Most furnace operations teams have a lot on their plates and are pulled in many directions. You might not even realize how much your performance, efficiency, and product quality are impacted by the invisible atmosphere in your furnace.
Join experts from Air Products for a focused heat treat webinar. We’ll cover some of the most common gas-related issues you face, offering practical solutions and expert guidance to help you troubleshoot and optimize your process.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights from the leaders in gas technology.
Bryan Hernandez, a member of the Air Products’ Commercial Technology team, supports heat treat and other operations nationally from his base in Ohio. Bryan has over a decade of experience in heat treatment, materials selection, and failure analysis. His education in metallurgy and his advanced business degree give him a unique perspective on helping operators succeed.
Dr. Liang He Advanced Materials Processing R&D Engineer
Dr. Liang He, an engineer with Air Products’ Advanced Technology team, develops gas application technologies for the metals processing industry. His primary research includes simulation software development on predicting carburizing / carbonitriding processes, using cryogenic coolant for quenching, and Smart Technologies for furnace operations. Liang received his BS in mechanical engineering and PhD in materials science and engineering.
Hydrogen has gone from an unknown chemical feedstock business to a political, economic, and even diplomatic hot potato. With new hydrogen-producing and hydrogen-using technologies being developed and commercialized at an increasing rate, the eventual outcome might be a hydrogen business 1000x bigger than it is today. This Webinar will explore this future.
This webinar is for you if you are asking yourself: What the future hydrogen economy has to offer to thermal processing companies? Are major hydrogen supply/demand disruptions expected in the future? And, perhaps most importantly, How should your company prepare?
About the Speaker:
Dave Wolff has over 40 years of project engineering, industrial gas generation and application engineering, marketing, and sales experience. He has been a Sales and Marketing leader for hydrogen generation technologies since 1999. Dave holds a degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College. He has an extensive background in hydrogen generation at large and small scale, hydrogen distribution, storage, and industrial utilization, as well as application knowledge across a diverse range of industries.
In the wake of COVID-19, suppliers and manufacturers in the heat treat industry has found ways to educate and convene with one another using digital classes, seminars, conferences and more. This Heat Treat Learning article highlights some of the most prominent events which you can attend from your home or office. The list features events by date.
If you have attended or will be attending an online event, please consider emailing the editors at editor@heattreattoday.com or bethany@heattreattoday.com to share your impressions of the event value.
Classes and Webinars
Fractography and Fracture Analysis: History and Development: Tuesday July 28, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
(photo source: Wynn Pointaux from Pixabay.com)
This free webinar will explore the background of fractography and fracture analysis with Daniel Grice, P.E. Senior Engineer and Larry D. Hanke, P.E., FASM, Principal Engineer Materials Evaluation and Engineering Inc. The event, supported by ASM International, is intended to help anyone who is interested in learning more about material behavior. Read more and register here.
How Verification of Medical Device Surfaces in Production Eases Product Development: Wednesday July 29, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Operating in different time-zones and featuring a recording to any participant who signs up, this free webinar intends to help metallurgical technicians, engineers, quality control and laboratory managers better understand their surface coatings. The webinar, supported by Buehler, will mainly be focusing on preparation challenges and approaches to achieve good quality, efficient preparation, accurate measurement and correct evaluation of these coatings. Read more and register here.
Elizabeth Kidd, Materials Scientist and Lucas Dillingham, Senior Applications Specialist at BTG Labs
This event targets medical device manufacturers concerned with verification of cleaning, coating, sealing, printing, or bonding. BTG Labs is making this webinar available for free. The speakers are Elizabeth Kidd, Materials Scientist and Lucas Dillingham, Senior Applications Specialist at BTG Labs. Read more and register here.
Heat Treatment 4.0 e-SEMINAR: Wednesday September 9, 2020, 3:00 – 6:00 P.M CET
This international event, conducted in English, features 9 hours of content over a 3 hour period with three topical meeting rooms. Recordings of the event will be made available to all participants for a short time following the event. The site claims that this will be the “first industry virtual meeting of international specialists” including both practitioners and scientists. Additionally, the seminar will serve as a platform to interchange ideas and technologies, share expert experience, and discuss industry in the current times. Hosting this event is SECO/WARWICK. For specific details on the event, read more and here.
ASM Virtual Classrooms: Continual
These online courses listings provide self-guided classes provide professional development opportunities to any students of metallurgy. With quizzes and a final examination, these courses provide certificates of completion for passing (80% or above) the course requirements. A few attributes that one may see in classes are flash animations, video of instructors teaching the course in a classroom, video segments from ASM's DVD series, and PDF's of instructor PowerPoints used in the instructor led trainings. Among course offerings are the Basics of Heat Treat, Component Failure Analysis, and short courses on topics like corrosion. For more details on how to enroll, read more and register here.
Online Opportunities
Not all learning has to be done in a cohort, although community does provide great motivation and a sense of accomplishment. Here is a selection of alternative digital information outlets to access while you are on the go or at home.
Blogs:For the readers
(photosource: tav-vacuumfurnaces.org)
TAV: The Vacuum Furnaces Blog - "Perfect Vacuum Sintering Step by Step [3/4]." Part of a larger series, you can find more via the referenced articles internally linked in this article.
Dan Herring's articles. Check out most heat treat news sources and you are sure to find them.
Ipsen's The Herald. Also, be sure to check out their white papers on their website.
Podcasts:For the drivers
Heat Treat Radio: Re-envisioning your international business? Interested in harnessing the research power of Worchester Polytechnic Institute? Here is just one outlet while you are on your daily drive.
Videos:For the entertainers
Heat Treat Marketing Minute: For advertisers, learn a new skill, hone your marketing technique, use more color in your advertising... all here at Heat Treat Today. Check in with Doug in his commentary on ROI.
MetallurgyData with Neil Hardy: You may remember the young producer of metallurgical content, Neil Hardy. Links to his YouTube and some background on the project can be accessed here.
Tom Ott's LinkedIn videos: Scan LinkedIn and you will find Tom Ott's videos, which come in handy for the tech savvy heat treater.
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