Across America, manufacturers and fabrication shops are using many weapons to combat the shortage of highly skilled labor. That’s where automated tube fabrication cells can help in a big way.

Novarc Technologies’ Spool Welding Robot uses the company’s NovEye control system to inspect welds in real time and learn from that observation how to perform successful welds on its own.

Fear not. Robots are here to help metal fabricators grow their businesses, not take jobs from humans.

At the Tube 2022 show in Düsseldorf, Germany, tube and pipe manufacturing companies showcased new technologies and talked about battling the market forces aligned against them.

Integrating a tube fabrication workcell successfully is a matter of finding the right opportunities and understanding the scope of the manufacturing investment.

Shops can use these eight tips to help optimize the cost of welding, including consumable, gun, and equipment performance. The costs for welding can be cut!

Attendees at the FABTECH 2021 expressed a new sense of urgency. Metal fabricators and manufacturers need capacity, and shops need it now. Advancing automation capabilities seems to be best step forward.

Finding and retaining a skilled workforce was constricting a leading manufacturer of aftermarket exhaust systems and direct-fit catalytic converters' growth. Davico installed an ABB/Scalable Robotics robotic arc welding system.

Process variability in manufacturing is an issue that automation cannot solve on its own, especially when the parts in an automated system aren’t consistent.

Adding a welding reamer to robotic welding operations can help fabricators improve part quality, productivity, and operator safety.