ARC Specialties is a Houston-based welding automation and service supplier. When the firm was approached to design a plasma grooving and filling application for a fabricating a water turbine system, technicians there realized that an automated solution could potentially solve similar challenges in various other industrial applications. They set out to design, build, and test an automated system that would solve any groove and fill challenge where large amounts of material must be removed, and the space filled with anti-corrosive filler. Their primary example is detailed here, but the system itself can be applied to any groove and fill application.
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