Controls Technical Content
Smarter Furnace Systems: Engineering Energy for Sustainability from the Ground Up
There are many avenues for achieving new feats in sustainability. One foundational method of pursuing sustainability is efficient furnace design. In ...
El PF y el DPF: ¿importan?
As heat treating facilities strive for energy efficiency and reliability, investing in power improvements can move a company toward sustainable operations. ...
Why PF and DPF Matter
As heat treating facilities strive for energy efficiency and reliability, investing in power improvements can move a company toward sustainable operations. ...
Claim the Power with SCRs and VSC
Processes that utilize electric-powered industrial heaters instead of fossil fuels will necessitate improved power consumption management. Therefore, advanced technologies in power ...
Digitalization Propels Heat Treating to Industry of the Future
If you work in a standards-driven industry, you may already feel the imperative of digitalization. In today's Technical Tuesday, Mike Loepke, ...
Understanding Inductance in a Furnace Heating System
In this installment of the Controls Corner, we are addressing inductance in a furnace heating system, and the critical role it ...
IIoT Connectivity — The Future of Technology Is Here Today
Maintaining clear communication for high precision processing, critical with medical component heat treating, requires sophisticated operations. In today's Technical Tuesday, Mike ...
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 ...
Controls News
Loy Instrument Partners To Expand Capabilities
Loy Instrument, Inc., which supplies process control and combustion solutions for heat treaters in multiple industries, has been acquired by Relevant Industrial, ...
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 ...
