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We have updated the look of the Eurotherm website to make this site easier to navigate and now includes links to our blogs.

Martin and Colwell: Minimizing time to experience, maximizing human performance | ISA.

I encourage everyone to read the full article, but I have highlighted a couple of sections below that are pertinent to the Heat Treat Industry.

“While the effectiveness of on-the-job training has been accepted for decades, its traditional approach usually involves highly experienced workers overseeing the behavior of less experienced workers. While this is good, the objective is still merely to make the less experienced workers only as efficient as their mentors.”

The above is my experience within a Heat Treat shop, the article continues to explain some new methods to enhance the abilities of new workers:

“KPIs and other data allow plant personnel to see and understand how their domain of responsibility impacts the operational and financial performance of the plant (and entire enterprise) in a format that corresponds with their individual experience, training, and capability. For example, after the KPIs are established, “dashboards” or “scorecards” that provide real-time performance feedback are embedded in the training environment. With this immediate data, everyone can assess their performance and understand how their actions have influenced the operational and financial potential of the plant. On average, such enhanced experiential training realizes a 100% return on investment within three months.”

Invensys Operations Management on the back of the widely used Wonderware Software Platform and Eurotherm Controls/Recorders have added to capabilities of KPI displays with Workflow modules and Energy (CEM) modules, these allow for contextualizing of energy use against batches processed as well as utilizing Workflow techniques to ensure ‘Business Rules’ are followed on the shopfloor.

If you are interestd in more  information, please contact me via email for more information peter.sherwin@invensys.com

Having worked with a variety of relatively new heat treat processes which all involve a rapid quench to achieve specific properties (Nitrotec, Intensive quenching) I am interested to see the development of this Flash High temperature Heat Treatment process which claims to produce a mixed microstructure of martensite, carbides and bainite.

Be interested in others comments and if they have some experience with this process.

New Sections include;

Top Section -  automatically scrolls through selected blogs or you can select the blog from the list on the right of this section.  In the Sidebar Menus (located under the Search Bar)

The top sidebar menu gives a choice of the latest blogs, popular blogs, comments made and tag cloud.

The second sidebar menu is the Category Cloud to help searching the site (the bigger the font size the more posts made on that subject!)

We have kept other menus, such as Videos, Twitter feed, Archives and Box.net.

If you have any comments about the redesign, please feel free to post. I hope you also have chance to read the latest information regarding our new Machine HMI – the PenGUIn.

Please click on the pictures below to access the latest Eurotherm article in the latest Industrial Heating magazine (page 34) or click on this link http://digital.bnpmedia.com/publication/?i=57653