July 15, 2025

Consultant for consultant

I was approached by Michael Pfeifer, the owner and protagonist of an American metallurgical consulting company. We spent several hours together on the screen in an
July 10, 2025

LPC

After a long hiatus, I created a new e-learning course, LPC, for low-pressure carburizing. Not only because it is modern, but also because this technology is
June 8, 2025

ECHT Prague 2025 – What was it like?

To repeat history, since 2000, the ECHT conference has been held 3 times in Prague. Why the attraction? Prague is simply perfect. In addition to the
April 17, 2025

ECHT 2025

Program ECHT 2025 Preliminary Jiří Stanislav April 17, 2025            
April 10, 2025

Heat Treatment Forum Wroclaw

This is how another year of the Heat Treatment Forum in Wroclaw ended. Karol Forycki’s participation in this event is incredible. Even though the number of
April 6, 2025

Heat Treatment Forum Mercedes

Unfortunately, I didn’t have time this year either. So the only Czech representative at this Karol Forycki event was Viktor Novák with his son from Pardubice.
January 24, 2025

Heat Treatment Forum Wroclaw 2025

Heat Treatment Forum Wroclaw – an event that caught my attention back in 2019, when I received the first invitation from Karol. It was nice and
December 2, 2024

Jihlava and Czech conference on heat treatment

The end of the year is a bit hectic. So, stopping in Jihlava for the conference brought at least a moment of calm and well-being. And
November 25, 2024

29th National Conference on Heat Treatment

    Jiří Stanislav November 25m  2024  
August 1, 2024

29. National Conference on Heat Treatment

        So far, I am leading in the lectures… http://www.htconference.cz/en/ Jiří Stanislav 1. srpna 2024
June 24, 2024

New e-learning course Hardness Measurement

So I added another e-learning course to my portfolio, this time focusing on hardness measurement. This concludes the first round of my quest to make heat
May 31, 2024

Heat Treatment Forum Stuttgart, 2024

Karol Forycki expands his activities to Germany… But it is beautiful to see the direct connection between the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart and the Porsche Museum
May 2, 2024

Wroclaw recap

Jiří Stanislav May 2,  2024      
April 27, 2024

Low in marketing

So, I got lost again where I shouldn’t have been. Among the Women of the North. Yes, there were only women there, and apart from the
April 18, 2024

Heat Treatment Forum in Wroclaw

This week the Heat Treatment Forum took place in Wroclaw, organized by Karol Forycki for the Polish public. As usual, a great opportunity to meet great
March 16, 2024

Heat Treatment Forum 2023

  Jiří Stanislav March 16, 2024      
February 20, 2024

Beneš a Lát

  Jiří Stanislav February 20, 2024      
February 18, 2024

Heat Treatment Forum Wroclaw

Themes of the Forum concerns issues related both to the heat and thermo-chemical treatment processes themselves, joining metals by brazing, process control, maintenance, quality assurance systems.
January 25, 2024

E-learning for Heat Treaters

When I started the e-learning courses for heat treaters, I only had a hunch that it might be beneficial to the standard life of heat treatment
January 19, 2024

Education 70+

Thanks to Aleš Šlechta, I took part in the course “Thinking Strategy, Effective Communication with Key Partners and Mind Maps”. https://www.krauthammer.com/cs/o-n%C3%A1s/ And what did it bring
December 6, 2023

New course on Sales Order Receiving

At the conference in Jihlava, Pavel Stolař and I disagreed on whether the new standard ISO 20431:2023 is good or bad. The problem was that, from
November 26, 2023

Material and Equipment in Heat Treatment 2023

So the conference is over and we can recap. It will probably not be received well, but the professional side of the conference, like last year,
November 1, 2023

Conference ATZK 2023

Program 2023 02 We are ready …   Jiří Stanislav 31. října  2023
September 29, 2023

E-learning for heat treatment facilities

Once upon a time, I made a commitment to create a comprehensive training system for employees of the heat treatment plants in the form of e-learning.
September 27, 2023

ISO 20431:2023

In July of this year, the new standard ISO 20431:2023, concerning heat treatment and quality assurance, was published very discreetly. Seemingly similar to CQI-9, in fact
June 12, 2023

Thermprocess 2023

See you tomorrow Jiří Stanislav June 12,  2023
May 31, 2023

Národní centrum kompetence

Project  Optimizing the properties of titanium alloy implants prepared by 3D printing by applying the HIP process Solvers:  Technical University in Ostrava Galvamet spol s r.o.
May 29, 2023

Customer training

I have already done a number of trainings, but this one really pleased me. The topics were general, the responsibility of the designer, the technologist, hardening,
May 6, 2023

Heat Treatment Forum once again

Karol Forycki created nice compilation …. Thanks Karol May 6,  2023 Jiří Stanislav  
April 21, 2023

Heat Treatment Forum 2023

  So, I’m back and I can rate. The organizer Karol Forycki did a great job and he needs to be congratulated. A good composition of
April 15, 2023

Wroclaw 2023

A final program April 15, 2023 Jiří Stanislav  
March 29, 2023

Annual membership meeting

This time in companies belonging to the KOH-I-NOOR group, Gama Group Jimramov and PONAS in Polička. Gama is a manufacturer of disposable medical devices made of
March 16, 2023

Nadca 207 and incoming material quality control in Class 2

  Materials purchased in Class 2 In this case Nadca 207 says nothing. Even so, the steel should have the same quality as in the case
March 10, 2023

Nadca 207 and input material quality control in Class 1

As I stated earlier, the material for die casting dies should be categorized in Class 1 or Class 2. According to this classification, testing also belongs
March 7, 2023

