Last week I hosted a tour of ARC Specialties for a group of high school teachers. The field trip was part of The Research Experience for High School Teachers in Design and Manufacturing Presented by the University of Houston* and Associate Professor Weihang Zhu. See:https://lnkd.in/egrmAgt
Over the last 15 plus years, John Stoll has brought together an array of speakers with immense knowledge in the welding industry. On March 23rd, he looks forward to showcasing his 2nd Virtual Welding Symposium with ARC Specialties.
Right now is a great time to consider starting a robotics company with the market offering a range of resources such as open-source code, a competent workforce, and more affordable components than ever before.
We posted the first in a series of online classes at https://lnkd.in/esusVNZ on plasma welding a few weeks ago. See: https://lnkd.in/ePzwc_v
It doesn’t matter how innovative your product is if your potential customers don’t know about it or understand why they should buy it.
On Wednesday, October 16th at 7:00 pm, Dan Allford lead a session at AWS Welding Houston.
Collaborative robots or cobots are designed to be safe to work near people.
This unique feature opens up new applications for robots. One of these areas is welding and plasma cutting. Using case studies, Dan discusses where cobots might be applied and where they should not.
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The first 25 companies to sign up for ARC Specialties Lunch and Learn on July 28th, 2016 will receive a complimentary sample packet of these Extended-Life Wire Guides / Contact Tips. To RSVP for the July 28th Lunch and Learn, please email lindsay@arcspecialties.com.
This month, members of the ARC Specialties Technical Services Division programmed a robotic arm with a plasma torch on the end for a timelapse photography project.
Unknown to a lot of small to medium scale businesses, it is possible to boost efficiency and lower emission levels at the same time, by utilizing specific combustion optimization techniques. A brief look at how the processes work and how concerned businesses can use that to their commercial advantage should help in better clarifying the claim.
The core idea behind combustion optimization is centered around making boiler operations more flexible. This flexibility is brought on through informed optimization techniques that involve the use of closed-loop biases for dynamically changing the fuel and air settings.
As the process needs to be continuous and dynamic, the optimization must be in sync with the nature and volume of the specific load after each change. Due to the dynamic and continuous nature of this optimization, efficiency is inevitably improved and CO emissions are lowered down to optimal levels.
Irrespective of one’s experience with segments such as power plant management or mining, only optimization experts can bring about the necessary optimization. It is not possible to improve an industrial energy and combustion system’s performance to its maximum capacity without the expertise of professionals who have themselves designed or modified the necessary optimization hardware, software, and implementation procedures, over the course of many years.
Contact https://lindbergprocess.com/ for help in optimizing the current equipment already in place. Businesses like this can also supply and install new, pre-optimized heating and combustion systems for maximum energy efficiency and boosted productivity, in addition to ensuring the least possible NOx emission.
It should be evident that continuous optimization is truly possible if the whole process is automated. How the optimization will be automated may differ in practice, as there are multiple methods. For example, a laser-powered tunable system could be used to monitor and then grid map the following, by placing the diode laser absorption spectroscopy machine near the furnace’s exit point.
Once the system is in place, the associated software handles everything else by dynamically tuning the air and fuel settings in accordance with the need of the moment. This reduces NOx emissions down to the lowest possible levels, cuts down on unnecessary energy consumption, and boosts the industrial combustion system’s overall performance.
As an alternative, there are also purely software-based solutions that do not require any additional hardware like mentioned above. These automated solutions derive all their necessary optimization data from connected, cloud-based data banks for industrial heating and combustion systems. Private resources are usually better maintained than open sources, so heavy operations depend on the more accurate data from paid services.
Carbon emissions are a huge environmental threat, but they are often indicative of a poorly optimized heating and combustion system as well. Automated optimization solutions come with improvement possibilities for both aspects.
