It was early summer of 1979 when I was in Abu Dhabi to give a presentation to the king, Sheikh Zayed. As was common practice, such meetings were held at “reception.”

Heat-treatment consultants specifically add value and/or reduce cost for their clients by focusing on their operational, service and market needs related to heat treatment and ancillary issues.

I tell people that I’ve been unemployed since 1968, which is just another way to describe a consultant. Many of the people who live and work around Washington call themselves “representatives” and “lobbyists,” but all 125,000 of them are lawyers except for the four of us who are engineers. 

As it has been for several years, Industrial Heating’s editorial focus in April is consulting and training. With an eye toward providing you with the most relevant information possible, we decided to “consult” our website analytics to see what is being viewed most often on www.industrialheating.com.