Welding shops for educational facilities, whether they are part of a high school technology program or a technical college, are significantly different from industrial welding operations. In the ...

Byron Bemis, senior research associate at Owens Corning, and his team were asked to design a new generation of components that could be made through laser welding. In fact, with this particular R&D ...

The American Welding Society (AWS) Foundation aims to address the declining number of welding professionals by supporting education and workforce development in the welding industry. The foundation is ...

The American Welding Society designated April as National Welding Month to elevate the welding industry and its available career paths. “This year’s theme, ‘Increase Your Impact,’ is a call to ...

The application of high-frequen-cy switch-mode power-supply (SMPS) technology in welding equipment has yielded many of the same benefits associated with SMPSs in other, nonindustrial designs. By ...

How ultrasonic metal welding meets the demand for increasingly advanced battery technologies. In-depth details of how the ultrasonic metal-welding technology works. How ultrasonic metal welding ...

A line of machines has been designed for the ultrasonic welding of thermoplastics. The HiQ line features proportional-valve technology, a position-measuring system, a high motion control drive, a ...

Thermoplastic composite (TPC) welding has been a key topic for CW since the March 2006 feature, “Thermoplastic composites gain leading edge on the A380”. That article described GKN Fokker’s (Hoogeveen ...