The demand for a superior product at a lower cost is an ever growing demand. Engineers and scientists in organizations constantly researching to achieve this objective. About 70-80 percent of the components of industrial products, whether they are automotive or non-Automotive products are manufactured out of various types of steel due to its favourable cost to strength ratio. Steel properties can be changed to meet the manufacturing process standard to meet the design requirement by suitable heat treatment processes. Therefore in-depth knowledge of different Industrial heat treating processes is essential to find solutions to the problems quickly and effectively.

Keeping this in view, Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA) is organising 2 day online programme on "Advanced heat treatment processes"

This Program will be conducted by Mr. Ganapathi K N and Mr. S.C. Balawat..

Mr. Ganapathi K N, is the Director Training of IMTMA Technology Centre having 16 years of industrial and 14 years of academic experience. He is a post graduate in metal casting science and engineering from UVCE Bengaluru. Prior to working at IMTMA, Mr. Ganapathi has worked at various capacity in both Ferrous and nonferrous foundries. He has thorough understanding of all foundry operations and has experience of providing solutions to the foundry problems. He has also imparted specialized training on metal casting domain to more than 300 engineers across manufacturing companies in India. He has also taught metal casting topics to post graduate engineering students. At IMTMA, his role is to develop and introduce new programs for enhancing competitiveness of industry.

Mr. S.C. Balawat, a Metallurgical Engineering graduate from Karnataka Regional College, Surathkal (Now it is NITK Surathkal). He is gold medalist. He has over 40 years of active Industrial Experience in Metallurgy and manufacturing. He has worked in Motor industries Co. Bangalore (now BOSCH) manufacturers of Fuel Injection Pumps and Sparking plugs for 10 years, and for 17 years in Automotive Axles Limited Mysore, manufacturers of Rear Axles for LCV and HCVs. In addition, he has worked for 13 years in John Fowler India Limited, Bangalore, a firm specializing in post-harvest Agricultural machinery and primary Tobacco processing machineries. Post retirement in 2012 he is consulting in Manufacturing and Metallurgy for Forging and Foundry industries. He has been associated with IMTMA as faculty for Design Institute in the subject of Heat treatment and metallurgy. Mr. S.C .Balawat is a member of The Institute of Engineers (India) as well as the member of Indian Institute of Foundry. He is Council member of Shivamogga Chapter of IIF and a committee member of the Institution of Engineers (India), Mysore Local Centre.