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PROCESS CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION

Exploring Ferritic Nitrocarburizing and Different Post-Oxidation Treatments

Jim Oakes Chuck Thomas
October 9, 2018
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Ferritic-nitrocarburizing (FNC) processing is becoming a more common alternative to coating processes that require improved mechanical properties and resistance to corrosion, often on plain-carbon and low-alloy steels.


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Automated Control of Heat-Treating Processes: Technology, Data Acquisition, Maintenance and Productivity Gains

Jim Oakes Jeremy R. Merritt
August 5, 2014
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Heat-treating processes are unmistakably diverse. Furnaces are built and tuned for carburizing, carbonitriding, ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC), annealing, tempering, nitriding and vacuum heat treating (among other processes). 


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Implementing Process Controls and Automation in Heat Treating

Jim Oakes
May 2, 2011
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Does it take significant capital to automate a process? In the world of heat treating, it doesn’t have to.
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Energy Conservation Benefits With Process Control

Jim Oakes
August 4, 2008
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Energy conservation is the exercise of optimizing the quantity of energy used. In today’s economic environment, with strict regulations and competition for resources, industrial users of energy are challenged with trying to minimize their energy footprint.
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Process Control/Instrumentation: Furnace Temperature Surveys and AMS 2750 D

Jim Oakes
December 1, 2006
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Long referenced in military heat-treat specifications for pyrometry, AMS 2750 is now being used by NADCAP to audit pyrometric practices for special processes in the aerospace industry. Recent specification changes better define the requirements. Our focus will be limited to temperature uniformity surveys.
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