The Benefits of Automated Material Handling Solutions in Thermal Processing

Today, industrial automation offers many solutions to optimize production and support quality control for your heat treat and thermal processes line. Automated systems reduce maintenance downtime, increase employee safety, and increase production capacity.

Automated gantry loaders are considered some of the best approaches to efficiently moving large batches of metal parts and components through your heat treat process.

Which heat treat process can be automated? With Surface Combustion’s expertise, you can achieve an automated process for carburizing, carbonitriding, ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC) annealing, tempering. And the range of material handling solutions that can be automated to complement our heat treat furnaces for large batch processes include lifts, loaders, trays, conveyors, gantry loaders, and more.

Surface Combustion is a leading manufacturer of heat treating equipment products and related automation systems, providing you with options from our extensive line of furnaces as well as custom engineered automation equipment solutions.

Retrofitting to Automated Systems
Retrofitting your existing furnace and material handling system is an option to help bring your process in line with today’s state-of-the-art heat treating and thermal processing furnaces. For example, automatic quenching is possible with our System #1^TM rear handler retrofit in Allcase® batch integral quench furnaces. Learn more about Surface Combustion’s system rebuild and retrofitting capabilities here. Surface Combustion also provides control systems for continuous and automated batch lines.

Surface is Your Source
Surface offers both the engineering expertise and equipment range to help you bring innovative equipment automation solutions to your heat treat process and achieve the results you need. Our engineers work with you to determine the best Surface furnace equipment to suit your automated heat treat production – from loading to unloading batch parts and components, including moving loads between processes or equipment.

Surface Combustion has earned a trusted reputation for providing rugged, reliable performance in thermal processing. And our approach to heat treat equipment automation provides the same proven quality you expect.

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