Welding Journal

Downtime is costly for metalworking and fabrication shop operations of all sizes. Whether it’s multiple millions of dollars per hour of unplanned downtime at a Tier 1 automotive facility or $500 per hour of scheduled maintenance downtime for removing spatter and other debris in a small fab shop, welding shops lose money when downtime strikes. Another common cause of welding robot downtime is having to move the robot into different positions and reprogram it when welding long parts.

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