Ed has 40 years experience in providing Weld Best Practices and Weld Process Controls.
He has provided training on these subjects to over a thousand manufactures in twelve different countries.
[] For
18 years Ed wrote the Weld QA section in Weld Design Fabrication.
[] Ed wrote the Weld and Cutting sections in the Machinery Handbook.
[] He rewrote the
Thermal Cutting Section" on Laser-Plasma-Oxy Fuel Cutting
in the 1988.ASM Handbook,
Ninth Edition.
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Ed has had over 35 articles published on Manual and Robot
Weld Process Controls
[] Ed has written five books on the subject of MIG and Flux Cored
Weld Process Controls.
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Ed was a key American Weld Society Committee member in the development
of the AWS MIG Weld Gas Specifications.
[] Ed developed the "Pocket Welder"
[] Ed has three weld and cladding patents in the Power Industry.
[] Ed bought the TIP TIG Welding process to North America.
This MIG Welding Forum is intended
for legitimate weld related questions and content. This is not a location for
welding industry sales persons to tout
their weld products, generate sales leads or saturate the welding industry with
more biased weld product advice.
If you have to Ask Lincoln How!
you are not a weld process control expert. 
If you "play around" with weld controls
what does that say about your weld process expertise?
For
decades MIG and Flux Cored weld process confusion and the common reliance on weld salesmanship has distracted the global weld
industry from the establishment of fundamental Best Weld Practices and the implementation
of cost effective Weld Process Controls.
1988: From
a speech provided by Ed at a seminar given to the Brazilian Engineering Society.
Rio.
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Your
value to your welding organization has to
come from "your weld
process control knowledge".
Your
value to your wife is how quickly
you apologize and say "Yes
Dear"
Instead of providing an SMAW - OXY FUEL weld education based on a 1960's weld curriculum, the majority of weld global weld education facilities need to wake up and provide the weld industry with the MIG - FCAW - TIG, Best Weld Practices and Process Control Training Programs it really needs.
 The
Missing Link from global Weld Education Facilities:
While numerous educational facilities offer weld education diplomas, during the last three decades, the majority of these institutions have failed to educate
their engineers, technicians and welders on the fundamentals
necessary to establish effective MIG - TIP TIG and Flux cored Best Weld Practices and Weld
Process Controls.
 [] The
global welding industry needs hands on Engineers and Technicians that are Process Control
experts in the bread and butter processes.
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The
global welding industry needs weld decision makers that can "without playing around" instantly produce
cost effective, optimum quality MIG - TIG - FCAW manual and robot welds.
[] The
global welding industry needs Engineers
and Technicians that can optimize both manual and automated MIG - TIG and Flux Cored weld production
efficiency.
[] The
global welding industry needs Managers - Supervisors - Engineers and Technicians that have the ability to cut through the useless, costly,
bells, whistles and salesmanship that daily saturates the weld industry.
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The
global welding industry need Weld Decision makers willing to take on process ownership people who have the ability to establish cost effective Weld
Best Practices and Weld Process Controls.
It takes less than two weeks to train a "none welder" to be able to produce optimum MIG or Flux Cored
code quality welds on any application, yet too many weld educational
facilities spend months or years focused on weld skills and place minimal focus on the two components that optimize welds, Best Weld Practices and Process Control Training. The finished product at most global weld educational institutions is
weld personnel that will daily "play around" with weld
controls and managers, engineers, supervisors and technicians that rely on weld salesmen
for weld advice
One day in North America we will have weld educators who hopefully can responded to an industry that daily looses hundreds of millions of dollars from weld rework, weld rejects
and poor weld productivity.
Imagine the impact on the welding industry from properly trained weld engineers,
managers, supervisors, technicians and welders. These individuals would have ability to daily generate hundreds
of millions of dollars in weld cost savings through improved manual and automated weld productivity and quality.
For those interested in Ed's Best Weld Practices and Weld Process
Control, Self Teaching or Training resources click here.
WELD FORUM.
Please keep your weld or cutting questions and answers to the point. If looking for MIG - FCAW - TIG welding
or steel data first look in the main
MIG - FCAW - TIG sections of this web site, or in this section use "key words" in the Search Discussion.
The Search Discussion will bring up the history of over a 1000 weld questions.
WELD
QUESTIONS: If asking a weld question,
when relevant, please provide the manual or automated weld transfer mode,
the material type, the weld surface conditions, the part thickness, the weld consumable
type and size, the weld gas, the wire feed speed, travel speed, amps and the voltage.
Again I remind the readers at this site, don't get angry at the messenger. Examine the
strong message of lack of management / engineering process ownership in this industry. Understand
the influence of weld salesmanship on this self taught industry. Focus on the root causes
of your daily weld issues and then use weld process control logic and knowledge to provide
cost effective, practical solutions |
