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October 21, 2024
ECM has established itself in Taiwan by building an LPC technology support center. Sometimes I really wonder how ECM tries to promote trends in heat treatment
October 21, 2024
ECM has established itself in Taiwan by building an LPC technology support center. Sometimes I really wonder how ECM tries to promote trends in heat treatment
October 19, 2024
On 15 and 16 October, a meeting of NCK, the engineering consortium, took place at Comtes FHT in Dobřany. Together with my colleague Tomáš Čegan, we
October 14, 2024
In 2003 I visited the ECM in Grenoble for the first time. My interest was to purchase equipment with LPC for Bodycote CZ, and I was
October 9, 2024
Next week, Galvamet together with VŠB Ostrava will submit the first accounts of the development of Dievar 3D printing with the support of HIP. The results
October 4, 2024
After about a year and a half, I visited ECM again. And since there was time, my guide Cédric Villard also showed me what is not
September 29, 2024
September 21, 2024
From May 2024, there is a new subsidy program for energy savings, and I expected an investment boom in heat treatment operations, aimed at this area
September 15, 2024
Even though the floods are raging outside, the heat treatment market is in a calm mood. It looks like nothing is happening, but it isn’t. An
September 13, 2024
The Czechimplant conference took place in Jihlava yesterday. An interesting meeting, including about 3D printing of implants. One contribution from Prospon and Zdenek Čejka, the other
September 11, 2024
Yesterday I went to Germany with Viktor Novák. We wanted to see an ECM line with a robotic loader. What if in the future we had
September 6, 2024
I already wrote on my blog about the innovative LPC solution from ECM. ECM Nano I am very pleased that this is already a practically applied
September 2, 2024
PMI purchasing index in Germany and comparison with the Czech Republic over the last 5 years. That’s not very optimistic…. Even so, heat treatment can be
August 29, 2024
When choosing a new furnace, we have to consider a number of criteria that I tried to describe in the previous chapters. In this last section,
August 25, 2024
In this section, we will focus on the energy consumption of annealing and tempering furnaces. There are a large number of different designs of tempering or
August 20, 2024
In the first part, we tried to define the furnace for annealing and tempering from the point of view of the surface condition of the processed
August 13, 2024
In my past career, I well remember our constant battle between what the management wanted and what we wanted. Our first vacuum tempering B64R furnace from
August 8, 2024
Well, this guy and his website, that’s genius. I smile in front of this work and I can only hope that all this remains preserved for
August 1, 2024
So far, I am leading in the lectures… http://www.htconference.cz/en/ Jiří Stanislav 1. srpna 2024
July 29, 2024
On my blog already in 2021, I published the theoretical course of the production process of the die-casting dies. https://intelligent-kalam.80-240-27-133.plesk.page/jak-na-zihaci-procesy-u-form-na-tlakove-liti/. Since time has advanced, I am
July 12, 2024
I wish everyone a nice summer and mental relaxation before the second half of the year. I have to treat myself to it too, it will
July 10, 2024
At the NCK general meeting, there was an interesting presentation by doc. Ing. Petr Blecha Ph. D from VUT in Brno regarding the new EU
July 4, 2024
Unexpectedly, a newsletter from the company Prikner from Broumov landed on my computer. Right at the beginning it says: Dear customers and partners, We are
June 26, 2024
On Friday I had a video conference with GENCOA regarding the OPTIX device. I am very happy that my expectations were met. Perhaps since sometime in
June 24, 2024
So I added another e-learning course to my portfolio, this time focusing on hardness measurement. This concludes the first round of my quest to make heat
June 18, 2024
Yesterday I attended the general assembly of NCK Strojírenství led by Professor Ing. Miroslav Václavík, CSc. It was such a continuous test of what has been
June 11, 2024
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7206218656098230272/ Le four ECO 966 d’ECM Technologies – Industrial Furnaces remporte le prix « Équipement de traitement thermique vert ». 🏆 Lors du salon des équipements et technologies
June 9, 2024
On Thursday, June 6, an event called XperienceDayTooling organized by EOS and Innomia took place in Jaroměř. Two basic applications of 3D printing were presented, namely
June 3, 2024
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, Galvamet has updated their Nadcap certificate. Anyone who knows what this is about must laugh. And what is the result?
