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At EWI, we've noticed that the global mindset toward inserting automation into the production line has shifted in a positive direction. Companies have realized that people really are the most important resource, and simply replacing them with robots is not the best approach. The greatest opportunities lie in the right mix of people and machines....

While spot weld performance has become easy to simulate in recent years, failure models for arc-welded sheet steel have never proved very reliable. Recently, EWI developed and tested a new approach to modeling failure of arc welds used in sheet-steel construction. The work is described in a paper by EWI associates Bill Mohr and Amin...

Directed energy deposition (DED), which leverages commercial robotic welding systems, is an agile and economical large-scale additive manufacturing (AM) process. DED AM is low risk since it leverages existing welding process equipment, consumables, procedures, and standards – which all have decades of proven performance. Using DED “digital” computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, component structures can be...