Case hardening (carburizing) produced globular and semi continuous carbides an undesirable brittle phase in the case microstructure
Heat Treat Assistance:
If it's a heat treat department you're looking to add to your company or simply a certification on a heat treated part, we can help. We have assisted clients in:
Evaluating Heat Treat Costs
Five of our clients have decided to shut down their heat treat departments and outsource to commercial heat treaters. We helped in this process for a smooth transition through recommending heat treaters, quality evaluations, establishing heat treat recipes, establishing metallurgical specifications, and provided training for inspectors on uniform receiving inspection of heat treated components.
Process Development
Our Principal Metallurgist is a heat treat expert. He has assisted clients in developing a variety of heat treatments, including simple low carbon steel components, alloy steels, stainless steels, tool steels, non ferrous metals, and exotic steels such as stainless tool steels, and XD materials similar to Vasco and Pyroware. We can provide process development assistance in the following:
- Carburizing
- Carbonitriding
- Nitrocarburizing
- Nitriding
- Induction/ Flame Hardening
- Normalizing
- Annealing
- Stress Relieving
- Ferrous Material Heat Treating
- Stainless and Tool Steel Heat Treating
- Brazing
- Plating/Coating
Is your heat treat supplier or your heat treat operation not performing consistently by not giving you the quality or dimensional stability you expect? We can help. We have solved many problems related to:
- Distortion
- Metallurgical Defects
- Metallurgical Specifications
- New Heat Treat Techniques/Processes
- Induction Hardening problems
We can completely reverse engineer the metallurgical, material, dimensional lay out and heat treat process for you. We can even go as far as heat treating the reverse engineered component to provide capability studies and cost analysis and provide you with a finished 3-D or 2-D engineering print.
Our Principal Metallurgist has authored a pocket book on this subject and on metallurgy. (see the pocket book section)
