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Gaining just 1 minute of arc time can increase your shop's productivity by 20% to 40%, without buying new equipment or hiring more staff.
The Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding™ program from Airgas helps manufacturers benchmark performance, eliminate hidden operational waste and drive lasting profitability. Want to see where your shop loses time? Download the Welding 100 Report below to benchmark your operation.
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CSI Industries: Doubling Volume Without Adding Overhead
Learn how Plant Manager Mickey Rathers teamed with Airgas to integrate robotic welding and gas efficiency, doubling output with his existing headcount while significantly expanding profit margins.
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Keystone Ridge Designs: Refocusing on Core Manufacturing
Discover how turning inventory management and hard goods procurement over to Airgas eliminated vendor downtime, cut material costs and freed up key personnel to boost production.
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See How Quality Standards Impact Productivity
Learn more about our systematic program aimed at helping you compete with increased productivity, improved quality and sustainable cost reductions.
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Balancing customer quality with profitable production requires total visibility into your process. But how do your gas usage, arc-on time, and consumable costs truly compare to industry peers? Backed by baseline data from more than 3,000 facilities, the Welding 100 — Welding Performance Indicators report helps you identify hidden savings, boost throughput, and protect your margins.
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The Airgas Advanced Fabrication Team has helped more than 3,000 companies unlock hidden costs within their welding operations. Meet two companies who recently went through the program and see how Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding has helped transform their work.
Employing a team of highly skilled welders, Anderson-Crane prides itself on quality and efficiency. However, despite its experience, operational challenges were holding it back. Find out how the company’s work with Airgas helped Anderson-Crane unlock sustainable change.
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Inconsistent welding processes and operational inefficiencies made it difficult for the welding team at MWI Pumps to reach their full potential. See how a collaboration with Airgas helped the company realize significant improvements in productivity, process efficiency, and cost savings.
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Ready to boost your bottom line by optimizing your welding operations?
Boris Shneyder, National Director, Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding
“Ready to boost your bottom line by optimizing your welding operations? Airgas's Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding™ program can help you uncover and eliminate hidden expenses that are impacting your profitability. Through expert analysis and tailored solutions, we'll help you improve productivity, enhance weld quality, and reduce costs associated with consumables, downtime, and rework — often with little to no capital investment required.”
Our team of Advanced Fabrication experts is focused on helping you compete in the marketplace. With that mind, we’ve studied more than 2,500 welding operations and developed Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding (UHCW) — a comprehensive, systematic program for monitoring and continuous improvement designed to ensure you stay competitive. From start to finish, we’ll work with you to develop and implement a plan for quality assurance that generates sustainable savings for your business. In addition, we help you remain focused on your goals with a digital monitoring tool that allows you to track your progress over time.
Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding
Get a deeper understanding of each step of our five-stage program designed to help you improve product quality, increase productivity and find sustainable cost savings for your business.
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Compete in the Metal Fabrication Industry
Learn more about the tools we offer to help you compete, including systematic savings programs and the expertise of our Advanced Fabrication experts.
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Welding Efficiency Programs: Do or Do Not. There Is No “Try”
Improving your welding efficiency takes a lot more than just trying to do it. You must fully commit to a program and stick with it to realize long-term success. Our expert shares some words of wisdom for companies who want to implement an efficiency program in their shop.
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Transformative Change for Impressive Results
See how MWI Pumps was able to increase its productivity and process efficiency by a third and eliminate hidden costs with a trio of solutions from Airgas.
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As Seen at FABTECH: Benchmarking Your Fabrication Costs
Rob Tessier explains how most welders weld for less than 9 minutes an hour and use up to 40% more wire and gas than needed. How about your company? Learn to benchmark your costs.
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As Seen at FABTECH: Digital Tools for Continuous Improvement Monitoring
Alissa Stanley, Senior Digital Visualization Analyst, demonstrates how digital tools from Airgas can help you monitor and improve your TIG and MIG welding efficiency and team safety for sustainable cost savings
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