Adaptive laser beam shaping with a deformable mirror enables efficient energy and material usage in laser welding and ...

A fabricator that needs to weld thick plate in as few passes as possible often will turn to submerged arc welding (SAW), a legacy process that has dominated heavy fabrication for decades. Variations ...

Cobot laser welding at THG goes back several FABTECHs, during a dinner conversation between company representatives and a custom metal fabricator. The shop owner spoke with the reps about the emerging ...

Yongcui Mi has developed a new technology that enables real-time shaping and control of laser beams for laser welding and directed energy deposition using laser and wire. The innovation is based on ...

Laser processes with dynamic beam shaping create stable joints even in challenging material combinations. Recent applications demonstrate how to eliminate filler materials while improving quality, ...

Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...

OXFORD, Mass., Nov. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IPG Photonics Corporation, the leader in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, today announced the launch of LightWELD, a new handheld laser welding ...

In-space manufacturing is a big challenge, even with many of the same manufacturing methods being available as on the ground. These methods include rivets, bolts, but also welding, the latter of which ...

A high-power (120kV, 60kW) electron-beam welding system has been developed for the first time in the country, paving the way to the domestic production of a local vacuum** high-power electron-beam ...