Industrial Heating is fortunate enough to have several experts in their respective fields contribute editorial pieces on a regular basis. These experts – David Pye, Debbie Aliya, Dan Kay and Reed Miller – all have a vast amount of experience in the thermal-processing industry. As such, their blogs and columns provide helpful and timely information about heat treatment to our readership.

For over 30 years, Heat Treat Furnaces has been designing, fabricating and installing custom industrial heat-treat furnaces for our clients. HTF’s experienced engineers and support staff are focused on your project.

Developing the next generation of manufacturing workers is essential to the success of U.S. manufacturing and the economy.

My current busyness caused me to even lose sight of putting this editorial together. Hard to believe, right? This editorial is just the tip of the iceberg for me each month.

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.

Registration is now open for IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating Online Learning Course, which begins Oct. 7. Students will learn the basics of heat transfer, fuels and combustion, energy use, furnace design, refractories, automatic control and atmospheres as applied to industrial process heating. 

For those of us running industrial or manufacturing companies, the need for qualified workers might be greater than ever.

The Metal Treating Institute (MTI) is pleased to announce it has launched nine new technical courses, along with its Heat Treat P.E.A.K. Performance Certificate program. The P.E.A.K. program is an online apprenticeship-style program that will take four to six months (approximately 80 hours) to complete.

An engineer is combining his expertise and passion into a national 3D-printing training program for industry and government.