Find Like-New Quality at Used Prices
Recent economic weakness has translated into weaker-than-expected demand for chips and other high-tech widgets, as companies and consumers cut back capital expenditures and discretionary spending. Yet regardless of whether the economy charts a ‘V’ or ‘W’ course going forward, Moore’s law ensures that consumes will be getting more technology for less, and that the long-term aggregate demand for chips, solar panels, and other electronic components is likely to increase and increase again.
With greater demand for chips and other components on the horizon, whether commodities like SDRAM or one-of-a-kind processors of touch-screen commands, manufacturers both domestically and abroad – particularly in Asia – will need to increase capacity will keeping capital expenditure in-line with the lower margins encouraged by greater competition in the space. To accomplish this, companies should consider the benefit of increasing capacity with remanufactured orbital welding equipment and gas delivery systems: purchased from the right vendor, used equipment can be of like-new quality at a fraction of the price of being new or remanufactured through an OEM.
Considering the high level of quality demanded from equipment used in processes involving GTAW, simply purchasing depreciated equipment is not advisable. The stakes are simply too high when volatile gasses are involved, and the cost of scrapping a batch is too high to leave the safety and quality of equipment to chance. Buying orbital welding equipment that is re-manufactured as opposed to plain used (the latter is acceptable for a few applications) – whether weld heads, arc machines, or any other piece of the welding process – is the ideal way to save money on like-new equipment. The best welding equipment repair companies will put equipment through rigorous testing to meet the same specification as a new widget.
Take note that buying directly from the re-manufacturer will save buyers even more versus buying from a broker or secondary vendor. Vendors are used by repair companies and other vendors of OEMs to move more inventory faster. While you can often trust the quality of these re-manufactured machines, you are likely to get a better price and better service buying directly from the re-manufacturer, who will be happy to establish a direct relationship with the end user and do well to be competitive on price, superior on quality, and exceptional on service and guarantees.
The new technological era will require more components than there is current capacity to produce. Winning manufacturers will be those who can increase capacity at the lowest cost, without sacrificing safety or quality.