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The Welder - Laser Welding
Knowledge Transfer Partnership solves problem of optics contamination in laser-in-vacuum welding
- Jan 24, 2024
- News Release
Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE) and Cranfield University have solved the undesirable optics contamination phenomenon associated with laser-in-vacuum welding, paving the way for full-scale industrial exploitation of the technology.
- From The Fabricator
Herd adds laser welding to Winnipeg facility
- Nov 17, 2023
- News Release
Herd, a producer of trucking accessories including truck guards and grille guards, has integrated hand-held laser welding capabilities at its Winnipeg, Man., production facility.
IPG Photonics, Miller Electric join forces to develop hand-held laser welding systems
- Nov 7, 2023
- News Release
IPG Photonics Corp. and Miller Electric Mfg. LLC have announced a strategic partnership with a goal to promote laser systems for hand-held welding applications.
The craziest welding jobs
- By Josh Welton
- Sep 8, 2023
- Blog Post
Detroit welder Josh Welton looks back on some of his craziest welding jobs. He’s asking the welding community share stories of their wildest experiences as a welder.
IPG’s flexible laser sources weld EV batteries without spatter
- Jul 3, 2023
- Product Release
IPG has introduced new adjustable mode beam (AMB) fiber laser sources that enable high-precision processing for electric vehicle applications.
Hand-held laser welding’s time has come in metal fabrication
- By Bill Kallgren, John Bickley, and Laura Garcia
- Nov 21, 2022
- Article
Advancements in manual laser welding have made hand-held laser welding viable for metal fabrication and manufacturing businesses in ways that were not possible before.
- From The Fabricator
Scansonic offers LPH-O laser optics for sheet metal laser welding
- Nov 8, 2022
- Product Release
Scansonic offers the LPH-O series of laser optics, which uses the company’s modular scapacs system.
- From The Fabricator
Laser welding research aims for EV manufacturing solutions
- By Rob Colman
- Sep 12, 2022
- Article
Civan's laser speed and the ability to alter a laser welding beam on the fly are generating interest in electric vehicle fuel cell manufacturing research.
SMS group, Taylor-Winfield Technologies form global strategic alliance for laser welder
- May 13, 2022
- News Release
SMS group and Taylor-Winfield Technologies have announced a global strategic alliance for the supply, support, and service of SMS’ proprietary X-Roll heavy-gauge coil joining laser welder.
- From The Additive Report
EBM metal 3D printer introduced to North American market
- May 5, 2022
- Product Release
Powder-bed 3D printer is suited for serial production of aerospace and energy parts
- From The Fabricator
Still Building America: How one woman is influencing how we weld in space
- By Darla Welton and Josh Welton
- May 5, 2022
- Blog Post
In this episode of Still Building America, we speak with Mooresville, NC-based welder Amourette McDonagh, who has gone from building race cars for NASCAR to helping NASA improve welding processes in space through her business Black Moon Space Technology.
- From The Fabricator
LZH, LMB Automation partner to develop automated laser welding system for brass
- Apr 26, 2022
- News Release
The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) has partnered with LMB Automation GmbH, Iserlohn, to develop a laser-based manufacturing system for automated production of brass components.
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- May 18, 2022 01:00 PM Central Time
- Webcast
Accelerate your productivity on projects that require manual layouts. Customize laser projector positioning for each part to work optimally with either high contour 3D shapes or 2D flat parts. Virtek will explain how they can help create a more flexible manufacturing environment to meet new demands in the industrial market with easy-to-use our laser-guided assembly solution.
- From The Fabricator
Civan, TU Wien collaborate on dynamic beam laser welding simulation
- Mar 4, 2022
- News Release
Laser experts at the Technical University Wien (TU Wien) in Vienna have collaborated with Jerusalem-based Civan Lasers to simulate its disruptive dynamic beam laser technology.
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Novarc - A.I. In Welding: The Beginning of a New Era
- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 2 PM ET
- Webcast
In this webinar, Soroush Karimzadeh, CEO & Co-Founder of Novarc Technologies shows you how NovEye™, Novarc’s AI-powered weld monitoring and control software further improves pipe welding quality and productivity by increasing the autonomy of their welding cobot.
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