Tag: welding

KEMPER GmbH is intensifying its activities in the OEM sector. As the new Head of Sales OEM, Carsten Trentau is now responsible for the Automation sector at the extraction technology specialist from Germany.

Mercedes-Benz also relies on resistance welding technology from NIMAK at its new plant in Russia. NIMAK supplies manual welding guns for the required spot welds.

A new recommended practice (RP) to standardize operator requirements for welding and inspection of subsea equipment, has been published by DNV GL.

Galling is a form of wear that is caused by metal surfaces in gliding contact with one other, such as the potentially hundreds of stainless steel bolts and fasteners holding production equipment and its moving parts together. With potentially disastrous effects resulting from galled fasteners seizing or even being subject to a fatigue breakage, industry players are advised to counter this threat.

Solution treatment refers to a heat treatment process in which the alloy is heated to a high temperature single-phase zone to maintain the temperature, and the excess phase is sufficiently dissolved in the solid solution and then rapidly cooled to obtain a supersaturated solid solution.

Xiris Automation Inc. announced the release of its revolutionary next-generation weld camera, the XVC-700. The lightweight, slimline XVC-700 camera is specifically designed for integration with welding automation in spaces too small for traditional welding cameras.

The new Coherent HighLightTM FL-ARM with Fiber-Fiber-Switch is a high-power (2 8 kW), dual fiber output laser that can sequentially power two separate workstations or processes.

Xiris Automation announced that Weld Australia has been appointed as its exclusive Distributor of Xiris Weld Camera products for Australia.

The marine industry in general has been slow to embrace the 3D printing concept. The use of continuous liquid metal deposition under computer numerical control has created opportunities to produce complex shapes such as forgings and castings whilst avoiding the need for expensive tooling and the time delays in fabricating moulds. Notwithstanding this slow start, development work at Delft Technical University in 2017 has led to the production of the world’s first metal deposited marine propeller.

Starting in the 1990s and accelerating ever since the automobile industry has been defined by a revolution in innovation. From the internal combustion engine to the complete electric vehicle and the in-between hybrid, power train technologies are in a state of constant evolution. But innovation doesn’t stop with the engine.