In one embodiment, a welding system having a welding power supply configured to provide welding power is provided. The welding system additionally includes a weld cable coupled to the welding power supply and configured to transmit the welding power. The welding system further includes a processor configured to transmit and to receive a plurality of tones to provide communications with a device external to the welding power supply via the weld cable.

Disclosed is a system for feeding welding wire for welding-type applications. The system includes a welding wire feeder and a separate wire source including a wire source housing. The wire source is connectable to and disconnectable from the wire feeder.

A data structure for weld programs associates configuration data for a welding system with a plurality of weld programs and weld sequence data. The data structure allows the welding system to be configured for a particular part, operator, or stage in a welding process, and to be easily reconfigured when the part, operator, or stage changes, providing improved efficiency and flexibility in operation.

A a multiple welding method having an improved starting process in which the control unit of the guide electrode starts welding-wire advancing of the guide electrode and sends a synchronization signal to the control unit of the trailing electrode when the guide electrode has moved a certain distance or for a certain time. The control unit of the trailing electrode starts welding-wire advancing of the trailing electrode in dependence on the received synchronization signal before the guide electrode touches the workpiece.

Method and arrangement for carrying out a multiple pulse welding method in which an ideal ratio between the root-mean-square value of the welding current and the welding wire feeding speed is determined from a known relationship between the pulse frequency and the welding wire feeding speed, an actual root-mean-square value of the welding current is determined by the welding current with the pulse frequency to be set, and at least one pulsed current parameter of the welding current of the pulse welding process and/or the welding wire feeding speed of the pulse welding process is changed in order to change the actual ratio to the ideal ratio.

Method for scanning a workpiece surface (2A) of a metal workpiece (2), in which a blowtorch (3) having a welding wire electrode (4) is moved relative to the workpiece surface (2A) to determine scanning values and a wire end (4A) of the welding wire electrode (4) is repeatedly moved towards the workpiece surface (2A), in each case until contact with the metal workpiece (2) at a scanning position (P) on the workpiece surface (2A) of the metal workpiece (2) is detected, and the wire end (4A) of the welding wire electrode (4) is subsequently moved back, the blowtorch (3) detecting scanning values (d) at scanning positions (P), at least in some cases multiple times, to determine scanning measurement errors.

An additive manufacturing system is disclosed including a material feeding device, a first heat source device and a second heat source device. The material feeding device is configured to feed the material onto a substrate for additive manufacturing. The first heat source device is configured to provide a main heat source for melting or sintering the material. The second heat source device is configured to provide an auxiliary heat source for melting or sintering the material. A type of the heat source provided by the first heat source device is different from a type of the heat source provided by the second heat source device. An additive manufacturing method is also disclosed. The additive manufacturing system and the additive manufacturing method according to the present application can improve the rate of the additive manufacturing, reduce the manufacturing cost, improve the stability of the molten pool and improve the manufacturing accuracy and the product quality.

A welding control device configured to control a position control object which includes at least one of a welding wire used to weld a welding object or an electrode for melting the welding wire includes a first decision unit for deciding an actual position of the position control object based on a welding feature amount detected from an image which is shot to include at least the position control object, a second decision unit for deciding a target position which is a target of the actual position according to an input condition based on the input condition which includes at least one of attitude information of the electrode when the welding object is welded or shape information of the welding object, and a control unit for performing position control of the position control object so that the actual position becomes the target position.

An arc welding method includes welding a steel sheet while alternately switching feeding of a welding wire between forward feeding and backward feeding. The welding wire contains, in mass % with respect to a total mass to the welding wire, C: more than 0 and 0.30 or less, Si: 0.01 to 0.30, Mn: 0.5 to 2.5, S: 0.001 to 0.020, Ti: 0.05 to 0.30, and optional elements with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and a value obtained by 2×[Ti]/[Si]−50×[S] is more than 1.0. The welding is performed by using a shielding gas containing CO.sub.2 gas in an amount of 80 vol. % or more with respect to a total volume of the shielding gas at a frequency of 40 Hz or more and 200 Hz or less, where one cycle for determining the frequency is one forward feeding and one backward feeding.

A welding system configured to eliminate effects of arc blow in a welding operation. The welding system comprises welding circuitry, preheat circuitry, a drive roller, and control circuitry configured to perform a reciprocation cycle. The reciprocation cycle may include the steps of: advancing a filler material toward the welding work piece until the filler material is electrically connected to the weld pool; supplying the preheat power to heat the filler material while the filler material is electrically connected to the weld pool; retracting the filler material away from the welding work piece until the filler material is not electrically connected to the weld pool; and terminating supply of the preheat power to the filler material while the filler material is not electrically connected to the weld pool.