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21 Jun 2022

New Product: ESAB Launches InduSuite for Robotic, Welding and Cutting Ops

Image courtesy ESAB

ESAB recently launched InduSuite, a brand-agnostic portfolio of software applications designed to revolutionize workflow, quality, and business performance, to help fabricators and manufacturers improve operational efficiency. According to ESAB, InduSuite offers three key benefits: simplicity for accessing data and documents with an easy-to-use interface; real-time insight into performance, traceability and workforce accountability; and an unprecedented level of control over metalā€¦

08 Mar 2022

ESAB Innovation Aims to Make Shipyard Welding More Efficient, Accurate

The ESAB Heavy Industrial Product line is suited for the challenges inherent in the shipbuilding environment. Photo courtesy ESAB

Jeff Chittim, ESABā€™s North American Senior Product Manager for Heavy Industrial Products, discusses how WeldCloud online applications and the ESAB Heavy Industrial Product Line are a powerful tandem to help shipyards improve weld quality and efficiency.While automation has gone a long way in making shipyards more efficient, today shipbuilding remains a hands-on endeavor, with a dearth of ā€˜welders and fittersā€™ being a common lament.Technology companies such as ESAB, a global supplier of welding and cutting solutions across industriesā€¦

29 Oct 2021

Navantia Taps Pemamek for Shipbuilding Production Lines

Image courtesy Pemamek

Navantia placed an order for the automated PEMA Panel Lines, Profile Processing Lines and Sub-Block Production Lines, designed to ensure that  Navantia Shipyards will have the latest laser-hybrid-based welding and robotic technology fully integrated to create the Shipyard 4.0 working environment. The agreement between Navantia and Pemamek -- which entails several phased deliveries during the next two years -- includes an advanced automated and robotized PEMA Panel line, PEMA Profile Processing Line, and PEMA Sub-Block Production Line for Navantiaā€™syards in Spain.

07 Oct 2021

Tech File: Automated Welding Solutions

(Photo: Pemamek)

Pemamek has provided automated welding solutions to the shipbuilding industry for more than 25 years. Modular lines consisting of everything from simple robotic welding systems to entirely integrated plate preparation, joining and finishing operations can be built according to customer needs. But, according to Michael Bell, Sales Director for Pemamek LLC, the North American subsidiary of Finland-based Pemamek Oy, their systems are customizable for all types of vessels ranging from sub birthing bargesā€¦