December - 20196 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSA significant industrial technology, heat treatment is often ignored and, in many cases, continues to be poorly understood. In nearly every survey that has been carried out targeting heat treating issues, the crucial aspects of concern are distortion and quality control, energy costs, implementation of modeling and simulation technologies, and quenchant selection and use. Today, there are a number of high-level and visible national research thrusts in progress to provide support. In the last decade, heat treating technology has witnessed several advances. The introduction of new alloys, like duplex stainless steel, micro-alloyed steel, low-cobalt maraging steels, directionally solidified and single crystal superalloys, aluminium-lithium alloys, and various metal matrix composites have called for new heat treatments based on structure-property correlations. Alongside, there have been changes in the heat treatment processes, including improvements in continuous annealing, induction heating, and surface hardening operations using laser or electron beams, plasma-assisted case-hardening processes, and thermo-mechanical processing. However, the most dramatic advances have taken place in the area of newly developed tools for improving process characterization and process control. Notable amongst such developments are the improved instrumentation for controlling furnace atmosphere and temperature, surface carbon content, and the practical application of statistical process control (SPC). At the same time, advances in the application of computer modeling for prediction of hardness profiles, quantitative modeling of tempered on case hardened properties, and the computer-assisted object oriented selection of materials and their heat treatment processing have also tremendously transformed the heat treatment market. As always to bring clarity into and map this ever-expanding space, Manufacturing Technology Insights proudly presents its special edition on heat treating solution providers. We hope the valuable insights from industry thought leaders and emerging companies featured in this edition will help you in making informed decisions for your organization.Let us know your thoughts!Advancing Heat Treatments with TechnologyEditorialCopyright © 2019 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.Contact Us:Phone:510.936.8381Fax:510-894.8405Email:sales@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.comeditor@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.commarketing@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.com December - 06 - 2019, Vol 05 - Issue 25 (ISSN 2644-2493) Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to Manufacturing Technology InsightsVisit www.manufacturingtechnologyinsights.com Editor-in-ChiefLaura DavisEditorial StaffSalesVisualizerJaxon JaseAndrew D'souzaandrew@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.comAva Gracia Peter ThomasRose DcruzAaron PaulTECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSTECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSLaura DavisEditor-in-ChiefManufacturing Technology InsightsWrite to useditor@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.com*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staff
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