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When (and How) to Automate Sheet Metal Welding
Cobotic welding systems occupy the gap between fast and heavy industrial robots and manual welding. They also challenge the paradigm that welding automation is strictly a high-volume game.
How to Become a Multipass Welding Master
Multipass welds are often required in pipeline, ship, heavy-duty structural and pressure vessel construction. Selecting the proper abrasives and cleaning properly between each pass can help optimize results, saving the operation time and money.
Maximize Your Investment in a Welding Cobot
A collaborative robot (cobot) welds more efficiently, more consistently, and has a longer reach than its human counterparts. Here’s what to consider as you shop for a model that will boost your operation’s throughput and quality.
Videos Explain Welding Careers, In Digestible Segments
American Welding Society has introduced “AWS ARCademy,” a series designed to ‘make a positive impact on up-and-coming welders’ without overwhelming viewers with too much, too soon. New additions will continue to be added, giving students and other welding-wannabe’s a ‘crash course’ in welding basics.
Digitizing Your Welding Operation Could Be the First Step to Higher Overall Throughput
A factory has many moving parts and processes. Connecting welding data to up- and downstream processes makes identifying the source of manufacturing problems easier and uncovers true costs across the entire operation.
Flexible Robotic Welding System Reduces Nonvalue-Added Labor by 60%
U.S.-based ACS Industries had a lock on the market for standard attachments – buckets, forks, blades, etc. – for construction equipment, but needed to cost-effectively fabricate specialized implements for related markets. Six-axis robotic welding clinched $1.5 million in new business while lowering labor costs 60%.
ESPRIT CAM and Alma CAM Create Robot Additive DED Programming
The partnership has resulted in a validated workflow that provides end users with dedicated additive toolpath planning and programming, as well as robot programming, simulation, verification, collision detection, and code generation. Engineers can also use the technology to achieve the above functions for subtractive finishing.
Heavy-duty Helmet Shields Against Welding Fumes, Particulates
ESAB’s Savage A40 PAPR has a two-stage replaceable filtration cartridge that meets NIOSH certification and removes 99.9 percent of airborne particles. Providing comfort, performance and value, this helmet will be available at the end of January 2021.
Cool Factor Outside, High-Tech Welding Helmet Inside
Miller Electric’s Metal Matrix and Gear Box helmets have the graphical identity that resonate with welders while giving them the protection they need. The Digital Elite and Classic Series helmets have built-in technology that automatically activates for optimal optical safety.
Protect Welders’ Eyes with True-Color, Auto-Darkening Filters
Weldcote introduces high-definition technology for passive-style welding helmets designed to reduce eye fatigue. Offering a view area of 5.15 square inches, the filters come in four choices of shade.
Understanding Welding Slag in Flux-Cored Processes
Slag is more than a bothersome byproduct. It plays an important role in ensuring good weld quality, and the various slag systems also impact a wire’s welding characteristics.
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