Topics

The technical areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

* Heat treatment processes for tools and dies

* Material and process selection for tooling

* Physical metallurgy for the heat treatment of tooling materials

* Advanced surface engineering for tooling applications

* Physical and numerical process simulation for the heat treatment of tools and dies

* Heat treatment response in the context of properties and microstructures of new

 tooling materials

* Advanced equipment for the heat treatment and surface engineering of tools and dies