Comtes FHT and AOBP seminar

For those interested, a seminar on Development of modern metal components for special applications   March 7 , 2023 Jiří Stanislav  
February 28, 2023

Nadca 207 – 2022 – Purchase of steel

So, I’m back from vacation and I can continue my philosophizing about the Nadca 207. From previous posts I shared my opinion on the design of
February 15, 2023

Nadca 207–2022 – Categorization of die parts

  If we have already designed the parts of the die, the next logical step is to categorize them in terms of process steps during the
February 14, 2023

ECM Academy

  So I’m looking forward to this… February 14, 2023 Jiří Stanislav  
February 7, 2023

Heat Treatment Forum Wroclaw 2023

  Two important events will take place in Wroclaw from April 18 to 20. The first is focused on heat treatment. It is an honor to
December 1, 2022

Heat Treatment Forum Wroclaw 2023

  From April 18 to 20, Karol Forycki is organizing another meeting of supporters of heat treatment and industrial washing after the Covid break. I think
November 27, 2022

28th National Conference on Heat Treatment

The 28th heat treatment conference took place in Jihlava. Although the participation was rich, I still missed the personalities from the past. Ota Prikner, Jirka Halásek,
November 18, 2022

B2B in Japan

My friend Janusz Kowalewski works as a sales representative for Ipsen in Asia. On Linkedin, he formulated some principles for negotiating with Japanese partners. I find
November 14, 2022

National Metallurgist Day

Happy Birthday to all Metallurgists November 14, 2022 Jiří Stanislav  
October 26, 2022

Czech National Conference on Heat Treatment

program-28dtz October 26, 2022 Jiří Stanislav  
October 21, 2022

Offer e-learning courses Nadca 207

Prospekt E Learning Engl 1 and samples October 21, 2022 Jiří Stanislav  
October 4, 2022

Nadca 207 and e-learning courses in English

That’s how I managed to do an incredible job, my courses on Nadca 207 are translated into English. Almost two months of work! And why? Well,
October 1, 2022

E-seminar

Like last year, I have dedicated  my time to an e-seminar hosted by SecoWarwick. Some things caught my attention, but many did not. I think the
September 29, 2022

HeatTreatDoctor

Yesterday’s SecoW seminar program was only interesting in that Tom Hart’s questions were answered by the well-known Daniel H. Herring, The Heat Treat Doctor. If anyone
September 27, 2022

e-SEMINAR 4.2

An e-seminar organized by SecoWarwick starts today. 27.09.2022, Tuesday BLOCK 01 – FUTURE: The future is now. So what will tomorrow bring? 28.09.2022, Wednesday BLOCK 02
September 8, 2022

ŽĎAS and ESR

There was a discreet message on Linkedin that ŽĎAS is launching its first steel remelting furnace using the ESR method. And since ŽĎAS also produces H13
August 31, 2022

Heat treatment plant audit for Nadca 207

One of the things I’ve learned over time is that tool makers or die casters don’t know, or don’t want to know, that they should be
June 24, 2022

[18] Nadca as Quality Manual

18 Nadca 207 2016 As Quality Manual Proceedings of publications, Vacuum Heat Treatment and Heat Treatment of Tools, Conference, 2018, Puchov, Slovakia  
June 24, 2022

[17] Practical experiences with Nadca

17-practical-experiences-with-nadca Proceedings of publications, CZ National Conference, 2013, Jihlava  
June 13, 2022

EasySteel

Occasionally there is an application that can make life easier for those who work with steels. Although the TAVENGINEERING company is a service organization of TAV
June 11, 2022

Euroguss 2022

Coincidentally, I was invited to EUROGUSS, the international die casting fair. Well, in the end, since I’ve been promoting Nadca 207 in heat treatment since 1999,
May 28, 2022

28th National Conference on Heat Treatment

May 28,  2022 Jiří Stanislav  
April 5, 2022

Czech Die Casting Association

On Thursday, March 31, the spring meeting of the Czech Foundry Company, Expert Commission for Die Casting, Section 06, focused mainly on die casting of aluminum
March 25, 2022

HeaTreatToday

So I have a new family … https://www.heattreattoday.com/resources/heat-treat-consultants/ March 25,  2022 Jiří Stanislav  
February 3, 2022

E-learning during a pandemic

Today ‘s time is really special. I have two vaccinations, we underwent Covid, so I achieved an officially recognized parameter of freedom. So, I can work
January 25, 2022

HeatTreatToday

Sometimes some things happen without us wanting or anticipating them. Last year, I had some very hard discussions with TAV Vacuum about furnace programming. My goal,
January 17, 2022

Legal spects of the Heat Treatment

Right from the beginning of 2022, I expanded my training portfolio with Legal aspects of heat treatment, moreover in a trilingual configuration of Czech, English and
November 4, 2021

Czech Association for Heat Treatment of Metals Jihlava 2021

  4th November 2021 Jiří Stanislav
October 18, 2021

Conference for forensic experts 2021

  18th of October Jiří Stanislav
September 15, 2021

Aeromixer 2021, Wroclaw

The only heat treatment shop in CZ, with a Nadcap certificate for the aerospace industry, is Galvamet from Vsetín. Although a recovery in the aviation industry
April 12, 2021

QI – central brain of the company

From the beginning of our business we have encountered, as well as others (it was 1992 year) problems with accounting and ERP system. We started with
April 10, 2021

E-learning and training courses

The basic problem with managing commercial heat treatment shops  is the lack of time for anything. This is usually a very narrow group of employees, who