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By implementing and optimizing energy management systems, industrial users can increase transparency and save energy, laying the foundation for more sustainable and efficient operations.

This is a very important topic that needs to be addressed. Design engineers and brazing-shop managers need to become “agents of change” to bring about a needed adjustment of thinking in industry about the need for external fillets in brazing.

IHEA has several educational opportunities available throughout the summer into the fall, including a webinar series, online course and two seminars. IHEA’s new webinar series will focus on carbon-producing heating processes and provide methods to optimize their efficiency and reduce their carbon-emission intensity. IHEA’s fall seminars will be held on October 31 and November 1 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Confidence about manufacturing in China has plummeted to a new low. Almost twice as many U.S. companies cut their investment in China in 2022 (19%) versus 2021 (10%). “Confidence has been shaken,” according to the 2022 China Business Report conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (AmCham Shanghai) and PwC.

As we cross the halfway mark of 2023, a midpoint review of the current U.S. Congress and the state of Washington, D.C. is warranted. As of this writing, lawmakers have sent five bills to the White House that President Biden signed into law; federal regulators issued 1,336 final rules and proposed another 948 regulations; and the White House reached an agreement with House Republicans on a bill to suspend the debt ceiling.

Until recently, the conventional furnace controller has been an independent entity responsible on its own for performance, optimization and adaption to process and production conditions.

There are two basic answers that can always, or almost always, apply to anything that “failed.” These two basic answers are almost always true.

When designing fuel trains for an industrial furnace or oven, one of the key parameters you should strive to maximize is flow.

The topic of energy efficiency and emerging technologies is not new to Washington, D.C., where some federal government programs date to the 1970s. 

Super Systems Inc. (SSi) was established in July 1995 by Bill Thompson, father of current CEO Steve Thompson, and the company has been proudly serving the thermal-processing industry since then.