Temperature Sensing
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how through-process optical profiling can lead to a better product.
- Describe the innovations in through-process profiling helps in understanding the gas carburization process.
- Discuss how thermocouple accuracy can be achieved in terms of monitoring and controlling.
- List industry standards that apply to thermocouples.
Credits:
This course may qualify for continuing education through the NYSED. For further information, please visit the NYSED website at http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/pels/peceques.htm.
This course may qualify for continuing education through the FBPE.
Purpose statement:
The purpose of this course is to look at the latest approaches and equipment for process temperature monitoring and helps provide a general overview of what a successful furnace heat-treat process looks like.Below are a set of links to articles from Industrial Heating. Click on each link below to read the articles and then complete the quiz to earn your credit and certificate of completion.
Carburizing has rapidly become one of the most critical heat-treatment processes for applications such as the auto industry. The temperature and process time significantly influence surface characteristics, and the success of carburization is dependent on accurate, repeatable control of the product temperature and time at temperature through the complete heat-treatment process. This course looks at the latest approaches and equipment for process temperature monitoring and helps provide a general overview of what a successful furnace heat-treat process looks like.
Applying Through-Process Optical Profiling for a Product’s-Eye ViewIn the global industrial heat-treating market, tens of thousands of products are sent through conveyorized ovens or furnaces each and every day. This article discusses the thermal processes of these products that lead to the success of your operation and the satisfaction of customers.
Dr. Steve Offley
Applying Through-Process Temperature Monitoring to Fully Understand Your Complete Gas Carburizing Process
One of the key process performance factors associated with gas carburization is the control and monitoring of the product quench step. This article looks at innovations in thru-process temperature-profiling technology that offer specific system designs to meet the respective application challenges.
Dr. Steve Offley
Thermocouple Accuracy and Adherence to Critical Standards
Since their discovery 200 years ago, thermocouples continue to prove themselves as reliable, repeatable and accurate temperature measurement devices when properly monitored and controlled. This article looks at how the selection and application of thermocouples, in conjunction with adherence to industry standards, can be achieved when offsets are applied and operational use is properly monitored and documented.
Andrew Bassett and Eric Yeager

Using “thru-process” temperature monitoring allows you to gain a better understanding of your gas carburizing process from beginning to end.