lecturer at the university level, but I was also rewarded a medal for educational achievements and science popularisation in particular in 2022 by the National Education Committee. I was also one of the finalists of the 1st edition of the International FameLab Talking Science competition, and if you click a link below you will be able to watch my appearance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlW7O7hfLtw
I co-hosted numerous trainings in cooperation with the renowned training company EMT Systems for a few years (over 300 hours of training). We worked for e.g.: Teksid Iron Poland, Wabco, Rolls-Royce, Bombardier, Brembo, ABB, Schuele, Toyota, Ficomirrors, ARJO, PGO S.A., Huta Małapanew, Pronar, SEW Eurodrive, TRW, GZUT S.A., Delphi, Foseco, OdlewStal Łabędy, ZDWO Gliwice, Sinograf S.A., Kooperacja POLKO, Limatherm, just to name but a few. Perhaps we have already met during one of these training sessions ? Not yet? Perhaps then, it’s the high time to change it? Why don’t we give it a try!
Rafał Dojka, Ph.D. IWE – senior consultant
Ever since the beginning of my professional career in the field of Research and Development I have had an immense opportunity to put my ideas to the test. What is more, I have been acquiring more and more experience with every new project I got involved in. Owing to that, I have gained the ability to manage a team efficiently and my interpersonal skills allow me to communicate with the customers.
I am a creative person that thrives on new challenges. Thanks to my broad knowledge and unconventional approach I am able to introduce new implementations successfully and solve any problems that I stumble upon. Nowadays, I am responsible for the R&D department at the foundry Odlewnia RAFAMET Sp. z o.o.
While studying mechanics and mechanical engineering at the Silesian University of Technology I got interested in the ins and outs of casting. Besides casting technology I have always been into casting-related fields such as metallurgy and welding. Thanks to this I have accomplished a degree at the Instytut Spawalnictwa (Welding Institute) in Gliwice and become an International Welding Engineer IWE. In 2020 I defended my dissertation entitled ‘Investigation on the gating system: Reoxidation in the mould’ which I am happy to acknowledge got many prestigious awards including the award from the Prime Minister of Poland for the outstanding doctoral dissertation.
My work allows me to gain more and more experience in the field of R&D managing projects of certain types. Sometimes I deal with small projects related to the new offers for particular custom-made castings or the ones subsidized by NCBR which bring bigger, multi-million investments within a given company. On the one hand, planning on experiments, team work, cogitating over various matters, carrying out research, data analysis or constructing reports just to name but a few are the proverbial bread and butter. But, on the other hand, I am also an active member of the European Cast Iron Group (ECIG) and the Commission of Foundry Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences. What is more, I take part in numerous interesting trainings, workshops, seminars and subject-related fairs. I am constantly interested in latest cutting-edge technological news as well as what is on top of the world of industry in general. Finally, besides that, I am also a keen trainer having hosted a great number of training courses and technical-related consultations working for many different firms.
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