John Keough on Hoyt Memorial Lecture

When all inputs are included, energy is over half of the cost of manufactured goods. All metal components start as castings. Metalcasting is the lowest energy, most direct manufacturing line from metallic ores to metal products. The metalcasting industry is the largest recycling body on the planet. However, the metalcasting industry is slow to develop and deploy new products and methods. With Industry 4.0 upon us, we must “Innovate or Die.”
A pioneering metalcasting entrepreneur and dedicated mentor, Hoyt Lecturer John “Chip” Keough is chairman of LightSpeed Concepts Inc. and president of Keotech Inc. (Albion, Michigan), and former adjunct professor to University of Michigan’s Materials Science and Engineering Department. He received the 2005 AFS Award of Scientific Merit and the 2014 Foundry Educational Foundation E. J. Walsh Award. In 2018, he received the AFS Pangborn Gold Medal, the society’s highest honor. Presented annually since 1938, the Hoyt Lecture is one of the industry’s most prestigious addresses.