T. Benoit, Flame Treating, West Hartford, CT
Several years ago Flame Treating was approached by a manufacturer of industrial equipment to flame harden critical components along the edge of a machined rail like surface. The parts were made of 416 SS had a procedure developed where the operator hand held a blowpipe and using temple lacquer was flame hardening the leading edge of these very expensive industrial components that are critical to the operation of a multi million dollar piece of equipment.
I will discuss how we worked with the customer to rewrite the procedure using our past experiences in hardening straight edge type section using mechanical driven tooling. We then merged the PLC and optical pyrometry to produce a controlled repeatable process at a significantly higher level of quality.
Summary: Several years ago Flame Treating was approached by a manufacturer of industrial equipment to flame harden critical components along the edge of a machined rail like surface. The parts were made of 416 SS had a procedure developed where the operator hand held a blowpipe and using temple lacquer was flame hardening the leading edge of these very expensive industrial components that are critical to the operation of a multi million dollar piece of equipment.
I will discuss how we worked with the customer to rewrite the procedure using our past experiences in hardening straight edge type section using mechanical driven tooling. We then merged the PLC and optical pyrometry to produce a controlled repeatable process at a significantly higher level of quality.