May 31, 2024
Karol Forycki expands his activities to Germany… But it is beautiful to see the direct connection between the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart and the Porsche Museum
May 27, 2024
Fig. 1: Production of passenger cars by 2023 [1] I am personally very attracted to GIGA casting. On the one hand, because part of my
May 13, 2024
Questions are starting to multiply, where is the furnace that can quench the inserts for GIGA dies. So this is the beauty: And what are its
May 13, 2024
The beginnings were modest, but things are better now. If only there was more time… this is the access stat, it’s a nice sight Jiří Stanislav
April 27, 2024
So, I got lost again where I shouldn’t have been. Among the Women of the North. Yes, there were only women there, and apart from the
April 24, 2024
This is always a problem with vacuum systems. We can look for the biggest holes using alcohol. It quickly evaporates on the surface, and if the
April 22, 2024
After presenting a lecture on this topic in Wroclaw, I was approached by several people asking if I was serious. Yes, I mean it, and I’m
April 18, 2024
This week the Heat Treatment Forum took place in Wroclaw, organized by Karol Forycki for the Polish public. As usual, a great opportunity to meet great
April 14, 2024
So, I made myself happy. I bought the iconic book Carbonitriding written by Bohumil Přenosil in 1964 year. Back then it cost 22.50 CZK, now I
April 3, 2024
I’m two years late, but who doesn’t have one today. In 2022 the Nadca 207 update came out, but only now I managed to update
March 30, 2024
Tomorrow will be exactly 6 years since I left my flagship Bodycote. Since 1992, 26 years spent building the field of heat treatment within our original
March 25, 2024
I am receiving regular information from Michal Stupavský, CFA, Investment Strategist, Conseq Investment Management, a. s. It is a very interesting read prepared by experts on
March 15, 2024
Bivoj … When everyone says this name, Czech history comes to mind. But this name is borne by an in laser entered in the Guinness Book
March 14, 2024
Even in calm Czech waters it sometimes gets rough. Galvamet, a commercial heat treater in Vsetín, bought the former Narex Prague and thus created a new
March 8, 2024
There are not too many new innovative solutions in heat processing. Nevertheless, they exist. An example is the NANO system from ECM Technologies from Grenoble. Fig.
February 18, 2024
Themes of the Forum concerns issues related both to the heat and thermo-chemical treatment processes themselves, joining metals by brazing, process control, maintenance, quality assurance systems.
February 12, 2024
I represent two large companies engaged in the production of vacuum furnaces. TAV Vacuum Furnaces and ECM Technologies. In terms of after-sales services, TAV has a
February 5, 2024
From the previous blog, it is clear that even if the pioneer of the new concept of car production is Tesla and Elon Musk, in terms
February 2, 2024
When I wrote last year after Thermoprocess in Dusseldorf about Mega and GIGA casting, I had no idea how big a problem was coming our way.
January 27, 2024
https://youtu.be/PxuZ-omxuik I already thought that there is not much that can be invented in our field. Err, we’re still at the beginning. ECM and its robotics
January 25, 2024
When I started the e-learning courses for heat treaters, I only had a hunch that it might be beneficial to the standard life of heat treatment
January 25, 2024
An interesting article on the production of cemented carbides was published on the TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog. Here is a link to it. Link to TAV
January 19, 2024
Thanks to Aleš Šlechta, I took part in the course “Thinking Strategy, Effective Communication with Key Partners and Mind Maps”. https://www.krauthammer.com/cs/o-n%C3%A1s/ And what did it bring
January 14, 2024
SOLD Do you want to solve energy problems and at the same time reduce the emission footprint of your distillery? Then this is a completely extraordinary
January 11, 2024
Another very interesting event this year is the H2 Forum in Berlin, which will take place from 19 to 20 February 2024. Since I participated in
January 5, 2024
The EUROGUSS 2024 fair will be held in Nuremberg from January 16 to 18. Unfortunately, this year it conflicts with another event of mine, so I
January 3, 2024
Last June I published the first numbers of my statistics. I took into account all heat treatment operations known to me, including PVD and Laser, both
December 23, 2023
An interesting article on the production of cemented carbides was published on the TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog. Here is a link to it. Link to the
December 21, 2023
Are you thinking about low pressure carburizing? Do not hesitate, the equipment from ECM Technologies is among the best available on the market. Merry Christmas and
December 21, 2023
Don’t you have a TAV Vacuum Furnaces furnace yet? With the first oven you buy, you will find that you have been missing this device for
December 21, 2023
Shortly before the end of the year, this report was published in Présences magazine. https://www.presences-grenoble.fr/actualites-classement-de-l-annee-grenoble/leader-de-l-annee-2023-groupe-ecm-l-industrie-meme.htm Growth of 36.1% in 2022, workforce growth of 38% in Grenoble
December 17, 2023
As a philosopher would say, everything good is bad for something… Carburizing under reduced pressure, or vacuum carburizing or low presssure carburizing has the advantage of
December 10, 2023
I ran into a problem. A reputable supplier of low-pressure carburizing furnaces has supplied a brand-new vacuum furnace for this technology, but without the default TUS.
