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Our 2021 CWI Seminar and Exam Dates are Now Available!
AWS
Companies worldwide rely on CWIs to ensure the highest quality workmanship, which means that earning this certification can increase your hireability and income potential. Find an upcoming seminar and exam in your area today!
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Software solutions for engineering to order
AWS Welding Digest
As technology has progressed, managing the many moving parts of the modern manufacturing landscape has become increasingly more challenging. Just as in other arenas of human endeavor, however, challenge has prompted innovation. Among the most important developments for manufacturers has been the development of strategies for the prompt fulfillment of customer orders. Alongside strategies for supply chain responsiveness and production floor efficiency, this is one of the key aspects of what is commonly known as “lean manufacturing.”
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High frequency welding method and its advantages and disadvantages
DC Velocity
High frequency welding mainly uses the skin effect and proximity effect of high frequency current to make the current highly concentrated on the side to be welded, so that it can be heated to the welding temperature (1130-1350°C) within one hundredth of a second , And then pressure welding under the action of the squeeze roller.
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Technology and teamwork: Norfolk naval shipyard's new welding and cladding system
Naval Sea Systems Command
Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) has continued to make improvements and progress toward a more modernized work environment. Recent modernization has come in the form of new equipment acquisition. One of these new pieces of equipment is for NNSY’s Pipe Shop (Code 960), the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Technologies (AMET) Welding and Cladding System, which will be used to manufacture joints, repair and extend the lifespan of large valves, and service various other shipboard components. The welding and cladding system is an automated process and does not require a welder onsite during its operation.
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Starting a small welding and fabrication business during COVID-19
The Fabricator
There’s never a perfect time to start a business. Developing a concept that fills a need is tough enough. Add in the startup costs associated with securing a building, acquiring necessary equipment, setting up infrastructure, and hiring staff. With all that in place, there still needs to be enough work coming in to keep the lights on and the doors open.
Small businesses are risky in even the best of times.
Now try starting a business with all those existing obstacles and add in a global pandemic. Sounds like a recipe for failure, right?
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Using portable laser vision to improve weld quality
AWS Welding Digest
Walt Bylsma, Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) at Crown Equipment Corp., New Bremen, Ohio, knows a thing or two about quality. Crown, a manufacturer of powered industrial lift trucks for 75 years, has become well known for the quality and longevity of its products. The company is always looking for the latest technologies that will enable it to continue to raise the bar in terms of the value it delivers to its customers.
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Promoted by Sunstone Welders
 The world is shrinking. All the electronics, batteries, and devices that keep us connected, powered, and healthy get smaller and smaller. How small? Today’s micro welders can deliver a 0.02mm spot weld with absolute precision. A tiny weld begs two questions: 1) How do you generate a weld that small? 2) Is there a business opportunity if you invest in micro welders? Those questions and more (like free stuff) are answered by the Micro Welding Application Tour, a seven-step discovery series. Click Here to Take the Tour!
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Essential considerations for laser welding
The Fabricator
In every industry, products are being designed, redesigned, or reevaluated for better materials or functionality. The final products are made from many components, and these components need to be joined in some way. One of these joining methods is laser welding.
Laser welding uses a high-intensity beam of light to create a molten weld pool to fuse materials together. It’s a non-contact process, has low heat input relative to other fusion processes, offers high processing speeds, and produces deep fusion zones in a single pass.
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Welding blamed for train car fire at CSX rail yard in south Louisville
WLKY-TV
Jefferson County firefighters have identified the cause of a blaze that broke out Tuesday at the CSX rail yard in south Louisville.
The fire was reported after 10:30 a.m. at the rail yard on Don Hutson Boulevard, according to a spokesperson with the Jefferson County Fire Department.
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Fortis Institute in Birmingham announces welding technology program
Fortis via PR News Wire
Fortis Institute in Birmingham is expanding its education offering with the addition of a Welding Technology Program. The program is open for enrollment and will welcome its first cohort in December 2020.
The Welding Technology Program will prepare students for entry-level positions as industrial welders, welding apprentices or check welders by proving them with a range of necessary skills, including industrial welding applications, craft skills, welding mathematics and print reading, and important career development techniques.
