WeldGalaxy digital knowledge platform launched for welding industries

WeldGalaxy, an international and collaborative initiative to create a digital business-to-business online platform that connects global buyers with the European Union sellers of welding equipment and consumables, launched in October 2018. The consortium, led by TWI Ltd. as the coordinator, comprises 11 members including small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across Europe.

“Our goal is to create a highly visible and transparent digital B2B online platform that connects end users with equipment and consumables manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and technology and service providers,” said Geoff Melton of TWI Ltd., who is the coordinator of the project. As a key participant, TWI will provide its legacy data on welding for the WeldGalaxy database development, population, and data modeling.

The platform will underpin progress in endeavors to enhance the visibility of EU’s welding products, prototypes, and services to global users via digital marketing strategies, provide web-based services to boost EU market share and competitiveness, and enable plug-and-produce digital manufacturing of the right equipment to specified customer/end-user requirements and regulatory compliance.

“WeldGalaxy brings together a number of digital technologies, such as dynamic knowledge management, block chain, knowledge-based engineering, and chatbots,” said Melton. WeldGalaxy partners include TWI (U.K.), FundingBox Accelerator (Poland), Lulea Tekniska Universitet (Sweden), Ekon Modeling Software Systems Ltd. (Israel), Romsoft SRL (Romania), Flowphys AS (Norway), Technovative Solutions Ltd. (U.K.), Arteevo Technologies Ltd. (Israel), Aeonx AI (France), University of Leicester (U.K.), and University Politechnca de Madrid (Spain).