A TIME OF CHANGE FOR WELDING TECHNOLOGY IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

The automotive industry has always been particularly open to innovation. Manufacturers and suppliers are often in the vanguard when it comes to inte...

COMPLEX FORMS - QUICK WELD SEAMS

Even though electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular in the automotive industry, analysts predict that by 2025, more than two thirds of a...

GETTING TO THE HEART OF PRECISION

With Cycle Step, Fronius has developed a new variant for the “cold” welding process CMT (Cold Metal Transfer). The special feature is that users...

COMPLEMENTING, NOT REPLACING

Developments in robotics are rapidly forging ahead. The interplay between man and machine is no longer a vision of the future, but has instead bec...

PEOPLE ARE STILL IN DEMAND WHEREVER FLEXIBILITY IS REQUIRED

The digitization and networking of industrial production is changing processes and business models from the ground up. The automotive industry is a ...

PRICE PRESSURE AS HARD AS STEEL

Not only is steel one of the oldest materials, it is also one of the most cost-effective. It is available inlarge quantities and a range of vari...

SAFETY IS PARAMOUNT

Large turquoise buses stop every few minutes at a bus stop in Shenzhen, southern China. You might expect these buses to be nois...

VOLKSWAGEN ON THE OUTSIDE, FRONIUS ON THE INSIDE

Alongside brazing, bonding, and riveting, welding is one of the most important joining processes in vehicle workshops. A vehicle body is made up of...

HIGH PERFORMANCE FOR E-MOBILITY

The automotive industry is increasingly relying on electric drives. The consequences for production are enormous: the components needed for vehicles w...

CONSISTENT QUALITY, SPOT AFTER SPOT

At the end of the 19th century, copper electrodes began to be used for resistance spot welding for the first time. It did not take long for thi...

A GLOBAL NETWORK OF COMPETENT AND RELIABLE PARTNERS

In comparison to selling to private customers, the procurement process for commercial customers is generally much more formal, syst...

BUILDING ON THE SUCCESS OF A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP

Experts predict that approximately 28 million new cars will be registered in China this year, including an increasing number of electric and hybrid...

ELECTRIC SPORTS CAR QIANTU K50

The series version of the high-tech electric sports car was launched on the Chinese market in August 2018. A high-tech vehicle calls for high-tech...

TROUBLESHOOTING BETWEEN THE LINES

In an age of fully digitized welding systems, the software is at least as important for keeping things running smoothly as the actual hardware com...

A CHALLENGE SHARED IS A CHALLENGE SOLVED

In 2017, Fronius Perfect Welding asked users to share their unresolved welding challenges. At the end of November last year, the companyinvited the...

VOICE-CONTROLLED WELDING SYSTEMS

With both hands on the welding torch and eyes on the arc, manual welding is a task that requires a high level of technical skill and complete c...

READY FOR EMERGENCIES

Trumer protective systems can be found in hazardous areas all over the world, helping to ensure that events such as rockfalls and mudslides cause ...

CREATING ORDER

A successful design adds value to a product, since intuitive operation is only possible if the function and design are considered as a whole. ...

BIG DATA IN WELDING TECHNOLOGY:

Experts agree: Big data has the potential to fundamentally change society, politics, and the economy as electricity and the internet have in the pa...

HOW DATA ANALYSIS

In the age of big data, data processing and analysis are also gaining ground in the welding technology sector. Modern welding systems record differ...

SMART DATA FOR BETTER DECISIONS

Digitization is not only advancing in our private lives. Industrial manufacturers are also experiencing the march of the machines. However, among the...

FRONIUS APPS:

WeldConnect: The App for Tracking Down a Solution. The Fronius app WeldConnect helps users to determine the appropriate welding parameters for their...

CALIBRATING WELDING SYSTEMS:

Maintaining quality standards for welding systems in the long term requires regular calibration. For companies working with welding technology, it is...

THE GREAT BALANCING ACT OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Never before have businesses had to focus so much on the needs of the individual user as in the age of digitization. Fronius Perfect Welding is ...

ALL AT SEA:

Fronius Welding Challenge Winner: Duplex steel is a two-phase structure, in which steel containing ferrite formers (such as chrome, titanium or alu...

HARD SHELL, SOFT CORE:

Fronius Welding Challenge Winner: Overlay welding is frequently used to make parts such as pipe and boring heads last longer in service. As part o...

SIZE MATTERS

Robotersysteme AG is based in Wiener Neudorf, Austria, and specializes in turn-key automated welding solutions for sectors including construction and ...

STRAIGHTFORWARD , ROBUST, COST-EFFECTIVE:

Whether it’s in the construction, mechanical engineering, or automotive supply industry, steel is used whenever possible. It’s a material that can ...

BLOWN AWAY

Justin ‘The Fabricator’ Merrill , an engineer, fabricator and media personality, has been producing informative online videos for over three years....

AWARD-WINNING ALLROUNDER

TransSteel 2200 is the Best Product of the year. A 430 HP high-performance racing car needs stability on the road. To achieve this, more than 300...

GETTING STRAIGHT TO THE POINT

Whether in the automotive and supplier industry or in the aerospace industry, if you want to join aluminum sheets, there is no getting away from ...

NEED MORE SPEED

Aumayr GmbH, based in Steyregg, Austria, specializes in custom-made ventilation pipe systems. With its high-quality products, the family-run company ha...

