Industrial Heating

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2019 November

Check out the November 2019 issue of Industrial Heating, featuring the Most-Viewed Vacuum/Surface Treating Articles, "Bringing Machine Learning to Nonmetallic Inclusions in Steelmaking", "The Overlooked Efficiency Opportunity: Intelligent Process Cooling", and much more.

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MELTING/FORMING/JOINING

Dosing Furnaces for Foundries

Equipment advances help to improve foundry operations as does using the best equipment.
StrikoWestofen
November 8, 2019
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Nine Westomat dosing furnaces from StrikoWestofen underpin die-casting operations at Lenaal’s industrial aluminum and zinc parts manufacturing facility in Radom, Poland. The plant installed its first furnace in 2007.


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HEAT TREATING

The Overlooked Efficiency Opportunity: Intelligent Process Cooling

In a business environment earmarked by intense competitive pressures, maintaining processing efficiencies can be the profitability difference. For heat-treating operations, improving efficiency and optimizing cost savings have long been an area of focus. But now there’s a viable, often- overlooked opportunity – Intelligent Process Cooling.
Gary Burgardt
November 12, 2019
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Serving as an alternative to traditional process-cooling methods, this technology improves operational costs and enhances equipment efficiencies.


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Bringing Machine Learning to Nonmetallic Inclusions in Steelmaking

Unavoidable by-products of the steelmaking process, nonmetallic inclusions in steel have been a focus of the industry for over a century.
Dr. Ellis Robinson
November 6, 2019
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research are bringing computer-vision and machine-learning techniques to the study of inclusions, hoping to increase the efficiency of inclusion analysis and gain new insights.


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Columns

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THE HEAT TREAT DOCTOR®

Vacuum Maintenance (part 1)

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Daniel H. Herring
November 13, 2019
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We live in the real world, and things break down or otherwise drift from factory settings. Patchwork repairs (that all too often become permanent) and temporary fixes are poor substitutes for properly planned and well-executed maintenance activities.


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