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Are you competing at your very best?
How do you know where you stand compared to your peers and if you’re competing at the level you could be? As a business owner or manager responsible for delivering quality to your customers while managing your bottom line, you have to consider all of the variables. Is your process as efficient as it could be? Are you producing the quality that your customers expect? Is there an opportunity to produce more and spend less on welding costs? Answering these questions with certainty will help you ensure your operation continues to succeed by assuring your customers receive a quality product while controlling your production costs.
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Are you using more gas, wire, tips and discs than necessary? Are your welders spending enough time actually welding? The Welding 100 — Welding Performance Indicators report can help you answer those questions and more using baseline data from more than 3,000 locations. To get the report, click Unlock Report and fill out the brief form.
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 Costs 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.
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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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