Maintenance — regular and ongoing — is critically important in keeping that oven or dryer safe and in good operational order.

The more you use something, the sooner you will use it up. This is even true of industrial ovens and dryers.

Convection ovens are used for many industrial heating processes performed on a variety of substrates. Regardless of what they are used for, industrial ovens typically are evaluated for functionality and performance based a on few criteria: temperature uniformity, operating efficiency and heat transfer rates. This article will explore these criteria and their importance on performance.

Sustainability is a buzzword that has been around since the late 1960s. Even going back further, that renowned engineer and quality guru, W. Edwards Deming, had a well-circulated quote: “One must learn to do more with less.”

Oven end-users often struggle with equipment that no longer meets their current production or process needs. “Should we replace our existing equipment with a new oven or repair, retrofit or rebuild the existing equipment?” is a familiar refrain. 

In architectural glazing applications, the use of heat-treated glass reduces the breakage potential due to stress induced by temperature change and strain from wind and snow loads considerably.