Launched annually on the first Friday in October, and with events continuing throughout the month, Manufacturing (MFG) Day helps show the reality of modern manufacturing careers by encouraging thousands of companies and educational institutions around the nation to open their doors to students, parents, teachers and community leaders.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading Industrial Heating for three decades or three years, there is one thing you should know: July is our annual Buyers Guide issue.

In what is becoming an annual April tradition, we’ll take a look at some significant industry events.

Once again, Industrial Heating will focus on a specific topic on our website and list the articles that are most popular amongst our readers.

To continue a trend we started in 2017, Industrial Heating will highlight a topic on our website and list the most-popular articles under that topic according to page views.

How many hours per week do you work on average? How satisfied are you with certain elements of your job? What will be the biggest challenge for your company in the next 12 months?

2018 marks the 13th Furnaces North America (FNA) produced by the Metal Treating Institute and its media partner, Industrial Heating.

A lot has changed over the course of nearly three decades, both in the thermal-processing and publishing industries. Through it all, however, Industrial Heating’s annual Buyers Guide – despite some minor tweaks here and there – has remained the same.

When Industrial Heating (with assistance from BNP Media Market Research) conducts our annual “State of the Profession” survey, we ask qualified subscribers a variety of job-related questions.