IPsen offers a new variation of automated heat treat system

摘要

A set of rails, a row of process chambers and a mobile vacuum loader make up the latest heat treat system from Ipsen International Inc. The system's purpose: Allow companies to run different heat treat jobs at the same time and move their parts (read: gears) for quenching while keeping each gear load at its ideal temperature. Ready for sale in October, the system was designed to make a company's heat treat operation as flexible as possible. Called multi-cell, the system can include process chambers that vacuum carburize, vacuum harden or carbonitride. It also can include low temperature chambers that can nitride or ferritic nitrocarburize. Multi-cell can heat treat various types of loose gears. It can also heat treat transmission and drive shaft gears, as well as axles.