IPG Photonics and Reliant Technologies develop new integrated industrial scanning system
Feb 28, 2007IPG Photonics Corporation (www.ipgphotonics.com) and Reliant Technologies, Inc. (www.reliant-tech.com) have introduced a new industrial scanning system...
ESAB and PLSystems to commercialize hybrid laser welder
Feb 28, 2007ESAB Welding & Cutting Products (www.esabna.com) and PLSystems (www.plsystems.us) have agreed to work together to integrate PLSystems' patented closed-loop...
Go Non-Stop
Feb 28, 2007Time, as is often said, is money. A key to cost savings in most operations is the reduction of time spent involved in completing a job. The math is straightforward...
A way to reduce welding costs
Feb 28, 2007Gas Saver Systems being tested on gas cylinders connected to wire feeders. Welding shops and welding schools that use the GMAW (MIG) welding process could...
Gated Community
Feb 28, 2007, Richard MandelEach welded intersection of this gate was cleaned with a grinder or hand-filed. Deck-plate steps lead up to Scott Brunsdon's clean-design welded steel...
The world is coming at you; get ready
Feb 28, 2007, Bruce VernyiIt might be easy to think that a local welding shop is insulated from the effects of global trade and competition, but more and more there are warnings...
Welding Wire Purchasing and Handling
Feb 28, 2007By BRUCE MORRETT, product manager, solid wire division, Hobart Brothers Purchasing the right wire in job-appropriate quantities, along with proper storage,...
Annealing and quenching needed to weld CD4MCu stainless steel
Feb 28, 2007, Dave BartonWe are looking for compatible weld filler to repair CD4MCu stainless steel casting. The welding process we are using is GTAW. Can you offer any guidance?The...
Laser welding without burning
Jan 17, 2007, Richard MandelBy RICHARD MANDEL, senior editor Since the use of lasers in welding applications continues to expand in independent and hybrid-combination systems, it's...
A strategy for survival
Jan 17, 2007, Kimberley GillesBy KIMBERLEY GILLES, associate editor Individual strategies that welding shops develop and use to survive typically are as unique as the shop, but a review...
Diving out of retirement
Jan 17, 2007, Kimberley GillesBy KIMBERLEY GILLES, associate editor "I'm not just graduating divers and welders. I'm also trying to graduate guys that can grow with a company men that...
MIG welding with copper plated 1020
Jan 17, 2007I have a situation in which a 1020 steel plate has been MIG welded to an 8620 bushing that was carburized. The weld area of the bushing was coated with...
Building an oil boom
Jan 17, 2007, Richard MandelFort McMurray, Alberta, Canada Construction begins 300 miles to the south of Fort McMurray for many of the structures needed at the oil sands facilities...
Robots make the difference
Jan 17, 2007, Kimberley GillesBy MARY KAY MOREL, Motoman Inc., Edited by KIMBERLEY GILLES, associate editor Jeff Tuttle, president of Tru-Form Steel and Wire Inc. of Hartford City,...
New funding for welding research
Jan 17, 2007The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced in late December that it would provide an $870,000 grant to Delphi Corp. (www.delphi.com)...
Creating a micro-stir
Dec 7, 2006The Welding Institute (www.twi.co.uk/) has developed a new technique that uses its friction-stir welding technology to join aluminum alloy sheets that...
Understanding Creep Resistance
Dec 7, 2006With regard to stainless steel welding, what is creep resistance?Creep is the phenomenon of continuing plastic strain over long periods of time at loads...
Trumpf welds copper sheet with solid-state lasers
Dec 7, 2006Trumpf Inc. (www.us.trumpf.com) said its laser specialists have welded copper sheet metal to a depth of 0.020 in. (5 mm) in a one-time experimental setup....
Universal Cryo Gas, LLC North Carolina nitrogen plant enters service
Nov 6, 2006Universal Cryo Gas, LLC, (www.uigi.com) a supplier of on-site produced nitrogen, oxygen and argon, said in early October that its recently installed North...
Welding fume litigation update from GAWDA 2006
Nov 6, 2006Orlando, Fla. - Attorney Michael Degan provided a detailed update on welding fume litigation to the members of the Gases and Welding Distributors Association...
Selecting Gases For Hybrid Laser Welding
Nov 6, 2006By Richard Green, Product Manager, Concoa Edited by Richard Mandel, senior editor Now that hybrid laser welding - the combination of laser welding with...
Not out of the woods yet
Nov 6, 2006, Bruce VernyiAttorney Michael Degan gave a detailed update Oct. 16 on welding fume litigation at the 62nd annual Gases and Welding Distributors Association convention...
New directions sought in welding fume litigation
Nov 6, 2006Orlando, Fla. - While the thousands of welding fume injury lawsuits that are pending in courts across the nation primarily say that the neurological damage...
Direct Diode Laser Deposition with Strip Feeding
Oct 26, 2006By ALEXEI YELISTRATOV edited by BRUCE VERNYI, editor-in-chief Fig. 1 Experimental setup, processing area: 1 - Beam's heat spot on top of the molten pool....
Tier-1 Supplier Boosts Production After MIG Robot Retrofits
Oct 26, 2006By RICHARD MANDEL, senior editor By retrofitting this Fanuc robot with Auto-Axcess, DTR increased productivity 25 percent. Part of the increase occurred...
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