In certain embodiments, inductive heating is added to a metal working process, such as a welding process, by an induction heating head. The induction heating head may be adapted specifically for this purpose, and may include one or more coils to direct and place the inductive energy, protective structures, and so forth. Productivity of a welding process may be improved by the application of heat from the induction heating head. The heating is in addition to heat from a welding arc, and may facilitate application of welding wire electrode materials into narrow grooves and gaps, as well as make the processes more amenable to the use of certain compositions of welding wire, shielding gasses, flux materials, and so forth. In addition, distortion and stresses are reduced by the application of the induction heating energy in addition to the welding arc source.

A hot-pressed member is formed using a tailored blank material obtained by butt joining respective ends of two or more coated steel sheets. The hot-pressed member has two or more sites formed by the respective coated steel sheets and at least one joining portion between the sites. Depending on a type of a coated layer of each of the coated steel sheets, t.sub.w/t.sub.0 is appropriately controlled where t.sub.w is a thickness of a thinnest portion in the joining portion and t.sub.0 is a thickness of a thinnest site of the sites. A tensile strength of each of the sites is 1180 MPa or more.

A hot-pressed member is formed using a tailored blank material obtained by butt joining respective ends of two or more coated steel sheets. The hot-pressed member has two or more sites formed by the respective coated steel sheets and at least one joining portion between the sites. Depending on a type of a coated layer of each of the coated steel sheets, t.sub.w/t.sub.0 is appropriately controlled where t.sub.w is a thickness of a thinnest portion in the joining portion and t.sub.0 is a thickness of a thinnest site of the sites. A tensile strength of each of the sites is 1180 MPa or more.

An additive manufacturing method includes a step of measuring a temperature of an object of processing or a shaping material and outputting temperature data, a step of correcting basic commands based on a basic processing program and the temperature data, and determining post-correction commands including a material supply command, a heat source supply unit command, a drive command, and a gas supply command, a step of supplying the shaping material to a processing position of a shaped article based on the material supply command, a step of supplying a heat source to melt the shaping material supplied to the processing position based on the heat source supply unit command, a step of changing the relative position between the processing position and the shaped article based on the drive command, and a step of supplying, to the processing position, a shielding gas based on the gas supply command.

The invention relates to a device and to a method for producing a tested weld joint between two contact elements (11, 12), which are joined together in a welding plane S, comprising a compressing space for accommodating the contact elements (11, 12), said compressing space being delimited by a work surface of a sonotrode, which transmits ultrasonic oscillations, and a counter-surface (15) of a counter-electrode (16) in a first axial direction at two opposing sides and by delimiting surfaces of opposing delimiting elements in a second axial direction at two opposing sides, said device comprising a test head (27) next to the compressing space, and said test head being able to be transferred from a position outside of the compressing space to a position within the compressing space in such a manner that the test head (27) is disposed within the open compressing space in a test mode of the device for subjecting a contact element (12) of the previously produced weld joint to a shear force essentially oriented parallel to the welding plane S, and said test head (27) being disposed outside of the compressing space in a welding mode of the device for producing the weld joint.

A metallic member bonding device includes a pressurizing unit, a current supply unit, and a deformation suppressing unit. The pressurizing unit pressurizes a first metallic member toward a hole portion of a second metallic member to press the first metallic member therein. The current supply unit supplies a welding current between the first metallic member and the second metallic member. The deformation suppressing unit suppresses deformation of one of the first metallic member and the second metallic member, the one member having a constituent metallic material with at least one of a proof stress and a melting temperature lower than that of the other member, the deformation being in a direction of a cross section crossing a direction of the press-in. Then, the deformation suppressing unit is provided in a region covering at least a plastic flow range in the press-in direction.

A system and method of monitoring a powder-bed additive manufacturing process is provided where a layer of additive powder is fused using an energy source and electromagnetic emission signals are measured by a melt pool monitoring system to monitor the print process. The measured emission signals are analyzed to identify outlier emissions and clusters of outliers are identified by assessing the spatial proximity of the outlier emissions, e.g., using clustering algorithms, spatial control charts, etc. An alert may be provided or a process adjustment may be made when a cluster is identified or when a magnitude of a cluster exceeds a predetermined cluster threshold.

A surface mounted technology (SMT) process prediction tool for intelligent decision making on PCB quality is disclosed. A data fusion tool automatically reads size parameters and component information on design conditions of a printed board to be assembled from a database and creates a design condition list for different components for a software execution layer; a printing parameter decision-making toolkit and a soldering parameter decision-making toolkit in the software execution layer perform comparisons on printing and soldering data according to design conditions of components on the printed board to be assembled, perform automatic decision making on printing and soldering parameters with a multi-objective optimization algorithm and a deep learning algorithm, predict printing quality and soldering quality, and send decided printing and soldering process parameters and corresponding predicted quality results to a human-computer interaction toolkit, to visually display the printing and soldering process parameters and the predicted quality values.

A method includes receiving welding data corresponding to a welding session completed with a welding system, receiving a selected location from an operator, and displaying on a display one or more quality characteristics of the welding session corresponding to the selected location. The welding data includes welding parameters and quality characteristics corresponding to a plurality of points along a path of the welding session. The welding parameters include a work angle of a welding torch, a travel angle of the welding torch, a contact tip to work distance, a travel speed of the welding torch along the path of the welding session, an aim of the welding torch, or any combination thereof. The quality characteristics include porosity, undercut, spatter, underfill, overfill, or any combination thereof. The selected location corresponds to a point of the plurality of points along the path of the welding session.

A control device includes a storage unit that stores motion assessment index information for mapping a normal range for doing work motion to associated knowledge about the normal range, a motion information detection unit that detects motion information which is the result of measuring motion of a trainee, a motion determination unit that determines whether or not the motion information detected by the motion information detection unit deviates from the normal range stored in the storage unit, and a notification unit that acquires from the storage unit the associated knowledge mapped to the normal range from which the motion determination unit determines that the motion information deviates, and gives notice of the associated knowledge.