About Maintenance Welding

WHAT IS MAINTENANCE WELDING ? :-

Maintenance welding is entirely different to production welding. Machines today are designed for higher production capabilities, requiring greater power, speed and heat input. As a result, stress, load, shock, vibration, wear and tear are far greater than on machinery of previous years. Therefore, they have to be manufactured using special high alloy steels. Additionally, a single piece of equipment may have a number of parts and components – all differing in composition to one another. How then can a maintenance department be expected to keep critical equipment running at peak performance using production oriented welding alloys? Furthermore, the department would have to stock a huge inventory of welding rods for various types of base metal compositions. Hence the need for a specialized line of purely maintenance oriented welding products. It is therefore imperative, for your maintenance department, to have on hand “MG” and “Metarc” products. This would ensure fast, versatile, reliable welds and repairs with minimum inventory.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE WELDING

 

PRODUCTION WELDING	MAINTENANCE WELDING
Base metal composition is known	Base Metal composition is not known
Work is repetitive	Each repair is different
Welder has use of jigs and fixtures.	Welder has no jigs and fixtures
Base metal is clean and new	Base metal is dirty, oil soaked, rusted, and often fatigued.
Quantum of welding required each day known	Welder never knows what repair will be required next

 

Maintenance welding can therefore be termed as a CRITICALLY CURRENT (CC) situation which has to be taken care of immediately to avoid costly downtime. The weld repair has to be quick, efficient and reliable. The welder has no time to procrastinate on what rod to use, accurate analysis of base metal composition, lengthy process of pre-weld dismantling and cleaning.

Thus answer lies in using “MG” and “Metarc”, which totally eliminates guesswork. With a single alloy option, you have an immediate permanent reliable repair.