HEAT TREATMENT SEMINARS

Heat Treatment, Selection and Application of Tool Steels seminars cover these topics:

· The BEST, most effective heat treat processes available, tailored specifically to YOUR steel usages. We want to help you save money and time by doing it the right way.

· Straight forward knowledge of how to chose the best steel for the application and take the guess work out of the equation.

· How to Heat Treat Tool Steels, High Speed Steels and Alloy Steels.  

· Instructions on how and when to use Water Quenched Steels, Oil Quenched or Air Hardened grades.

· How to improve tool life by:

             Better heat treat practices.

             Care about the grain, not just hardness.

             Proper tempering can make a great tool.

             How to avoid dangerous short-cuts.

             Cryogenic processing.

             Coatings to improve life.

· Expert furnace room evaluation.  We provide a written report of the state of your tool room and suggest ways to improve operations.

· Want or need straight, or flat, parts? We’ll offer ways and help of how to get there with your parts.

 

A typical seminar will cover:

· Steel basics (What is steel?)

· What do the steel grades mean?

· The tools used to heat treat.

· Important furnace operations.

· Surface protection methods.

· Carburization and Decarburization.

· Using fixtures to straighten parts.

· Avoiding the 3 disasters of distortion.

· Step-by-step through the process.

· What takes place in the steel?

· Why Temperature is critical.

· Why Time is Critical.

· How the Transformation occurs.

· Why is Tempering such a big deal?

· How does Cryogenics help?

· When and how to straighten.

· When to use multiple tempers, how and why.

· What to do about EDM surfaces.

· Can you weld a tool steel?

· Annealing a tool.

· Grinding dos and don’ts.

· Good shortcuts / bad shortcuts.

· Selection of the right steel.

· Application intelligence.

· QUESTION AND ANSWER session.

· Solving problems on actual parts.

· How to become a Tool Steel Detective.

· More.

 

SEMINAR FACTS

· A typical seminar will take 3 to 5 hours.

· Seminars are conducted for any size group.  We’ve done 1 on 1 and we’ve done 175 in a meeting.

· An average seminar (Average seminars have 10-15 attendees) costs $63 per person, with textbook supplied (Textbook is a $38.00 value), $40 per person with no textbook, plus travel expenses. Call for a firm quote.

· We have conducted over 250 seminars for industry, tech schools and Technical Societies.

· Many seminars bring heat-treaters, tool makers, engineers and buyers together to learn the problems they unknowingly create for each other and break down the brick walls between departments.

· We conduct seminars on Heat Treating, Selection and Application as well as seminars for Cryogenic Processing.  Either way, they are both covered equally well in both seminars. 

· CONTACT US FOR A FORMAL QUOTE FOR YOUR FIRM.