By saving time, effort and money, remote diagnostics had already begun to transform industry long before COVID-19. Social distancing and restrictions on travel have simply reinforced their importance and value. This article looks at what this means for the die-casting industry in particular and shares a vision of a digital future.

When large industrial vacuum brazing furnaces begin to produce customer parts that show discoloration instead of a pristine stainless steel finish or joints where the brazing material has refused to flow properly, production is quickly halted. Easy-to-find-and-fix leaks can take the furnace down for a half of a day, and more downtime is likely.

AVS designed and manufactured a 2,400-ton vacuum hot press that will be the largest of its kind in the U.S.

IKR gauges cover the pressure range between 1 x 10^-2 and 1 x 10^-9 mbar.

All transducers of the Smartline product family are available with EtherCAT interface. 

This article describes the newest achievements in the heat treatment of diesel-engine fuel-injection nozzles made of hot-working tool steel. Different methods of improving surface properties have been applied by means of vacuum carburizing and vacuum nitriding, which is especially suitable for elements characterized by difficult shape geometry such as blind holes. Variable process parameters have been considered in terms of sequence and temperature as well as their influence on surface microstructure, hardness and case-layer uniformity.

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum won several vacuum-system orders globally from the metal-treatment industry.

Edwards Group Ltd., a manufacturer of vacuum products and abatement systems, will supply 35 new XDS dry scroll pumps to CERN.