“Due to numerous requests we extended the subject,” says Rudnev. “It became a 50-minute lecture on the different aspects of induction heat treatment of gears including materials, microstructure, modes of induction heating ("tooth-by-tooth", "gap-by-gap", spin hardening, etc.), power control modes, stresses, hardening profiles, electromagnetics, computer modeling, etc.”

David Popkey, manager of international sales at Inductoheat, was pleased with the turnout at the event. “We had a full house for the program. The Q&A session went two hours longer than we expected, which was a pleasant surprise.”

Rudnev agreed. “The most impressive part was that nobody disappeared during the seminar. Due to the overwhelming amount of questions, we stayed longer at the end of each day.”