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December 2021
ARTICLES
Heat treatment of gears
Often the options of heat treat may feel pre-defined when looked at from a gear designer’s perspective. There are options, but both gear designers and some heat-treat manufacturers are constrained by limited exposure to the fundamental physics that drive the process performed by the equipment available. The heat treat industry is old and rich with […]
An interpretable machine learning based approach for process to areal surface metrology informatics
Surface metrology parameters represent an important class of design variables, which can be controlled because they represent the DNA or fingerprint of the whole manufacturing chain as well as form important predictors of the manufactured component’s function(s). Existing approaches of analyzing these parameters are applicable to only a small subset of the parameters and, as […]
Women in manufacturing: Diversifying the industry
You don’t have to go very far back in time to find a point where the role of women in the manufacturing sector was practically nonexistent. But over the last decade or so, the ratio of women to men has seen a dramatic increase, although those statistics still have much room for improvement. Diversity in […]
NEWS
Elvial S.A. purchases a second furnace from Nitrex
Elvial S.A., one of the largest aluminum extrusion companies in Greece, has purchased a second NX-815 E furnace from Nitrex Metal to meet the needs created by its plant. “This additional NX-815 E furnace, which was installed and began production in July 2021, will help increase the production of building materials by the company,” said Marcin […]
December 6, 2021
Demand for new vacuum furnaces continues at Ipsen
Business levels continued to increase for Ipsen in the second half of 2021, with vacuum furnace orders surpassing pre-pandemic levels. New equipment orders since the beginning of July included those from customers in ten states across the United States, as well as four other countries — India, Japan, Mexico, and Taiwan. Customers will be using […]
December 6, 2021
PEER Energy, Schwing Technologies are now development partners
German companies PEER Energy GmbH and Schwing Technologies GmbH recently signed a long-term cooperation agreement. The aim of the agreement is the further technical development and marketing of fluidized bed technology for the heat treatment of metal components. The partnership between the two companies focuses on combining innovative quenching processes with fluidized bed technology. It […]
December 6, 2021
Ceramics provider purchases L&L floor-standing, high-temperature box furnace
L&L Special Furnace Co., Inc. shipped a floor-standing, high-temperature silicon carbide furnace to a worldwide supplier of high-temperature piezo ceramics used in military, aerospace, and medical fields. The L&L model GLF836 has an effective work zone of 18” wide by 18” high by 36” deep. The furnace has a double pivot horizontal door. It is […]
December 6, 2021
Global tool manufacturer adds two additional tempering furnaces
Seco/Vacuum has received an order for two more Vector® vacuum tempering furnaces from an international cutting tool manufacturer. Two more Vector vacuum furnaces are headed to fill the production needs of a global tool manufacturer to augment the capacity of four prior furnaces of the same configuration. Just two months after ordering its fourth Vector, […]
December 6, 2021
