Heat Treating Careers

01

Read production schedules and work orders to determine processing sequences, furnace temperatures, and heat cycle requirements for objects to be heat-treated.

02

Record times that parts are removed from furnaces to document that objects have attained specified temperatures for specified times.

03

Adjust controls to maintain temperatures and heating times, using thermal instruments and charts, dials and gauges of furnaces, and color of stock in furnaces to make setting determinations.

04

Start conveyors and open furnace doors to load stock, or signal crane operators to uncover soaking pits and lower ingots into them.

05

Set up and operate or tend machines, such as furnaces, baths, flame-hardening machines, and electronic induction machines, that harden, anneal, and heat-treat metal.

06

Determine flame temperatures, current frequencies, heating cycles, and induction heating coils needed, based on degree of hardness required and properties of stock to be treated.

07

Determine types and temperatures of baths and quenching media needed to attain specified part hardness, toughness, and ductility, using heat-treating charts and knowledge of methods, equipment, and metals.

08

Set up and operate die-quenching machines to prevent parts from warping.

09

Examine parts to ensure metal shades and colors conform to specifications, using knowledge of metal heat-treating.

10

Set and adjust speeds of reels and conveyors for prescribed time cycles to pass parts through continuous furnaces.