Thermal IQ Optimize provides users with real-time analytics and fault modeling with early event detection at plant, equipment and process level to keep thermal-processing equipment running safely, efficiently and effectively.

In doesn’t matter if it’s managerial or technical, with the next decade’s shortage of labor and fast-paced change, quality training is going to be an absolute must if you want to maximize your productivity and people.

Why is aluminum’s story only about a century old? Because although aluminum is the most abundant metallic element in the earth’s crust (8%), metallic aluminum was produced for the first time just 200 years ago.

Penna Flame Industries owes its existence to the steel industry … and the vision of a foundry sales rep.

Bodycote entered into an agreement to acquire Ellison Surface Technologies to create one of the world’s largest providers of thermal-spray and engineered-coating surface technology services to the aerospace industry. Ellison, which is headquartered in Mason, Ohio, will be integrated into Bodycote’s surface technology and aerospace business. The synergies between the companies will enhance the combined organization’s ability to deliver solutions that address aerospace customers’ heat-treatment and specialist thermal-processing requirements.

In most thermal process systems, information is trapped at the equipment level. Which doesn’t do you any good unless you’re standing in front of it.

Founded in 1978 by William Pociask, P&L Heat Treating and Grinding began operations in a 2,500-square-foot building with only two employees, two austenitizing furnaces, two tempering furnaces and a rotary surface grinder.

Bodycote recently held an official opening ceremony at its new heat-treatment facility in Prague, Czech Republic. The plant, now fully operational and supporting customer requirements, provides a range of heat-treatment services and will support the automotive and general industrial markets in the region.

Many in the thermal-processing industry can recite dew-point conversion tables with closed eyes.

Refractory material is designed to be very durable, withstand extreme service conditions and defy mechanical abuse in many different types of thermal-processing operations.