Touring a Automated Welding Shop!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2024
- Robotic welders and other automated fabrication systems are here and I can only imagine they will keep getting better! Today I tour VSM technology’s shop and get a glimpse of the future of the welding industry. To say Rob and his team are smart is a understatement. The technology in this shop I have only seen at fab tech but never used in a real world welding shop. The equipment they have has mind blowing capabilities, such as a self fed laser cutting table!
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Great vid I’m am impressed On how openly you get people to talk to you when your body wears out you can definitely go into interviewing
I operated a robotic welder at my old job every now and then when I wasnt in my booth manually welding, they are fun but the limits in capabilities are very clear and mig welders dont need to worry about these replacing us. All these are is for taking the bulk of the workload off of humans so we can focus on complex welds and building the large structures. Essentially the robots are master level welding for entry level welds, they have limited manueverability but the consistency and quality of the welds (in the hands of a competent operator) are outstanding for what it is. Id love to have a little robot welder in my shop and have a laborer or even a shop hand run it to make extra money that can be put into my work. super cool video man and that guy you're talking with seems solid af
Completely agree. Seeing as for every 5 welders that retire, there are only 2 welders entering the workforce, this isn't a concern.
I operate a Valk weld robot roughly 65 hours a week. And while it takes the brunt of the workload off welders, it only got rid of one position (out of 3) when it was installed.
No matter how nice the welds are... You still need a welder to tack parts, load, and operate it. And another welder in the output end to handle welds in certain areas that the robot can't reach.
So yeah. They're great. And learning to operate them was definitely advantageous as it earned me more money and more hours... We still have just as many welders in the shop. They just had their time freed up for more important and detailed tasks.
Rob is definitely a down to earth, realistic business owner. I’d dare to say a innovator
@@MeltinMetalAnthony im looking at this business model as a young man in the trades like yourself and all I see is $$$$ everywhere especially being familiar with the equipment lol
No robot will ever match my apathy.
Pretty cool guy giving a tour and explaining everything.
Ya it was a good time
That's all awesome and I totally get it, but I can't imagine how soul crushing it must be to be the guy who tacks together parts for the machine to weld up
felt, last job hired as a welder for multi processes, but was running the robot/ grinding due to no booths being open.
Super cool processes and automation in that shop! Thanks Anthony for such an interesting look at advanced metal working!
Really insightive shop tour.
Cracking video only a matter of time until Anthony hits 100,000 subs definitely well deserved
Think about this
those guys could "print" pictures on sheet or plate and you could make some very special gates or doors for clients.
Super cool!
Thank you for the video man 👍
Thanks for watching!
Very cool video it’s all very interesting with the robots and bits but can’t beat a good old fashion person 👍
I have been un the Trumpf factory in Linz Austria many years ago. Trains drive in one end of the building to take press breaks out. World class facility that makes world class machines! I was there to automate a press break machine and robot combo that would pick up pre cut sheet metal and automatically bend it into custom shapes. That factory makes press breaks that can bend steel for ships (2000 ton breaks if I remember right).
That’s awesome, I would love to see that in action
It was closed to Americans at the time but I was called in secretly to do some work. When they found out I was an American the staff threatened to have me arrested/deported. When they saw my work they let me stay. Lol
PS love your shop. Doing it right in the USA!
shout out from East Cost Canada .. thanks for the video
Thanks for watching!
For a production setting and application this totally makes sense but as far as maneuverability No but it is still a lucrative business model and pretty good that he has other shop welders.
They took our jobs!!😂
living the dream sir! that's a fantastic shop. trying to build one myself now to do similar stuff. but like caveman style compared to that 😂
Shit where is it. I’d go weld for them
I can hear the gears grinding from AZ... It's only money! YOLO
Is this video sponsored by dots pretzels? 😂
I wish !
I'm still trying to talk my boss into buying a robot so I don't have to do my job anymore and I can do something less unpleasant
This kind of makes me sad because I came from the shop world first where did the US go wrong without trades we're screwed without metal working we are screwed and this goes especially for fabrication I live in the southwestern corner of Ohio and you can't go anywhere without finding welding job that doesn't require hand work probably more handwork than there is machine work
It's pulsed, components to be welded have to be perfect and exact.
It also has to make sense for mass production, I was at a place years ago that threatened us with robots replacing us and I explained that their tolerances would never get tight enough for that to work with their stamped and formed products. We'd rarely get components that were no fuss, let alone for them to line up on a job order.
They spent millions of dollars trying to automate stuff, and they just killed their production and customer base doing it, all because us lowly welders had more sense than the board members.
That said, I never want to do that production crap again with making parts that are all the same for days and weeks.
I'd rather be flipping burgers.
Be nice to afford and employ those toys.
American like to talk talk and talk to death. instead of clip of the process in action.
guy keeps repeating he can't find employees. I'd love to know how much he's paying. Good companies can almost always find and hold down employees unless they create bad conditions. if you're hiring for very low skill jobs, looking for a guy to unload parts from a machine and paying him an unskilled wage, then it's no wonder people will move on. what's the minimum salary to own a house in that area? my guess would be $40/hr at a bare minimum. that's a "livable wage". paying less than that is basically asking someone to agree to be a loser in life for decades and die broke at 80 on a walmart floor.
I just graduated welding school and I'm one week into my first welding job at a pretty big structural fabrication shop. The hours are 7-5:30 M-F and 7-12 Saturday. They normally start people out at 18/hr for entry level, but pay in the low 20s for more experience. So yeah, it's not much considering inflation.
As a guy who owned a company in the past, it’s incredibly hard to find employees. Most aren’t there for the work, only the pay check. I doubt the work atmosphere is bad, Rob is super cool and if you watched to the end he said he would pay almost any number a guy who truly had the skills and interest
@@MeltinMetalAnthonyI was paid 22$/hr and was the highest paid in the shop with no benefits. In my area I was the only guy around that could weld stainless so they made me stainless lead. They tried over and over again to get other people to weld it and it failed. I lost my job after writing someone up and he started a circle of people following me around the shop to photograph me any time they saw me not working and they refused to work with me. Lost my job because these dudes that wouldnt even land welds in the joint half the time didnt like me.
I remember on some jobs the shop got $30k dollars while I got 200$ at the end from the same job, fit up and weld out. I hate this trade and wish I never got into it. I'm having to move just to get a decent job and the whole reason I did this to begin with was so I could make enough to stay around my family.
I'm going to make this work and I'm buying machinery for my own business and I'm going through the education to go multi trade. I love everything around welding but welding as a standalone trade sucks ass and anyone would be better off going to med school.
The positives of a Robot Welder is it lets Manual Welders do the jobs that are not so repetitive.
NO worse job as a Welder than Welding the same thing everyday ???
Not only is it mind numbing it gives you no opportunities to improve your skills.
I don't agree machines replacing workers.
Blessings.
Eventually they will in a production setting
@@MeltinMetalAnthony Thanks my friend, you are a great worker. Take care.
Blessings from the Venezuela.
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