Induction Heat Treating

Basically, a furnace is an enclosed space for burning some type of fuel. The hot-air furnace is used to heat buildings. Radiators are hot-water furnaces, in which water is heated until it becomes steam. The potter's kiln is a kind of furnace. In industry, the blast furnace has a lengthy history of importance in the separation of metals from their ores.

The very names of these heating devices indicate their differences from induction heating equipment. Furnaces and ovens consume fuel; induction heat treating requires no fuel. Furnaces heat from the outside of an object and slowly raise the inner temperature to a desired level; induction heat treating induces immediate high temperatures from within a part.

High Quality Control

The rapid heating of a workpiece can reduce surface oxidation and scaling. Rapid, internal heating also helps improve the quality of workpieces, especially because each piece is identically heated. Perhaps the most obvious advantage of real-time induction heating is in the continuous production line. Should a quality issue arise, it can be corrected immediately, but in a batch production line, errors or defects affect the entire batch.

Economic Savings

Heat treating is the heating and cooling of a metal or alloy. Because of the controlled, precise heating of induction heat treating, this process can reduce the amount of scrap. The speed of the heating process also increases productivity because more parts can be treated. Induction heating equipment results in reduced floor space. Because no warm-up time is required, work and production time are decreased.