December 6, 2023
At the conference in Jihlava, Pavel Stolař and I disagreed on whether the new standard ISO 20431:2023 is good or bad. The problem was that, from
December 6, 2023
Well, another heat treatment plant visited again…. … and farewell Jiří Stanislav December 6, 2023
November 26, 2023
So the conference is over and we can recap. It will probably not be received well, but the professional side of the conference, like last year,
November 21, 2023
So glory, we already have the first samples … the next step is HIP Jiří Stanislav November 21, 2023
November 15, 2023
So I thought I was completely wrong when I prepared a lecture at a conference in Jihlava on the topic: Heat treatment of large dies for
November 11, 2023
As usual, Galvamet has surprised again and this certificate is just another step forward for the target state. My sincere congratulations to everyone in Vsetín. Jiří
November 4, 2023
Vacuum furnace maintenance is an important part of vacuum processes. If everything is working, we tend to do nothing. However, as soon as a problem appears,
October 31, 2023
October 29, 2023
When our HT-PROGRES was incorporated into the Bodycote structure, Willem was one of the first people I came into contact with. Within CEG (Central European Group)
October 23, 2023
It was an attempt to be there, and at the same time not be there unnecessarily. And it worked. Everyone who was interested in learning more
October 11, 2023
The announced acquisition of Lake City HT and Stack Metallurgical Group in the US is something to be expected. HIP technology is the limiting factor for
October 9, 2023
In the current energy crisis, everyone is looking for some way to survive. Ipsen came up with his idea of hybrid furnace, where when green electricity
September 29, 2023
Once upon a time, I made a commitment to create a comprehensive training system for employees of the heat treatment plants in the form of e-learning.
September 27, 2023
In July of this year, the new standard ISO 20431:2023, concerning heat treatment and quality assurance, was published very discreetly. Seemingly similar to CQI-9, in fact
September 23, 2023
I got an opportunity from Galvamet to participate, so I took it. When Harold Ipsen founded this company long ago, in 1948, he had no idea
September 12, 2023
Economizing printing with HIP technology …. that’s how we’ve already started Jiří Stanislav September 12, 2023
September 7, 2023
Dear Sirs, ECM Technologies (www.ecm-furnaces.com) and Mr Jiří Stanislav (35 + years of experience in thermal processing) would like to invite you an afternoon event (presentation
August 10, 2023
So, we are halfway through the holidays and the time is approaching when the work process will once again become our everyday routine. Yesterday I used
July 2, 2023
Our real world is no longer enough for us, we have destroyed it quite significantly, so we are inventing a virtual world… in fact, we are
June 25, 2023
After visiting Thermprocess 2023 in Dusseldorf, I was left a little scared. At the Chinese company Fulcrum-HSS, I found a mention of the 14th five-year plan
June 20, 2023
Quite by chance I met Karol Forycki at the Thermoprocess 2023 trade fair in Dusseldorf. He told me it was just a jump, he was basically
June 19, 2023
His size exceeded all expectations 2,202 exhibitors 42 countries of the world The largest number of exhibitors is China, 27% There were 40 exhibitors from the
June 11, 2023
As I wrote in the last blog, periodically doing SAT and TUS is a obligation. But it costs money, and a lot of it, so we
June 4, 2023
At the Heat Treatment Forum in Wroclaw, Janusz Kowaleski from Ipsen had an interesting presentation on “Choosing the right vacuum furnace”. All aspects of the selection
May 31, 2023
Project Optimizing the properties of titanium alloy implants prepared by 3D printing by applying the HIP process Solvers: Technical University in Ostrava Galvamet spol s r.o.
May 29, 2023
I have already done a number of trainings, but this one really pleased me. The topics were general, the responsibility of the designer, the technologist, hardening,
May 25, 2023
In 1992, I presented my doctor dissertation focussed on combination of Titanium nitride and plasma nitriding. So, it’s been more than 30 years since I tried
May 20, 2023
As I have long recommended this technology for testing thermal fatigue stress relaxation for die casting dies, I was a bit unhappy as I could not
May 13, 2023
With natural gas prices in mind, there is a lot of talk about hydrogen. Of course, about green, no other colour is worn anymore. But how