Nutec Bickley's Blog

Having excellent connectivity is vital in obtaining information from the production area that helps during decision-making.

From the early days of the department around 1990 we started engineering our furnaces with cutting-edge tools such as CAD (2D computer-aided design) and then, in the year 2000, evolved to use 3D software tools.

Nutec Bickley’s R&D laboratory is used not only for testing and simulation, but also to help develop new products and processes for our customers. We have both direct fired and indirect fired equipment that can control temperatures from 100°C to 1800°C.

Industry 4.0 also known as the Industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is proving to be one of the great technologies that will shape the industrial landscape in the near future.

Adding intelligence to physical objects is never been as easy and cheap as it is now. Condition based maintenance and fault...

For fuel fired industrial kilns and furnaces using preheated combustion air is one of the most efficient ways of saving energy.

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Pulse firing combustion and control systems enable ceramic manufacturers to alleviate the need for large amounts of excess air during firing.

Furnaces for the aerospace industry typically require very homogeneous temperatures in the loading area. A very efficient method for achieving the highest standards in temperature uniformity within furnaces is the use of pulse firing technology.

Nutec Bickley has drastically expanded its design capabilities by switching to “EPLAN Electric P8” software for electrical planning and engineering.

A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation was done to calculate the maximum heat transfer from 60 aluminum pieces that have a constant temperature of 200 °C.