When I graduated from university and moved into my own place, the only house I could afford was right near a manufacturing plant. At first, I thought living in the industrial part of the city would be a nightmare, but it actually turned out to be fascinating. I quickly developed an interest in industrial equipment and supplies, and spent many evenings walking around the factories to get a better look at what was going on inside. Since then, I've moved to a quiet part of the city, but my interest in industry never waned. Since I don't have the luxury of being able to visit the industrial district anymore, I thought I'd do the next best thing--start a blog about it!
Have you considered the benefits that hiring or training welders could offer your manufacturing business? Here are three positive reasons to choose welding as the preferred joining technique for your company.
Welding is the simplest choice
Welding is one of the easiest and most effective ways of connecting your component parts together. If you don't weld things together, then what are the alternatives? You could use rivets, but riveting consumes a lot of valuable floorspace and is an extremely noisy process that makes working difficult for everyone else employed on your premises.
You could choose to join your materials using nuts and bolts, but this is rarely a satisfactory solution. Not only is bolting your materials together slower than asking welders to do the job, but it also does not produce such a rigid, stable connection. Welders can create a stable joint without deafening everyone else in your company and without using up all of your floorspace.
Welding is more cost effective
Nuts and bolt connections and riveting will always work out to be more expensive than welding due to the additional machining costs and the extra material costs involved in purchasing the nuts and bolts or rivets. Welders can also produce joints more quickly than other methods. Creating a higher number of joints per hour makes welding the lowest cost and least labour intensive method of joint creation for your company. At a time when everyone is under pressure to cut costs and become more efficient, can you really afford the additional time and expense involved in riveting or bolting your joints?
Welders produce better mechanical joints
One of the advantages of welding which is sometimes overlooked is that welders can create stronger joints than are possible with other joining techniques. Both nuts and bolts and riveting involve creating holes in your material before they can be joined. Creating a hole shrinks the surface area of the material and therefore weakens the joint. With welding the entire surface area remains intact so the final joint will always be stronger. The stronger the joint, the better the final product will be, and the higher the level of customer satisfaction with your business.
Hiring welders for your firm is often a good solution, but if the amount of welding your company will do is limited, then hiring welding services from an existing company is a great idea. Professional welders can carry out all the welding you need without disrupting your existing business. If you choose qualified and experienced welders, you can have confidence that your welding will be completed on time and in accordance to your specifications, leaving you free to concentrate on all the other important tasks involved in running your business.
For more information, contact local professionals like those found at Burnback Welding Equip Services.