Search for Establishing Nationally Integrated Optimum Arc Welding Process

Abstract

Arc welding process is an integral part towards building basic infrastructure of India. India consumes alarmingly large quantum of energy in arc welding process. Moreover, the quantum of energy need is steadily growing - making it virtually insensitive to both - growth in technology and process innovations. Globally, energy efficiency parameters, for example, of evolving arc welding process are not uniform as there is phase lag for modern technology and innovative processes to reach places. Welding professionals play a key role here. Optimization in arc welding process intends to reduce stress in facility by drawing minimum energy, maximizes productivity with requisite quality, simplifies process learning, reduces local and global impact on environmental parameters etc. It will be detailed in this article that understanding of different loss centers in energy flow helps evolve right technology to embrace right method or technique to simultaneously achieve energy and process efficiency, weld quality, and maintain balance in environment. Modern high-frequency power electronics equipments, as if, re-discover the process to generate better productivity with energy efficiency, reliability, compactness, better economics etc. They meet all the characteristic requirements of optimum weld gap dynamics. This article discusses a futuristic, yet very much real, scenario for India by interlinking all constituent elements of arc welding process. The aim Is to define compatibility among them. Compatibility issue intends to inherently reduce diversity of the process.