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Gain real insight into your business with a Welding Efficiency Analysis from Airgas, an Air Liquide company
How competitive are you?
How do you know how competitive you are? Most businesses don’t have any insight into how their peers are performing. You don’t know how much they’re spending or how efficient they are. If you don’t know what the industry averages are, how do you know if you are best in class, average or worse, at the very bottom? Gaining insights like this could be a game changer for your business. Knowing where you are compared to others will allow you to take the steps you need to ensure your performance is among the very best.
What are your challenges?
Over the past decade, Airgas has created a database based on the more than 2,500 audits we’ve completed studying metal fabrication shops via the Welding Efficiency Analysis (WEA). As part of the Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding™ program, the WEA collects and analyzes key inputs about your business to help you realize where you’re wasting resources. As you continue through the program, an Advanced Fabrication expert will work with you to develop and implement a continuous improvement plan. After the implementation stage, we’ll help you stay on track by monitoring your progress using our Digital Welding Efficiency Analysis™ (DWEA™) dashboard. We want to be sure we’re doing everything we can to deliver sustainable cost savings to you.
A Welding Efficiency Analysis is like a check-up for your shop.
Scott Laymon, National Advanced Fabrication Project Leader
“A Welding Efficiency Analysis is like a check-up for your shop. We establish a baseline for your welding operations and then compare that baseline to our data from more than 3,000 surveys. This helps us uncover any inefficiencies and propose actionable improvements.”
The weight in lbs. of the wire melted per hour
The US median pay rate for welders is $22.60 (per hour).**
This interactive calculator is designed to give you a preview of what you can learn about your operation from a Welding Efficiency Analysis as well as how your operation compares to the industry average.
An Airgas Welding Efficiency Analysis provides you with insight into how your operation is performing and helps you quantify the real costs of any inefficiencies you may have. We can analyze your operation to help you evaluate cost to weld, travel speed, over welding, gas to wire ratio, MIG consumable efficiencies, plasma consumables efficiencies, operator factor and more with the .
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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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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Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding
Hear our customers describe their Unlocking the Hidden Cost of Welding class experience and how it’s changed the way they see their business.
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