The skills shortage is becoming increasingly challenging for both industry and commerce, with welding specialists in particularly high demand. It is proving especially difficult to find good TIG welders.
That’s because TIG welding is the very top tier of welding processes and requires an enormous amount of skill and experience. Or does it?
» All the innovations that we have packed into the new iWave cold-wire components and associated software solution will make TIG welding a lot simpler. Thanks to TIG DynamicWire, the welder can now focus solely on the arc, as the welding system controls the wire, ensuring the optimum wire speed at all times. «
Manuel Rumpl, Head of Strategic Product Management, Industrial Welding Solutions, Fronius International GmbH
The innovative advantage of Fronius DynamicWire compared to a conventional continuous wirefeed lies in its automatic self-regulation. The welding system actively adjusts the wire speed to the welding behavior, torch position, and current conditions, even compensating automatically for component tolerances of up to 30 %.
The result? Perfect welds every time.
It is now easy even for amateurs to create perfect TIG welded seams, thanks to the intelligent, dynamic wire control, which is a groundbreaking innovation in cold wire TIG welding. This maintains the right travel speed and thus adapts the welding process to the operator, rather than the other way around!
During development of the cold wire system, no detail was too small for us when it came to ensuring that welders could work optimally with minimal steps and adjustments. The wirefeeder only has to be set once, after which it remains in a stable position. The ergonomic and flexible holder is particularly lightweight as it is produced using material-saving aluminum 3D printing. There are also no disturbing vibrations at the torch handle, as (unlike with comparable solutions) the mechanical forward and backward motion of the wire has been dispensed with entirely with the new TIG DynamicWire.
With the Tungsten Fast Clamp System (TFC), all it takes is a single push of a button to loosen and clamp the tungsten electrode in the spring-loaded clamping sleeve. Similar to a mechanical pencil, the electrodes can be changed in a few seconds. Plus, you can also now install this system on existing torch bodies.
In times of skills shortages, we are introducing iWave complete with cold-wirefeeding and TIG DynamicWire in order to help all TIG novices and those with less experience achieve a great welding result and fast. Self-regulating welding parameter settings and characteristics as well as a compensatory active wirefeeder provide the necessary safety and ensure a high level of quality.
Since the wire does not continuously move back and forth during intelligent cold wire TIG welding, even wear parts such as the torch body, torch cap, and clamping sleeve experience reduced abrasion and last longer than comparable solutions.
The iWave power categories from 300i to 500i can be upgraded to the cold wire TIG system. The Welding Package TIG DynamicWire is ready for use immediately by means of software activation and can also be retrofitted to existing iWave systems at any time.
Find out more at: TIG DynamicWire
