Analysis and Applications Associates, Inc. ("AAA") has technical areas of expertise in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, the thermal sciences, computer systems and computer application programming. AAA engineers have developed and provided furnace control software to the steel and automotive industries. In 2006, AAA recognized the need for a tool that models furnace equipment from various manufacturers and developed AnnealMax®. AnnealMax® is a registered trademark and is a flexible, model-based, annealing control software that optimizes and controls the batch annealing process for single and four stack bases for variable hydrogen-nitrogen annealing atmospheres.
