This one day workshop will provide a basic understanding of heat treatment processes, why they are necessary, what they involve and what goes wrong. It will encompass the heat treatment of the most common engineering metals, i.e. ferrous metals, including stainless steels, nickel based alloys and the light alloys titanium and aluminium. Surface treatments will be mentioned but the emphasis will be on bulk heat treatment.

Who should attend

The workshop will be targeted at those who need a general understanding of heat treatment rather than operational knowledge. It should be of interest to recipients of heat treatment services or to arms-length providers of heat treatment. Typical attendees might be purchasers of heat treatment services, design engineers, quality control technicians and sales personnel of heat treatment providers.

Speakers
Course Manager: Ken Wrigley.
Ken Wrigley is currently a consultant on metals processing issues. He is a career metallurgist with over 30 years of experience in the provision of heat treated products, particularly to the aerospace, offshore, railway and general engineering sectors. In a career culminating as Technical Director of a number of forging companies, he has experience of heat treatment issues from shop floor to boardroom. He has been an active member of BSI drafting committees, TIG, the Materials Forum and has presented on the Sheffield Universities MSc modules.