Continuous Systems for Industrial Heat Treatment
Continuous heat treatment systems are used in industrial heat treatment when components are processed in high volumes with stable process parameters. The components pass continuously through multiple process zones within the system.
Application Areas of Continuous Systems
Continuous systems are primarily used in high-volume production. Typical applications can be found in the automotive industry, the bearing industry, or in the production of fasteners.
Pusher type furnaces
Roller hearth furnaces
Ring hearth furnace
Rotary hearth furnaces
Isothermal normalizing/annealing furnaces
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Controlled atmosphere pit furnace heat treatment production line
Heat treatment for large parts
Large-Scaled Chamber Tempering-Hardening Furnace
Applicable for pre-heat treatment of large batch forgings and castings
Pusher-type furnace systems
Aichelin pusher-type furnace systems are designed for continuous gas carburizing processes in series production.
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Cleaning Systems
Aichelin cleaning systems ensure reliable cleaning of components before and after heat treatment, thereby securing the quality of subsequent processes.
Used for heat treatment of large capacities of metal parts
The advanced furnace type developed by AICHELIN combines the advantages of the rotary hearth furnace and the pusher type furnace, featuring separate heating, carburizing, and diffusion zones. Different carbon potential and temperature distribution curves can be achieved in almost independent furnace chambers.
Vacuum furnaces
Not only applicable to general heat treatment, but also used in the aerospace industry and the medical device industry
Used for pre-heat treatment of large capacities of metal parts
Normalizing and annealing are the most widely applied processes in the heat treatment industry. When ordinary normalizing workpiece in pile to cooling, the temperature difference between inside and outside is large, and the workpiece or sections with fast cooling speed form the grain Bainite structure; However, the workpiece or sections with too slow cooling rate precipitate too much proeutectoid ferrite, resulting in uneven structure and hardness. So isothermal normalizing furnace has solved this problem. There are pusher type, roller type, ring type, etc. for option.
Chamber Furnaces
Aichelin chamber furnaces are designed for batch heat treatment and offer high flexibility for changing requirements.
Chamber gas nitriding furnace heat treatment production line
for metal parts nitriding treatment
Rotary hearth furnaces
Aichelin rotary hearth furnaces are specially designed for multi-variety batch production, enabling stable process cycles.
Roller Hearth Furnace
Aichelin roller hearth furnaces with protective gas operation are designed for continuous processes with high requirements for component quality.
When Continuous Systems Are the Right Solution
Continuous systems are particularly suitable for production processes with high volumes and stable process parameters. They enable a constant material flow through multiple process zones and can be easily integrated into automated production lines.
Typical application scenarios:
High-volume series production
Automated production lines
Consistent component geometries
Continuous heat treatment processes
Continuous Systems Compared to Batch Systems
While continuous systems are designed for high production volumes and automated series processes, batch systems offer greater flexibility for varying components and batch sizes.
| Continuous Systems | Batch Systems |
|---|---|
| Continuous Systems | Flexible production with varying batch sizes |
| Automated production lines | Individual batch processes |
| Continuous material flow | Batch processing |
| High system throughput | High process flexibility |
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