The heat treatment of steel often involves heating a component part into the austenite region (aka austenite phase field) in order to perform a thermal treatment such as normalizing, hardening, case hardening, etc.

The following is excerpted from an interview with Mechanical Engineer Nate Sroka of Ipsen USA.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading Industrial Heating for three decades or three years, there is one thing you should know: July is our annual Buyers Guide issue.

The National Association of Manufacturers promotes many facts about our manufacturing sector.

I would like to say first, to our readers, advertisers, contributors and partners, THANK YOU! As the new group publisher for the Thermal Processing Group at BNP Media, I’m looking forward to continuing to build on our longstanding brands.

Summer is almost upon us, and change is in the air. At Industrial Heating, we have a new group publisher, Erik Klingerman. Erik succeeded Darrell Dal Pozzo, who has accepted another position with BNP Media.

It’s hard to believe it all started in a garage.

The heat treatment and performance of high-temperature superalloys, and Inconel® 718 in particular, has always been of interest to The Doctor.

This column has addressed issues of climate change four times in the past 11 years. Let’s do it again, but this time get to the factual heart of it.

Heat treatment plays an important and – most would agree – critical role in gear manufacturing.