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Automated welding is a staple of the modern production environment. Yet different processes – i.e., implementations – demand vastly different tools. Automobile manufacturers, for instance, often employ laser or plasma welders attached to robotic arms – file footage many of us are familiar with from recent economic news. Other applications require greater sophistication so that [...]

For SEMs and semiconductor manufacturers alike, fixed costs represent a far greater portion of per-unit production cost than materials than it does in other businesses. Clean-room environments and gas delivery systems are expensive to build and maintain while substrate, tubes, and crystals are relatively inexpensive on a per-unit basis. Thus, margin expansion for users of [...]

Since its introduction in aerospace manufacturing during the 1960′s, orbital welding has allowed for the advancement of efficiency in even the most complex and demanding manufacturing processes. In no manufacturing process is this as evident than in the process for manufacturing semiconductors and solid state components, wherein welds must be smaller and more precise than [...]