Welding Engineer Lab
By Joel Armstong

Every welding and fabricating facility we visit has the
single goal of maximizing profits. Most of the time this is done by
meticulously reviewing costs of raw materials, vendor consolidation, and
overhead reduction but does this really show the desired results?
According to Miller Electric’s report, Improve
your Welding Profitability and Productivity:
Advice and Real World Examples for Manufacturers, up to
85% of the expenses in the welding industry comes from labor. Since this is the case, the best way to
reduce costs and maximize profits is to find ways to make your labor force more
efficient. This can be realized by minimizing operator downtime, increase
deposition rates, reduce clean up, eliminate welding, and decrease wasted
movements.
This year we’ve opened our own welding engineer lab to help
manufacturing and fabrication companies do just that. This lab is a cutting-edge facility where you
can learn how to increase welding deposition, make your welders more efficient,
reduce your gas spend, control your consumable costs, enhance the quality of
the welding environment, and/or compare multiple welding processes head to head
to determine which is the best for you.
Here’s a current list of equipment in our facility:
• ESAB ICE – SubArc
• Koike Shop Pro w/Hypertherm Powermax 125
• Scotchman Iron Worker
• Ercolina Pipe Bender
• Watts Pipe Beveler
• Fronius
- Transpocket, Accupocket, Transteel 2200, 2700, TPS 500i
• Miller Pipeworx, XMT, Continuum, fume
extraction equipment
• Tip Tig
• Victor Track torch
• Tig Brush
• Cribmaster
• Hydmech Saw
Posted on 04-05-2019

Joel Armstrong
Sales Engineer at Red Ball Oxygen Co. Inc.
Joel Armstrong is a Senior Certified Welding Inspector and has been in the welding industry since 1998. He can be contacted on LinkedIn.