Joint tracking systems increase the robustness of hybrid welding to joint placement, and are already used in some industrial applications. Vision-based tracking sensors can also relay details of joint fit-up in real time to the welding equipment, enabling adaptive control of the process. (W 77) (1)

Welding equipment = Equipamento de solda

For pressure equipment containing products that do not exhibit any degradation mechanisms, a Risk Based Inspection (RBI) assessment may determine that conditions are expected to be stable and benign for the foreseeable future. (W 111) (2)

Pressure equipment = Equipamentos de pressão

The company recently identified a need to improve the reproducibility of the production of a range of polypropylene tanks used to contain liquids in photographic processing equipment, and so called on the expertise of TWI to help. (Welding 474) (3)

Processing equipment = Equipamentos de processamento

(1) Adaptively controlled hybrid welding using a high brightness laser

C M Allen, G Shi and P A Hilton

Paper presented at International conference on power beam processing technologies (ICPBPT2010) Oct. 25-29, 2010 Beijing, China.

(2) Extending the internal examination intervals for pressure vessels using an RBI approach

Philippa Moore and John Wintle 

Paper presented at 2009 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Sustainable Energy for the Third Millennium, Prague, Czech Republic, 26-30 July 2009.

(3) Plastics joining at the speed of light

Case Study

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