Best Practice For Design And Manufacturing Of Heat Treating Inductors

With the use of good design practices, one can improve coil longevity and improve production quality.  By eliminating failure points in the initial design, proper material selection, improved cooling and proper magnetic flux control, induction tooling life can be increased.  Computer simulation has been proven to be an effective tool for predicting not only electromagnetic parameters of a designed system, but also heat patterns in a given part and in the induction coil itself.  When a coil has magnetic flux controllers present, their influence may also be predicted by computer simulation.  With an extensive library of published case studies in induction coil design and performance evaluations, we are confident with the use of these tools and proper coil geometries and implementation, production life and quality can be improved on most induction heat treating inductors.  These design practices have been used by the authors for over 20 years with proven results.