Author name: Eric Sandy

sops

From Pilot Data to Plant Standard: How to Write Your Induction Heating SOP

You proved the case with a pilot. Cycle time dropped. Scrap fell. Energy usage tanked. Now you need to turn that one-cell success into a repeatable process across shifts, plants, and product lines. That means a clear, enforceable Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). Below is a step-by-step blueprint to build it—based on real numbers from your

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induction heating

How to Scale an Induction-Heating Pilot—From One Cell to Full Production

A single induction station can cut hours from a furnace cycle, but the real payoff arrives when you roll that success across your plant.  Below is a practical, step-by-step guide. Follow it and you’ll move from first coil power-up to factory-wide deployment with fewer surprises and a stronger business case. Target the Right Bottleneck Start

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chillers

Chillers as Sensors: How Live Data Stops Induction Line Failures Before They Start

A coil can overheat in less than a minute when its chiller stumbles.  Most shops discover the problem only after the generator shuts down, the coil insulation blisters, or a batch of parts drifts out of spec. You can break that cycle.  Modern chillers stream inlet temperature, outlet temperature, flow, pressure, compressor current, fan speed,

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Keep Your Coil Cool: A Practical Guide to Chillers for Induction Heating

Induction heating dumps a lot of energy into metal fast—often in just a few seconds. That energy also migrates into your copper coil, power leads, and surrounding hardware.  If you don’t pull heat out quickly and consistently, coil temperature drifts, coupling efficiency drops, seals fail, and parts drift out of spec. A well‑chosen chiller fixes

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turbines

Induction Heat: How You Forge and Treat Superalloys for Flight-Ready Turbine Blades

Modern turbine stages run hotter than 1,400 °C and spin past 20,000 rpm. Nickel- and cobalt-based superalloys survive those extremes only when you forge and heat-treat them inside a tight window, hold grain size near ASTM E112 #3–4, and lock in a dense γ′ network. Induction heating lets you hit that window in minutes— not

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powertrain

Next-Gen Powertrain Hardening: Advancements in Induction Heat Treatment

Modern automotive powertrains—whether internal combustion, hybrid, or fully electric—operate under ever-increasing torque and performance demands.  To meet these requirements without resorting to heavy, overbuilt components, manufacturers are leaning on induction heat treatment for gears, shafts, bearings, and other rotating parts.  By controlling how and where heat is applied, induction allows engineers to achieve carefully tailored

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