Saturday, October 4, 2008

What's new in Welding?

I have been in welding engineering for a while but also have been out of it for the last few years. We know there are new developments all the time in Arc Weldiing, Spot Welding and Laser Welding.

Specifically, Laser Welding has been a very hot field (pardon the pun) with a lot of new activities such as Diode Lasers, Fiber Lasers and Laser/MIG hybrids etc. Diode lasers were very interesting but the power density was not quite there to handle welding. Fiber lasers were very attractive due to small package but again the power density was still a question.

Check out these laser sites for more information.
Trumpf.com
Rofin Sinar
Fraunhofer USA

Post your comments if you are using lasers in welding. We would like to know.

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