But the way Lincoln Electric does additive production makes use of its expertise. Essentially, the company is welding layers of metal onto itself, creating imagined shapes, explained the president of Lincoln Electric's global automation .
It may seem easy, but it's complex to perfectly lay those welds and ensure the layers are bonding right. Lincoln Electric already makes the products needed for the process: the wire consumable, the controlling software and the automated welding machines. There's really no better company today to do it than a company that's an expert in welding,
The company has been working in large-scale metal additive production for five years, but it was more as a research-and-development functioning, Whitehead explained Its newly established metal additive production service business will make formal Lincoln Electric's role in the space. The formal launch will be in mid-2019.
Now, the company is in the process of building out a new additive production center at 26250 Bluestone Blvd. in Euclid, by the company's head office. Lincoln has a long-term lease for the approximately 75,000-square-foot building,
The buildout started at the end of 2018. About a third of the building is now finished with office space and some existing robotic weld cells.
It may seem easy, but it's complex to perfectly lay those welds and ensure the layers are bonding right. Lincoln Electric already makes the products needed for the process: the wire consumable, the controlling software and the automated welding machines. There's really no better company today to do it than a company that's an expert in welding,
The company has been working in large-scale metal additive production for five years, but it was more as a research-and-development functioning, Whitehead explained Its newly established metal additive production service business will make formal Lincoln Electric's role in the space. The formal launch will be in mid-2019.
Now, the company is in the process of building out a new additive production center at 26250 Bluestone Blvd. in Euclid, by the company's head office. Lincoln has a long-term lease for the approximately 75,000-square-foot building,
The buildout started at the end of 2018. About a third of the building is now finished with office space and some existing robotic weld cells.
Lincoln produces additive metals as : excavator arms, propeller blades. For example, an excavator arm may be seven feet tall and 600 or 700 pounds, . In comparison, products made through metal powder 3D printing tend to be much smaller
There are different benefits to making those large parts in this way. For example, Whitehead The company's president said Lincoln Electric had been approached by the military in the past. The Navy was looking for a way to minimize the number of tools it needed to transport in order to fix its equipment. Large-scale metal additive manufacturing would let them take one robot that could make what they needed on site, he said.
While a lot of what Lincoln Electric has been doing so far has been creating experimental or prototype parts, Whitehead sees a lot of opportunity in additive production. And he thinks the large-scale metal parts market has been ignored.
innovation at Team NEO. Additive manufacturing is one of the technologies Team NEO has focused on supporting in recent years. Being able to provide different types of additive production with different kinds of materials, from metal to polymer to ceramic, is a benefit to the region.
Additive manufacturing, and the companies that are spinning out, starting up or maturing into the space, represents a "huge opportunity for Northeast Ohio," said Rob Gorham, executive director of America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown. This kind of expertise is going to make what he called the "Tech Belt" of Northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania business more lively.
Lincoln Electric is a part of America Makes and has worked on some of the institute's projects works..
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