Welding Technology

  Keep metal fabrication shop workers safe by prioritizing quality                                         By focusing on quality, a company can minimize the risk of injury to shop floor employees.  Kerkez/iStock/Getty Images Plus One of the biggest oversights in the trades today is the lack of focus on quality and the far-reaching implications that poor quality has on so many aspects of business. Quality is often sacrificed for the sake of production, but that can come with a cost—especially to personal safety. The dictionary lists several definitions for quality, but the one most applicable to this discussion is “a degree of excellence.” In practical terms, it’s the ability of a product or service to perform its intended purpose for a reasonable interval of time. In fact, the International Standards Organization defines quality as “the totality of features and characteristics ...

  Daewoo Shipbuilding develops welding cobot EOUL, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) said Monday it has developed a collaborative robot, or cobot, in an effort to boost productivity. The world's fourth-largest shipbuilder by order backlog said the newly developed cobot has recently been put into service for the welding job of a vessel's plumbing. A cobot is a robot designed for direct human-robot interaction within a shared space, or where humans and robots collaborate in close proximity. DSME said unlike other industrial robots, the cobot can carry out welding work in close proximity with welders without a safety fence. To that end, DSME has obtained a certificate for a safe cobot workplace from the Korea Robot User Association, the shipyard said. DSME said the cobot is expected to improve productivity by reducing preparatory work by around 60 percent and making workers less tired, adding that it will ramp up ef...

100 women to receive welding training this year With an aim to train 100 females in the field of   welding , a social welfare foundation has opened a course in which its trainees get the right to take an international proficiency exam after completing 90 hours of   training . Gedik Education Foundation has started to provide training in welding, a male-dominant sector, to  women . While the number of female welders in the automotive and industrial sector in the country is extremely low, many female trainees graduated from welder courses. After receiving 90 hours of training, of which 15 hours is theory and 75 hours is practical, women take the internationally recognized proficiency exam and become ready to work as a welder. “My father, Halil Kaya Gedik, was a welding engineer and received this education in Germany. After returning to  Türkiye , he worked hard to develop the welding industry in our country,” stated Hülya Gedik, the chairman of Gedik Holding. Stating t...