THE FINE ART OF SHIPBUILDING

Ferries, yachts, cargo ships, giant cruise liners: Anything that transports goods or people by sea can be found in the dockyards of shipbuilders su...

THE SUPERHERO OF ALL WELDING PROCESSES

The tungsten inert gas (TIG ) welding process is always used when there are stringent requirements for the appearance and quality of the weld seam...

WELL COOLED AT MAXIMUM POWER

High-quality weld seams are a key criterion for many users of TIG welding processes. But in production environments which are constantly being strea...

COMPLEX PHYSICS, EASE OF OPERATION

TIG welding guarantees the weld seam quality required in pipeline construction, the food industry, or vehicle manufacturing. Aluminum is a material o...

THE CONSTANT NEED FOR INNOVATION

Thanks to his dedication, the USSR was one of the leading countries in the field of arc welding in the second half of the twentieth century and...

THE BEAUTY OF WELDING

Dmitry Kuschniruk discovered his love for artistic welding while working at the Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev, Ukraine. ...

THE POWER OF FUJI

Cherry blossoms, the snow-capped Mount Fuji, manga, and sushi. These are the first things that come to mind when most people think of Japan. Howev...

FROM MINNESOTA TO TEXAS

Fronius Perfect Welding has been present in Portage in the USA with a subsidiary since 2002. With its Distribution & Partner Program, the company ...

CUSTOMIZED MOBILE

Everyone wants to "live the dream", but David Blackburn is building it. By day he’s a machinist of fifteen years, but in the evenings and on we...

HELPS FIREFIGHTERS SAVE THE DAY

The US-based family business Spencer Manufacturing in South Haven, Michigan, has been building custom fire trucks for almost 30 years. Welding two a...

“DIGITIZATION CAN BECOME THE DRIVINGFORCE BEHIND A MORE HUMANE APPROACH”

When Fronius exhibited at SCHWEI SSEN & SCHNEIDEN – one of the world’s leading trade fairs – in Düsseldorf back in 2017, its stand design was...

SUSTAINABLE WELDING: WHAT ARE THE CRUCIAL FACTORS?

Acting sustainably and taking a sensible approach to the use of resources and energy is becoming increasingly important in industrial production – ...

FAST + RELIABLE

The demands placed on welding technology are particularly high in the automotive industry: end customers expect a premium seam quality and a high s...

ON THE PATH TO THE PERFECT SEAM

In order to achieve consistently high seam quality over long distances, many metal-processing companies use welding carriages. These automated tools e...

PROTECTED & PRESERVED

Overlay welding, or cladding, is an efficient and costeffective welding process for repairing and protecting parts against abrasion and corrosion by ...

RENTING POWER SOURCES INSTEAD OF BUYING

Imagine the following scenario: Your metalwork company is awarded a contract to produce a large steel construction within a tight deadline. Excited...

SMART, NETWORKED AND DIGITAL

Digitisation, automation and networking are the dominant trend in industrial production, a development that is usually referred to by the buzzword “...

POWER SOURCE MANUFACTURERS ARE

The global march of digitisation and interconnectivity – known as “Industry 4.0” – is making production processes faster, more transparent and mo...

PIONEERS

Many people see it as a revolution, but for Fronius it is simply a living reality: digitisation. As long ago as 1997, the company developed the world...

ROBOTIC WELDING

For a number of years now the international steel producer and automotive industry supplier voestalpine, based in Linz, Austria, has been successfull...

DIGITAL INTERCONNECTIVITY:

Collecting, saving and evaluating data plays a leading role in digitised and networked production. To be able to design production processes more qu...

SUCCESSFULLY LEVERAGING

PALFINGER, a leading international manufacturer of truck cranes based in Salzburg, uses the WeldCube documentation and data analysis system in its we...

EVERYTHING IS WELL IN HAND

Expert service plays an important part in welding technology. A well-planned service package ensures that customers can depend on being able to make...

TPS/i

Humans have been using welding to join metals and other materials for thousands of years. The processes and technologies used have changed rapidly ...

WELDING

The crane boom of the enormous “ScorpionKing” logging machine from Finnish manufacturer Ponsse based in Vieremä can reach up to 11 metres into t...

HANDY ALL-ROUNDERS

Welding on construction sites or in other outdoor locations can quickly become a challenge: after all, the technology needs to continue functioning ...

TRANSSTEEL:

Fronius has also just recently launched the TransSteel 2200. In the following interview Peter Fronius, Head of Strategic Product Management, summarise...

TIG WELDING:

Tungsten inert gas welding, or TIG welding for short, was developed back in the 1940s. An arc burns between a non‑melting tungsten electrode and ...

AUTOMATICALLY PRODUCING THE PERFECT WELD SEAM

From the automotive and component supply industry to machine and plant construction, and also the oil and gas industry: mechanised welding processes...

LASERHYBRID WELDING:

TRUMPF was the first mechanical engineering company to use Fronius's LaserHybrid welding process to successfully join sheet metals ranging from eight...

LEARNING TO WELD

The Fohnsdorf Training Centre in Styria, Austria, trains welders using virtual training. The Virtual Welding simulator from Fronius enables one-on-one...

TURNING PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

The well-known airbrush artist Marcus Pfeil has designed an individual range of welding helmets for Fronius. We watched the master at work as he c...

IN FUTURE, WELDING HELMETS

Fronius is developing VizorConnect together with OPTREL AG , a supplier of active anti-glare products. The welding helmet communicates with the power...