Controls Technical Content
Choosing Power Controls for Load Configurations
In this installment of the Controls Corner, we are addressing load configurations in a furnace. An industrial furnace is made up ...
Controlled Power Distribution Systems
Like most power systems, power control dates back to vacuum tube technology. Like radios, amplifiers, and other industrial equipment, the furnace ...
A New Era: Tracking Quality Digitally
What are advanced management systems and how does deep integrative system management software help automotive heat treaters improve processes while saving ...
Basic Definitions: Power Pathways in Vacuum Furnaces
Ever wish you had a map to follow when navigating your power source? In the following Technical Tuesday article, Brian Turner, ...
Thermal Loop Solutions, Part 2: A Path to a Sustainable Future in Heat Treatment
What is the path forward for thermal loop systems, and how is “sustainability” at the forefront of this technology? The following ...
Digital Technology Powers Green Heat Treat
"Communication is key." As heat treating equipment and processes evolve, it becomes critical that the accompanying control systems also develop to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Controls News
Automotive Component Manufacturer Bolsters Heat Treat Operations
An automotive component supplier has digitized its heat treatment operations with the implementation of a digitalization platform, an upgrade intended to ...
Heat Treater Overhauls Aging System To Upgrade Carburizing Processes
An Italian heat treater enhanced its operations with the installation of control cabinets, allowing for real-time data analysis and more efficient management ...
MIT-Backed Startup Tackles Heat Treaters’ High Electricity Bills
A group of graduates from MIT and Duke University identified manufacturing as an industry overburdened by rapidly growing energy costs and ...
FPM Heat Treating Expecting New Vacuum Furnace
FPM Heat Treating has placed an order for a vacuum furnace. The HFL-7472-2IQ vacuum furnace features a graphite insulated hot zone ...
Advancement in Automotive Industry with EV Contract
A component supplier in the automotive industry has secured a multimillion-dollar contract to receive a turnkey automated nitrocarburizing furnace system for ...
Nitriding Solution Accommodates Faster Heat Treat and Wider Parts
Full-service commercial heat treating solutions provider Akademi Metalurji incorporated a turnkey nitriding installation to save on process gases and production time, ...
Agreement Reached for Eurotherm To Join Watlow in Deal with Schneider Electric SE
Rob Gilmore CEO Watlow Electric Manufacturing Companybizjournals.com Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company, a North American manufacturer of thermal systems, will purchase Eurotherm, ...
IoT Technology Implemented for Enhanced Furnace Performance
Wisconsin Oven Corporation announced a new IoT (Internet of things) predictive maintenance technology available on their industrial ovens. The new system ...
Liberty Wire Johnstown Upgrades Controls for Continuous Furnace Lines
A Pennsylvania producer and provider of steel wire and rod products, Liberty Wire in Johnstown, PA, underwent an intensive nitrogen-methanol controls ...
Controls Upgrade for Heat Treater to Medical, Auto, Defense Industries
Two projects involving controls upgrades were recently completed at a Dayton, Ohio-based, heat treating company that serves the medical supplies industry, as ...
3D TUS Software Released to Heat Treat Market
Photography by Quang Nguyen Long-time heat treating expert, Peter Huskek of Phoenix Heat Treating, a fourth generation commercial heat treating institution, ...
Industry 4.0 + IIoT = Smart Industrial Ovens & Furnaces
Source: Eurotherm by Schneider Electric "Effective process control and automation technologies link thermal processing equipment such as ovens and furnaces ...
