Several governments across the world have recently stepped up their action to fight climate change. Initiatives include from clean energy production to efficient buildings and reduced emissions from industry. The manufacturing industry will need to examine methods to reduce its carbon footprint, especially across energy-intensive sectors such as heat treatment. This paper explains and explores the latest developments in energy management in heat treatment with a specific focus on electrical heating and associated digital tools. In this paper, developments in IGBT (insulated-gate bipolar transistor) and SCR (silicon-controlled rectifier) technology will be compared as energy-efficient alternatives to variable reactance transformers (VRT’s) for electric vacuum furnaces.
Industry professionals understand that risk is inevitable; it can be managed but not eliminated. Managing risk is not easy, especially with today's products manufactured through complex and multi-tiered supply chains. Compliance and Calibration activities are used to aid management of risk in Industrial processes. Given the importance of this activity; it is necessary to ensure that any calibration undertaken is done accurately, records are held for fast retrieval, and the activity is carried out in the most cost effective manner. The most efficient method of managing the calibration process is to make use of modern digital tools.
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