TY - JOUR N2 - With increasing technology development, an increasing emphasis is placed on the precision of products, but cannot be guaranteed without a stable production process. To ensure the stability of the production process, it is necessary to monitor it in detail, find its critical locations and eliminate or at least control it. With such a precise manufacturing method as investment casting, such a process is a must. This paper therefore deals with monitoring the production process of wax models of large turbine blades using infrared thermography. The aim was to evaluate the critical locations of this production and to propose recommendations for their elimination or, at the very least, significant mitigation of their impact on the final quality of the large turbine blade casting. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/107837/PDF/AFE%204_2018_02.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/107837 PY - 2018 IS - No 4 EP - 14 KW - Castings defects KW - product development KW - Investment casting KW - Wax patterns KW - Turbine blades KW - Thermography KW - deformation A1 - Herman, A. A1 - Vrátný, O. A1 - Kubelková, I. PB - The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol.18 DA - 2018.10.22 T1 - Monitoring of Manufacture Stability of Large Turbine Blades Using Infrared Thermography (IRT) in Investment Casting Technology SP - 9 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/107837 T2 - Archives of Foundry Engineering ER -