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Previews
Welding, Cutting, Automation and Integration
Friction-Welding Systems
Lincoln Electric
Booth N11015, N11021, S951
Coldwater Machine Co. Booth S2158
Lincoln Electric, Cleveland, OH, presents ways to enhance welding, cutting, automa- tion and integration, and explore the company’s latest welders, racks, feeders and elec- trodes for construction, shipbuilding or pipeline welding. Attendees can meet with experts from the company’s Tennessee Rand and Wayne Trail teams for advanced fabrication tooling, part-holding manipulation and robotic or laser welding., and view the new PythonX II structural-steel prep station in action. This new technology saves time by replacing as many as nine common operations at once. Lincoln Electric also displays its Auto-Mate and System 5 robotic-welding cells. www.lincolnelectric.com
Coldwater Machine Co., Coldwater, OH, highlights its SpinMeld friction-welding systems that can join steels, aluminum, cast or sintered metals, magnesium,
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brass, carbon-fiber composites, ceram- ics with mixed metal connections, and dissimilar combinations of these materi- als. SpinMeld technology reportedly can reduce cycle times and defects when compared to traditional welding or joining techniques.
The SpinMeld systems are available as stand-alone vertical or horizontal machines that can be integrated into a workcell or an automated processing line. Each system is designed to fit the individual application with machine parameters such as rota- tional speeds, cycle times and forging forces based on the material composi- tion, part configuration and contact surface area of each joint.
SpinMeld systems rely on rotational fric- tion-welding principles and a direct-drive approach where a spinning workpiece, driven at a constant speed by an electric motor, is joined to a stationary one by rota- tional friction and externally applied force.
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