Atmosphere/Air Furnaces Technical Content
Ask the Heat Treat Doctor®: How Do Parts Fail?
The Heat Treat Doctor® has returned to offer sage advice to Heat Treat Today readers and to answer your questions about heat treating, ...
Tempering Steel Under a Nitrogen Atmosphere
For gun barrels, tempering is essential to bring steel to the necessary hardness. But what equipment is needed, and how is ...
All About the Quench and Keeping Cool: Thru-process Temp Monitoring and Gas Carburizing
The future of heat treating requires new manufacturing solutions like robotics that can work with modular design. Yet so also does ...
Keep Your Roller Hearth Rolling at Peak Production
Now that a new year is in full swing, it may be time to consider that all of the heat treating ...
5 Experts on Advantages and Applications of Roller Hearth Systems
Roller hearth furnaces are known as the work horses of the heat treating industry. Though they may be common, these furnaces ...
Thermal Loop Solutions, Part 1: A Path to Improved Performance and Compliance in Heat Treatment
How often do you think about the intelligent designs controlling the thermal loop system behind your heat treat operations? With ever-advancing ...
Exo Gas Composition Changes, Part 2: Cool Down and Use in Heat Treat Furnaces
In Part 1, the author underscored the importance of understanding the changes in gas composition through three steps of its production: ...
Heat Treat Radio #105: Lunch and Learn: Batch IQ Vs. Continuous Pusher, Part 2
Have you decided to purchase batch or continuous furnace system equipment? Today's episode is part 2 of the Heat Treat Radio ...
Continuing the Dialogue: Michael Mouilleseaux on Batch/Continuous Furnace Maintenance
Our readers and Heat Treat Radiolisteners will remember a recent episode entitled "Heat Treat Radio #102: Lunch & Learn, Batch IQ ...
Traveling through Heat Treat: Best Practices for Aero and Auto
Thinking about travel plans for the upcoming holiday season? You may know what means of transportation you will be using, but ...
Heat Treat Radio #102: Lunch & Learn, Batch IQ vs. Continuous Pusher, Part 1 – Heat Treat Today
Batch or continuous - which equipment is better for your operations? Today's Heat Treat Radio episode is a lunch & learn ...
Sustainability Insights: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Your Heat Treating Operations
Renewable fuels or hydrogen have entered the scene as these are fuels that contain little or no carbon. So, no carbon ...
Heat Treat Radio #97: Lunch & Learn, Ovens vs. Atmosphere Furnaces
Are you trying to figure out what heat treat equipment investments you need to make in-house and what is better being ...
On-Site Hydrogen Generation Essential for Riverhawk Company’s Heat Treat Operations
For heat treat operations, use of hydrogen comes with questions about price-point, safety, and storage or delivery. Read this case study ...
Tip-Ups: A Viable Solution To Customize Your Heat Treat Department
Heat Treat Today asked tip-up manufacturers to help heat treaters understand the variability of tip-up options in the market today. In ...
How Tip-Ups Forever Transformed Brake Rotor Manufacturing
Are your brake rotors heat treated? Travel back in time to discover how ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC) became the heat treatment of ...
Air & Atmosphere Heat Treat Tips Part 4: Carbon Control
Let's discover new tricks and old tips on how to best serve air and atmosphere furnace systems. In this series, Heat ...
Air & Atmosphere Heat Treat Tips Part 3: Data and Record Keeping
Let's discover new tricks and old tips on how to best serve air and atmosphere furnace systems. In this series, Heat ...
Air & Atmosphere Heat Treat Tips Part 2: Burners and Combustion
Let's discover new tricks and old tips on how to best serve air and atmosphere furnace systems. In this series, Heat ...
Air & Atmosphere Heat Treat Tips Part 1: Seals and Leaks
Let's discover new tricks and old tips on how to best serve air and atmosphere furnace systems. In this series, Heat ...
“The light at the end of the tunnel” — Monitoring Mesh Belt Furnaces
According to "Dr. O" - Dr. Steve Offley, product marketing manager at PhoenixTM - temperature control of the heat treatment application ...
Mesh Belts 101
Heat Treat Today surveyed mesh belt industry manufacturers asking for feedback on information heat treaters should know. In this article, Abelard ...
Mesh Belt Atmosphere Heat Treatment Systems: Meeting Demands for Performance, Quality, and Innovation
Mesh belt furnaces are the workhorse of the heat treating industry. With constant pressure to enhance performance and develop quality products, ...
Ovako’s Transformational Heat Treat Benefits with Electric Retrofit
For Ovako, a centuries old manufacturer of engineering steel, innovative approaches to producing their product has taken the form of electrifying ...
“Shaped” Wire Belt Withstands Rigors of Heat Treating
Engineered geometry increases strength, decreases stretch, and withstands thermal cycling. For today's Technical Tuesday, we are sharing an original content article ...
Mesh Belt Heat Treatment System Advancements for Automotive Fastener Production
Tim Donofrio Vice President of Sales CAN-ENG Furnaces International LimitedSource: Can-Eng Furnaces International Manufacturers of high volume, high strength precision automotive ...
Effective Integral Quench Furnace Maintenance
Considerable investment is made when purchasing a batch integral quench (BIQ) furnace. These popular furnaces need specific care and maintenance to ...
High-Temperature Bearing Failures- Engineering a Solution
Eric Ford, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Graphite Metallizing Corp. In this Technical Tuesday original article, read how an automotive manufacturing ...
Bill Disler on Carburizing Trends in the Automotive Heat Treating World
Bill Disler President & CEO AFC-Holcroft Automotive part designs and heat treating processes have undergone many changes over the years, especially ...
Furnace Gas Composition Controlled with CO and CO2
Source: AZO Sensors Many heat treat processes require protective or process gases. These gases often require careful monitoring. ...
Heat Treat Tips: Atmosphere Control
During the day-to-day operation of heat treat departments, many habits are formed and procedures followed that sometimes are done simply because ...
Effective Furnace Scheduling
By John Young, Young Metallurgical Consulting Effective furnace scheduling requires the inclusion of several key elements. “Customer” Demands: Manufacturers with in-house ...