Automated Boring and Welding Machines Yield Higher Productivity

Automated Boring and Welding Machines Yield Higher Productivity

As equipment ages and undergoes heavy-lift stress, malleable metals can warp and become worn, leading to performance issues, loss of productivity, and costly damage. Simplifying welding and machining processes is a key component to reducing such costs. Machining and welding are the best ways to restore equipment to correct specifications, minimizing the need for additional capital investments. Automated portable tools like CLIMAX’s BW3000 Auto Bore Welder incorporate high-efficiency bore welding with their machining systems. This combination reduces weld time and improves productivity for welders and machinists.

Because the BW3000 Auto Bore Welder is able to interface and attach directly to CLIMAX boring bars, operators can perform a single setup for machining, welding, and post-machining of bores, flanges, and certain types of valve repairs. Automation of bore welding ensures high-quality performance and uniform precision with multiple modes such as continuous step welding, auto-skip mode, pie mode, and carriage return. These features allow operators to automatically correct heavily worn, non-concentric bores.

The BW3000 Auto Bore Welder is also capable of welding in bores that are too small to weld by hand. Run-time savings on large pieces are substantial: Bores that are too large to weld with good consistency in a timely manner can also be welded 75 percent faster than hand welding. In all cases, the welding deposit is uniform and easily machined when compared to hand welding.

Able to weld on any axis — horizontal, vertical or inverted — and available with the three special welding modes, the BW3000 Auto Bore Welder replaces traditional hand-welding and frees operators to focus on other tasks.

Saving time and energy is a great benefit of automated portable machinery, but safety is always paramount. Remote controls reduce the workers’ risk of exposure to harmful fumes, heat, and flashes while also eliminating tedious, repetitive motions that can lead to welder fatigue and injury.

CLIMAX | BORTECH offers other multi-application tools similar to the BW3000 Auto Bore Welder that are paving the way for safer, professional-grade maintenance repairs that also save time and money. Contact us today to learn more about automated portable bore welding and machining tools.

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