Automated Welding Systems

popwelding was recently tasked with building a pipe welding system to improve throughput, quality and safety. As a global provider of efficient and integrated boiler room solutions for applications of any size, approached with the requirements to build a system that would reduce costs, increase safety, and improve quality in their operations.

By leveraging PC-based automation from in our latest pipe welding system popWelding was able to implement a pipe welding system that exceeded Cleaver-Brooks' requirements and helped to nearly triple the production efficiency. 

Other improvements accomplished:

• On average, reduced arc time by 63%

• Reduced weld clean-up time by 90%

• Reduced rework by 10%

• Decreased filler metal spend by 39%

Transition from Bolt-On to an Integrated Approach

The universal approach to building welding cells has been lagging behind. As the Principal Automation Engineer at popWelding, use the world of welding equipment can be summarized into two words: Bolt-On

With adding  or “bolting-on” more subsystems to the cell, Soon, your welding cell has seven control panels and needs a massive power bar to feed them all. Down the line, this approach becomes complicated as the maintenance for such a design is unsustainable, the technologies advance and the customers using the equipment demand more modular solutions. 

At popWelding, it was understood early on that in order to be a key differentiator in the marketplace, the transition to integrated approach was inevitable. VP of Product Development at popWelding. Over the last 17 years, we have expanded rapidly, and now we have hundreds of products as well as many custom, application-specific solutions. We can also tie together multiple pieces of equipment and provide complete turnkey plant design.