Heat Treat Today publishes four print magazines a year, and included in each is a letter from the publisher, Doug Glenn. This letter first appeared in Heat Treat Today‘s Trade Show edition, October 2018.
Aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy sector manufacturers who do their own in-house heat treating are a diverse and interesting group. And while they vary, they also share quite a bit in common – they all use heat and they all would prefer to not make mistakes.
That’s why, in early June 2016, Heat Treat Today went public on the web and has grown to be a helpful resource for this diverse group. With this premiere print issue, we’re hoping to enhance that helpfulness.
“We believe people are happier and make better decisions when they are well informed.”
After serving as the publisher of Industrial Heating magazine for 20 years (1994-2013), my wife and I decided to start our own heat treating publication and help the people and industry we’d grown to love over two decades. Our website clearly states WHY we’re doing what we’re doing: “We believe people are happier and make better decisions when they are well informed.” That’s why we’re here. We like making people happy. We like helping.
As you read through this first issue of Heat Treat Today, if you think of something that we could do to be more helpful, especially if it is something that will inform you and make you more happy, please contact us.
To-date, here are some of the helpful tools we’ve already launched – and I will say right here and now to “stay tuned” because there are more ideas in the works.
- heattreattoday.com This is where it started. You can take a look if you haven’t done so already. Every weekday we post at least one new technical or news item on the site. We hope it’s helpful. Based on current feedback, it does.
- Heat Treat Today’s Daily e-Newsletter. At first, we called this our “almost daily” e-newsletter because we’d miss a day here and there. But it has struck a chord and now we’re publishing ONE every weekday and blasting it out to thousands of heat treat industry leaders. You can subscribe by going to heattreattoday.com/subscribe and you can see a list of past 100 e-newsletters by Googling “Heat Treat Today Last 100 e-Newsletters.”
- Heat Treat Radio. This is a fun one for me because I enjoy talking to people and learning about the products, processes, or technologies that they’re offering that might be of help to you. By the time this issue publishes in early October 2018, we’ll have roughly 15 episodes posted to the site. Check it out. Google “Heat Treat Radio” and click on the first NON-PAID result that comes up. Our goal is to do roughly 2 episodes every month. We’ll see! Let us know if you have a topic you’d like covered.
- Heat Treat Consultants. This is one of my favorites because, to my knowledge, it is not being done anywhere else in the industry. Imagine this (which should not be too difficult to do!) – You’ve run into a heat treat problem in the plant. It might be a process problem, a material problem, or an equipment problem. The guy who just retired has historically been the “go-to” guy for things like this. Now, who do you go to? If there is no one in-house to whom you can turn, what are you going to do. Googling “heat treat help” isn’t going to save you any time. Up to this moment in time, there has not been a single place where you could go to get a list of ALL heat treat consultants at-a-glance. Now there is. Google “Heat Treat Today Consultants” and enjoy.
- Heat Treat Shop. This is a monthly e-newsletter that has roughly 7 to 10 heat treat components, parts, services, or supplies that may or may not be of interest to you that month, but certainly will be of interest to you at some point in your heat treating journey. To subscribe, go to heattreattoday.com/subscribe.
This is where it starts. We have plenty of ideas on how we can help, but please let us know if you have something specific you’d like to see. Enjoy Heat Treat Today.
