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, by Jim Ryan Eliminate Your Weld Cell Downtime
Since you clicked on this post, you probably have downtime headaches in your weld cells. Like all of our customers, you are extremely skeptical and...
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, by Steve Coulter Long Distance Edge Detection - in a harsh environment)
See this customer pic of the CUBE 40 in a heavy slag environment - it replaced a 40mm plastic cube sensor that was failing...
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, by Jim Ryan "Yeah, I Need to Automate My Welding Process": A Roundup
If it has become clear to you that you really should automate your welding process, you have lots of thinking to do before moving forward...
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, by Jim Ryan TIG Welding
A couple of articles on how to solve your TIG welding issues with new tech for TIG and, you guessed it, cobots.
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, by Steve Coulter M12 cable that can survive in weld cells
See this comparison of destructive testing - we connected a competitor's cable (right) to our SUPERGRADE cable (left) and ran several beads of high-spatter welds...
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, by Jim Ryan In Weld Cells Today - Edge Detection Under Extreme Conditions
Here are six photos of one of our ACTIVSTONE coated sensors, in an ACTIVSTONE coated mount, along with our ACTIVFLEX cable protection.The sensor detects the edge...
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, by Jim Ryan In Weld Cells Today - Our 40 mm Cube Mount, 30M Sensor, and Cable Protection
Here is a nice shot from above of our sensor, cube mount, and cable protection, holding up nicely under the duress of weld slag after...
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, by Jim Ryan In Weld Cells Today - Our Flat Pack Takes Abuse
As I mentioned, we are on tour of several factories this week, talking with several teams about their weld cells. Here are a couple of...
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, by Jim Ryan Miller on Optimizing Weld Cells: Secondary Circuit Wear
It's great to see good, in-depth articles on weld cells from vendors, such as the one by Tregaskiss on reducing downtime that we discusses a...
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, by Jim Ryan Cutting Weld Cell Costs
Here's a nice look at seven ways to cut weld cell costs. Add cost-saving peripherals, manage consumables, care for the MIG gun, etc. Two things...
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, by Jim Ryan The Difficulties of Aerospace Welding
Although it deals with human welders, Andrew Pfaller's article on the problems of aerospace welding is interesting. Pfaller mentions a few solutions, including technological ones...
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, by Jim Ryan Weld Cell Preventive Maintenance
Detailed tips on this from Eric Walton at Fabricating & Metalworking, who focuses on the MIG gun. At the same site Andrew Marchand chimes in...
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, by Jim Ryan Help Getting Started in Robotic Welding: Factory Automation Integrators
If you need to automate your process, help selecting an integrator is here and here.
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, by Jim Ryan Weld Cell Operators Need Training
Dan Davis lists the traits that a weld cell operator needs in order to succeed: a self-starter, who knows a little about computers, etc. But...
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, by Jim Ryan Robot Vision in Automated Welding
A nice blog post from Abagy on this, including illustrations and a video. Even though I spent years developing LIDAR machine vision software, I was...