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- Simple, adaptable, consistent & repeatable.
- Eliminates edge beveling, dramatic reductions in wire & gas.
- High-energy welding at conventional GTAW heat inputs.
- Easily integrates with existing & new welding automation.
- Comprehensive weld reporting.
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Training women in construction - and the employers who hire them
Marketplace
Inside a yellow industrial building behind a Family Dollar store in Morgantown, West Virginia, 13 women were getting a lesson in the basics of plumbing. They all wore masks, sitting at their own tables, and everyone had two sections of plastic tubing — one for hot water, one for cold — to attach to a brass fitting.
“We’re going to start with the clinch clamp, which is this tool here,” said instructor Larry Hayes.
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Measure carbon with a handheld analyzer in steels and stainless, plus carbon equivalents for welds, pipelines with the SciAps handheld LIBS analyzer. In use globally by virtually every major oil and gas company. Don’t need carbon? Try the X-550 X-ray—the lightest, fastest, most precise X-ray gun for alloy analysis.
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US economy gains 245,000 jobs; unemployment rate drops to 6.7%
By Seth Sandronsky
U.S. employers added 245,000 nonfarm jobs in November after 638,000 new hires in October and 661,000 in September, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. November’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.7% from October’s 6.9% and September’s 7.9%. The November federal jobs report reflects an easing of COVID-19 restrictions to slow coronavirus transmission, which have been unsuccessful as local and state governments resume restraints on gatherings of businesses and public places. November’s national nonfarm jobless rate has decreased 8.0 percentage points from an April high. However, November’s rate is 3.2 percentage points higher than February’s figure.
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8 in 10 Canadian manufacturers face skills shortage: report
Toronto Star
Eighty percent of Canadian manufacturers surveyed in a new report are facing an immediate labor and skills shortage that was made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters survey of 563 companies across 19 sectors released Tuesday found the need for skilled laborers has been growing rapidly for years, but COVID-19 government relief, health concerns and family responsibilities are making the situation even more troublesome.
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Robotic arc welding can help you become more competitive by maximizing productivity, reducing waste and improving quality & safety all while being very cost-effective. Automating your welding process doesn’t have to be intimidating or costly. We are here to help you.
Visit Kawasaki Robotics to learn more.
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Optimizing your business' ability to pivot
By Indiana Lee
2020 has been a challenging year for everyone, businesses and individuals alike. What makes it so unusual is that the impact has been universal. Every nation around the world has been impacted by COVID-19 and the economic uncertainty that followed. What has become clear is that companies need to be more agile and flexible than ever. You never know what challenges will come, and a business’ ability to pivot can mean the difference between success and failure. How do you optimize your company’s ability to stay competitive in challenging situations? Here are some tips you can use.
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Future-proof your hardness testing with Equotip 540/550. Expanded functionalities with a powerful duo-core processor, it’s the one device for most applications.
- Best-in-class measurement: Various testing methods, high accuracy, custom conversions.
- Harsh inspection conditions: Rugged housing, long battery life, flexible connectivity.
- Ease-of-use and data traceability: Large touchscreen, intuitive UI, custom reporting.
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Minatare FFA receives $2,000 grant for TIG welder
Scottsbluff Star-Herald
The interest in the profession of welding is growing at Minatare Public Schools. So much so that Minatare FFA received a $2,000 grant in early November for a new TIG welder.
The grant was provided through Farm Credit Services of America’s (FCSAmerica) Working Here Fund.
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T. J. Snow offers classroom-style, one day Resistance Spot Welding seminars throughout the Eastern US. Check our upcoming class schedule for training opportunities near you.
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Minnesota West introduces new welding program at the Granite Falls campus
Granite Falls Advocate Tribune
Minnesota West has offered a welding program on the Jackson campus for many years as well as offered various welding training opportunities with Minnesota West Customized Training. However, the multi-campus college is excited to announce they now offer the Welding Certificate program on the Granite Falls campus in a one semester format. This is bringing new educational opportunities to the local rural community and creating a market of skilled trained trade workers in the region.
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