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It turned out that the designed gating system with a system of feeders was not sufficient to eliminate the emerging defects. A new layout for the feeders was proposed, which ultimately eliminated the occurrence of defects based on the results of the computer simulation. The input parameters were set to be as close as possible to the actual needs of the foundry. 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