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Editorials from monthly and semi-monthly Industrial Heating contributors, both individuals and associations, and a new quarterly column, Heat Treat 5.0.

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Academic Pulse

A quarterly column featuring pertinent metallurgical or materials-testing articles from professors at Carnegie Mellon University.

Combustion Concepts

Educational engineering software developer Art Morris examines a number of combustion topics in this archived monthly column series.

Editorial

Associate Publisher/Editor Reed Miller’s monthly column.

Everyday Metallurgy

Everyday Metallurgy is an archived column series that looks at thermal processing and metals in everyday life.

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Washington Correspondent Barry Ashby has written this column for Industrial Heating for 43 years.

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Monthly column written by one of the most influential men in the industry, Dan Herring.

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Read the archives of this semi-monthly column written by one of Industrial Heating's overseas correspondents.

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The mission of the nonprofit Reshoring Initiative is to grow U.S. and North American manufacturing by 40%.

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Washington Watch

Does the Government Have an Energy Policy?

Omar S. Nashashibi
June 13, 2022
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In a January 2022 survey of four metalworking manufacturing associations for which I lobby in Washington, D.C., 133 respondents said their company spends on average $247,526 annually on energy and expected a 10% increase. This came prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine leading to skyrocketing energy costs around the world.


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Buying American is Good Business … and Politically Unifying

Dean M. Peters, contributing editor
June 6, 2022
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Yesterday I bought a simple, gas-powered Craftsman lawnmower with a Briggs & Stratton engine. It wasn’t very fancy, it wasn’t self-propelled and it didn’t have a lot of “bells and whistles.” It did, however, happen to be exactly what I wanted – a basic workhorse lawnmower to cut grass at my daughter’s rental property.


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Workplace Safety in Heat Treatment

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David Pye
June 3, 2022
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Safety in the workplace regarding heat treatment connects each and every person who works in either a captive or a commercial shop. We all have an obligation to one another to minimize the risk of accidents and injuries (no matter how minimal or extensive that injury might be).


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Washington Watch

Government and the Auto Industry: Passengers Together

Omar S. Nashashibi
May 10, 2022
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During the debate over the Affordable Care Act more than a decade ago, a manufacturing client of mine testified before the U.S. Congress that he was tired of being in the healthcare industry and just wanted to make parts. 


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Technical Talk

Failure Analysts Need Facts!

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Debbie Aliya
May 6, 2022
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Since people generally come to failure analysts when they can’t figure things out for themselves, it’s important to have access to reliable facts, know how to recognize them and be able to explain to people why our facts are indeed of the reliable kind!


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Automotive Activity Aplenty

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Reed Miller
May 2, 2022
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There is a plethora of automotive news this month. Never before have I seen so much significant news coming out of the auto industry. We will do our best to parse it in this column and in the podcast.


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Washington Watch

Bipartisanship Through Apprenticeships

Omar S. Nashashibi
April 11, 2022
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There are few things in Washington, D.C. on which Democrats and Republicans can agree on these days. The issues on which both parties are even willing to work together are so few most of us can predict the outcome of a bill before it hits the floor for a vote. The one exception to this unfortunate rule is apprenticeships.


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Technical Talk

Eliminating 'Holds' From Your Brazing Cycle

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Dan Kay
April 8, 2022
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Too many companies still use built-in “holds” when heating up parts in their brazing furnaces. I recently asked the production manager at an aerospace company, “Why do your brazing personnel have those temperature holds in their furnace brazing cycles?”


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Reshoring Initiative

Training the American Manufacturing Workforce

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Harry Moser
April 7, 2022
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Developing the next generation of manufacturing workers is essential to the success of U.S. manufacturing and the economy.


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Editorial

Bringing it All Back Home

Dean M. Peters, contributing editor
April 1, 2022
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As an editor in business-to-business media, I have watched for more than 30 years as good-paying manufacturing jobs slowly disappeared from the United States toward foreign countries eager to build up their economic prospects through basic manufacturing and job creation.


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