Overview of Common vacuum heat treatment furnace Equipment

Overview of Common vacuum heat treatment furnace Equipment

vacuum heat treatment furnace are available in numerous styles and sizes and come in both standard and custom configurations. They are designed to process an almost limitless number of both semi-finished component parts as well as raw materials using a diverse set of thermal processes in equipment available from a wide variety of different equipment manufacturers located around the world.
Why Vacuum?Historically, vacuum heat-treating applications were classified in one of four areas, namely processes that could be:
Performed using no technology other than vacuum
Done better in vacuum from a metallurgical perspective
Done better in vacuum from an economic standpoint
Done better in vacuum from a surface enhancement perspective
Today, given the demands for productivity and flexibility vacuum heat-treatment has been the preferred choice by the heat-treat industry. This is due to a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the technology (and hence the end result of the heat treatment process) now rests in the machine and not with the individual operating it. The drivers for vacuum technology are:
Process control (i.e., accuracy)
Process repeatability,
Up-time reliability
Adaptability to new materials, new processes and new recipes
Integration with manufacturing
Reduced environmental impact.
All of these factors have resulted in a strong economic advantage for vacuum processing driven by higher productivity, less distortion and decreased cycle times.
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