Orbital Welding
Benefits of Orbital Welding
- It’s Clean: It’s important to keep contaminants away from metal tubing during the welding process since impurities trapped inside could ruin an entire process, resulting in a significant waste of time and money. Orbital Welding is typically performed in a cleanroom setting where tubes and fittings can be welded in a high-purity, contaminant-free environment. The majority of our orbital welding is performed in class 100 cleanroom environment.
- It’s Efficient: Because the welds created are consistent and clean, the entire welding process becomes more efficient. Computerized orbital welding can make the process even more efficient, as the whole process can be scheduled ahead of time and documented. This decreases production time and overall costs.
- It’s More Productive: Orbital welding is a much more productive use of labor, as the machinery is doing the majority of the work. Though there are upfront costs to acquire the appropriate equipment, it cuts down on labor requirements and lead time in the long run.
- It Produces Better-Quality Welds: While skilled manual welders can certainly create high-quality welds for specific purposes, an orbital weld performed using the right equipment and settings will always result in a better-quality weld. This is crucial in applications within the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries where there are strict requirements to be met.
- It Produces Consistent Welds: While manual welds performed by a skilled technician can be accurate, orbital welding will always produce more consistent welds. This is due to the ability to set the orbital welding equipment to a specific program, allowing the system to repeat the exact same welds over and over again without error or defects.
- It Doesn’t Require Certification: With a considerable shortage of certified welders in the field today, it can be difficult to find manual welders with the necessary certifications and expertise to perform manual welding operations. Orbital welding, however, doesn’t require certification since the equipment can be operated by a skilled technician trained in welding.
- It Solves Unique Problems: Orbital Welding Components is great but for unique manufacturing situations, such as in cases where it is not feasible or practical to rotate a piece of tubing or pipe to be welded, orbital welding is the perfect solution. It may also be used in cases where welding must be performed in a tight space that wouldn’t be possible with manual welding.
- It Shortens Lead Time for Large Projects: When multiple identical welds are being performed via a machine, you can test a sample weld, rather than having to test every single weld. Since the machine is repeating the weld automatically, the integrity of the sample weld should hold true for all of the welds thereafter.
