Industrial Manufacturing Knowledge Base

Open industrial manufacturing knowledge base covering aluminum & magnesium die casting, CNC machining, injection molding, tooling, materials, automotive manufacturing and supplier selection.

Live site: https://knowledge.alumcasting.com/

This repository is a Hugo static site. It is built automatically with GitHub Actions and published to GitHub Pages on every push to main.

What is inside

Section	Content
die-casting/	Aluminum & magnesium HPDC: process control, porosity, gating, thermal management, DFM, cost
cnc-machining/	Milling, turning, 5-axis, speeds & feeds, tolerances, GD&T, surface finish, workholding
tooling/	Die casting dies & injection molds: design, tool steels, thermal fatigue, maintenance, tryout
automotive/	Lightweighting, IATF 16949, APQP/PPAP, EV enclosures, megacasting
materials/	Aluminum, magnesium & zinc alloys, heat treatment, surface treatment
supplier-selection/	Supplier evaluation, audits, RFQ packages, tooling ownership, inspection
reference/	10 engineering reference tables & guides (alloy comparison, tolerances, defect catalogue, checklists, automotive guides)
glossary/	Definitions of manufacturing terms used across the site
downloads/	Spreadsheet-ready and printable versions of every reference (CSV / Markdown)

In total the site ships 50 in-depth technical articles plus the reference, glossary and download libraries.

SEO & structured data

The site ships with search-engine–friendly essentials:

• Per-page meta description, canonical URL, Open Graph and Twitter cards
• sitemap.xml (all pages) and robots.txt (references the sitemap)
• RSS feed (index.xml) at the site and section level
• JSON-LD structured data: Organization, WebSite, BreadcrumbList, TechArticle (technical pages) and Article (glossary/downloads)

Build locally

# install Hugo (extended) >= 0.163
hugo server        # preview at http://localhost:1313/
hugo --minify      # production build into ./public

The production baseURL is set in hugo.toml and used at deploy time by the GitHub Actions workflow so the same source builds for the custom domain.

Repository layout

hugo.toml            site configuration (baseURL, menu, params)
layouts/             HTML templates (baseof, single, list, head, schema, ...)
static/              css, images, downloadable files, robots.txt
content/             all Markdown articles and reference pages
.github/workflows/   hugo-pages.yml — build + deploy to GitHub Pages

License

Content is licensed under CC BY 4.0. See LICENSE. Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md and the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.