A maintenance technician arrives with a handheld laser welder, plugs into a standard power outlet, dials in a preset for thin stainless, and lays down a clean fish-scale bead in under twenty minutes.

Did you ever see a thin metal tab bonded to a battery terminal with little pock marks? That’s the work of a spot welder. Spot welding is one of those processes that doesn’t offer much in the way of ...

A strong weld does not begin when the arc starts or the laser beam hits the joint. It begins earlier, when the metal su ...

The last two decades have seen substantial improvements in ultrasonic plastic-welding machines. Bench-top models feature proportional-valve controls, linear encoders, line-voltage regulation, internal ...