Course Description
Format: In-person Course
Where: Cleveland, OH
Date: August 6-8, 2024
- Tuesday, August 6 – 8:00am-5:00pm ET
- Wednesday, August 7 – 8:00am-5:00pm ET
- Thursday, August 8 – 8:00am-12:00pm ET
Reg. Deadline: July 29, 2024
Gear Heat Treatment Operator/Operations
This course provides the heat treat operator and operations team, the means to perform the heat treatment of steel gears in a manner that meets the AGMA and customer requirements in a safe and efficient manner. The course identifies the key requirements for proper processing. Sufficient metallurgical background is provided to allow the student to identify how this information relates to the required processing and properties of the gear.
How Many CEUs Will I Earn?
As an IACET-accredited provider, AGMA offers 1.6 CEUs for this class.
Learning Objectives
- Identify and locate the required information for material, process, and equipment for gear heat treatment
- Recognize how the various heat treatment processes apply to the relevant AGMA documents
- Perform preparation to product and equipment for heat treatment in an efficient and safe manner
- Operate and monitor heat treat equipment, and perform quality control processes
- Perform post-heat treatment processes, Go/No-Go material inspections and cycle documentation reviews
Who Should Attend
Heat Treat Operators, Heat Treat Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Design Engineering
Registration Rates
Member Rates
First Registrant per Member Company
$1,750
Additional Registrant per Member Company
$1,550
NON-MEMBER RATE
First Registrant per Non-Member Company
$2,250
Additional Registrant per Non-Member Company
$2,050
Hotel Information
Hotel Cleveland, Autograph Collection
24 Public Square
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
You can book your room at the discounted rate of $209ย per night. The hotel cutoff date is July 8, 2024.
Instructors
William M. Andreski
Bill Andreski has over thirty years of experience in heavy manufacturing, specializing in medium and large gear manufacturing, steel metallurgy, forging and heat treatment processes. Over a fifteen-year career with Horsburgh & Scott Company, a large gear drive manufacturer in Cleveland, he rose through the ranks as Metallurgist, Purchasing and Engineering Manager, Plant Manager, Director of Heat Treat and Metallurgy, and Business Unit Vice President. He has extensive knowledge of heat treatment processes as applied to gears and forgings, including carburizing, induction hardening, through hardening and nitriding.
He spent five years as Technical Support Metallurgist and Regional Sales Manager for A. Finkl & Sons of Chicago, Illinois. Finkl is a fully integrated tool steel manufacturer and a principal supplier of open die and forging die steels in North America. Following this, for a five-year period, Andreski was Vice President Operations, and Owner-Partner of American Metal Treating, a large commercial induction hardening heat treating company in Cleveland. During this same ten-year period, he was a consultant with the Forging Defense Manufacturing Consortium FORGE-IT team, providing technical and supply chain solutions for the DOD.
In 2011, he formed MetConsult LLC and MobilMetals LLC in Cleveland to provide technical and business consulting services, as well as niche forging and heat treating solutions. The business focus is on the process disciplines of forging, heat treatment, sales and manufacturing of gears and gear drives for industrial, marine, wind markets and transportation markets. He is currently consulting with gear and gear drive manufacturing companies, and heat treating companies, in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Germany, Italy, China and India.
Andreski received a BS Metallurgical Engineering degree from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and MS Material Science Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He also holds an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College in Cleveland.
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