- Analyze the technical information of the thermal and thermochemical treatment process, identifying the properties of the treatment, determining the phases, process operations, means used, the transformations they cause and the parameters to control. - Analyze the verification plan of a thermal and thermochemical treatment process, aimed at determining the dimensions and characteristics of the treated products, based on technical information. - Analyze the control plan of the characteristics and/or results of a thermal and thermochemical treatment process, through destructive and non-destructive tests, based on technical and regulatory information. - Analyze the properties that characterize light alloys and copper alloys, determine their applications and characteristics. - Select ferrous materials, identifying the main properties that they must meet and knowing their characteristics. - Carry out the preparation operations of the pieces to be treated, complying with the required technical specifications for cleaning and masking, quality standards and standards for the prevention of occupational and environmental risks. - Prepare the equipment and facilities, identifying the requirements indicated for the type of treatment, determining the start-up and implementation of the regulation and verification of the control parameters, complying with the Occupational and Environmental Risk Prevention standards. - Describe the different types of heat treatments without chemical modification (hardening, tempering, annealing, normalizing, etc.) and explain the variations in the properties and mechanical characteristics that occur in them. - Carry out different thermal treatments without chemical modification (hardening, tempering, annealing), achieving the variations in properties and mechanical characteristics specified, applying the specifications and standards for Occupational and Environmental Risk Prevention. - Describe the thermochemical treatments (cementation, nitriding, cyanidation, carbonitriding and sulfinization), recognize the variables of the process and determine the properties and mechanical characteristics according to requirements. - Carry out different thermochemical treatments, based on the plan of the piece, the applicable regulations, the technical specifications and the piece that must be treated, complying with the specifications and standards for Occupational Risk Prevention and the Environment. - Analyze the products subjected to heat treatments, evaluating the results in accordance with the technical documentation, regulations and established procedures, complying with the specifications and standards for Occupational Risk Prevention and the Environment. - Relate the auxiliary processes of thermal and surface treatments of metal parts (feeding of parts, tools, emptying or filling of tanks, evacuation of waste, among others) with the phases, techniques and means used of a manual or automatic nature. - Operate the pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, programmable organs, among others, that are involved in the handling, transportation and other operations of the thermal and surface treatment processes of metals, acting on their regulation and control elements, under conditions of personal safety and environmental protection. - List the regulations applicable to auxiliary systems in surface treatments, specifying them. - Adapt control programs for automatic parts feeding systems and auxiliary operations for thermal and surface treatments of metal parts (handling and cooling, fluid supply, among others). - Control the response of automated systems by checking, through the necessary measurements, the work trajectories and the synchronism of movements.
