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Advancing Aerospace: 5 Applications of Electron Beam Welding
Considering how critical welds are, how much thought are you putting into welding and who is doing that welding for you? This guide will break down choosing a welding vendor and give you a framework to help make decisions that fit all aspects of your requirements, from quality, to expedience, to price.
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Considering how critical welds are, how much thought are you putting into welding and who is doing that welding for you? This guide will break down choosing a welding vendor and give you a framework to help make decisions that fit all aspects of your requirements, from quality, to expedience, to price.
Read More ►How to Select a Welding Vendor
Considering how critical welds are, how much thought are you putting into welding and who is doing that welding for you? This guide will break down choosing a welding vendor and give you a framework to help make decisions that fit all aspects of your requirements, from quality, to expedience, to price.
Read More ►Advantages of Electron Beam Welding for Aerospace Applications
In the aerospace industry, precision and reliability are paramount. When it comes to joining critical components, such as those found in aircraft engines or structural elements, choosing the right welding method is crucial. Electron beam welding is the choice for quality.
Read More ►Why Welds Fail
There are many reasons a weld can fail, but generally, weld failures can be attributed to a few causes that can be mitigated with experience and the right process approach.
Read More ►Welding Difficult and Dissimilar Metals
Critical applications often require metals with special properties. Often, those properties make welding more challenging. Metallurgy, the right welding process, and experience go a long way toward meeting the challenge.
Read More ►Test to the Application, Not the Spec
Proper testing lies not in the specification but in the application. Too much testing can be costly and unnecessary. Too little testing, or testing only to the standard, can leave you with parts that don’t perform in the application. The right testing follows the requirements of the application.
Read More ►Welding to AMS 2680
AMS 2680 is a very stringent aerospace welding standard that is applied in critical applications.
Read More ►Raytheon Approved for Laser and Electron Beam Welding
Raytheon is well-known for maintaining high standards and quality. EB Industries is now an approved Raytheon supplier for electron beam welding services.
Read More ►EB Industries is a Pratt & Whitney Approved Supplier
Pratt & Whitney is known for the high quality of its products. That quality is maintained, in part, by Pratt & Whitney’s very high standards and rigorous supplier approval system. We’re proud that we’re an approved Pratt and Whiney supplier.
Read More ►Copper to Stainless Steel Welding
Welding copper to stainless steel is something we do quite about for our customers. It can be a tricky combination of materials to weld. Here is a bit about it, the problems involved, and the solutions we use at EBI.
Read More ►Medical Devices: a Study in Collaboration
Medical devices take a long time to get to market. We specialize in collaborating with our suppliers to move faster with full quality and documentation.
Read More ►Extraordinary Demands in Extraordinary Times
COVID-19 and the coronavirus pandemic have been a test to the way all of us do business. Do your suppliers have your back? We’ve been here for our customers, and this article describes our commitment.
Read More ►Covid-19 Update 02: EB Deemed Essential
We have been deemed essential for national security. We will be helping our customers with their parts, while being careful about the safety and health of our staff.
Read More ►Covid-19 Update 01
A brief rundown of the preventative measures we’ve taken to ensure the safety and health of our staff, and make sure we can fulfill our commitments to our customers.
Read More ►We’ve Gotten a Perfect Score: NPS 100
We’ve been awarded a Net Promoter Score of +100. What is an NPS, and what does this all mean? Read on to find out.
Read More ►ISO 13485:2016 Certified Vendors Make Good Business Sense
ISO 13485:2016, the latest version of the international standard for medical devices, has been adopted by the FDA. Practically, what this means is that if you’re making medical devices in the United States, it makes sense to deal with suppliers that are certified to the standard, which we are.
Read More ►Conduction Mode and Keyhole Mode Welding
High energy fusion welding systems – electron beam and laser beam welding – have two basic welding modes. Which one is best for your application depends on a variety of factors. This article is a quick look at the two modes and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Read More ►CW and Pulsed Laser Welding
Continuous wave or pulsed laser welding… what are the differences, and more importantly, which is more suited to your application? This article is a quick look at the pros and cons of each, to help you make decisions when developing your project.
Read More ►Welding Specifications for Electron Beam Welding
Electron beam welding is controlled by a number of different standards. This article provides an overview of the differences between these standards with respect to the issues engineers must consider when designing assemblies for EBW (Electron Beam Welding)
Read More ►Winning Work Back from Overseas
The dominant narrative these days about the manufacturing business in the United States is that China is strangling it with lower costs driven by less regulation and cheap labor. However, American companies can compete if they’re innovative and persistent, and we at EB Industries are proud to be an American company that is making a difference in keeping manufacturing in the United States.
Read More ►AS9100: the Advantages of Standards
AS9100 is an aerospace industry standard that is rigorous and comprehensive. This article discusses the standard in detail and explains why it is to your benefit to work with companies that have AS9100 certification.
Read More ►Developing Welds: A Study in Collaboration
Collaborating with our customers is the foundation of our philosophy at EBI. This article is about one such collaboration with a battery manufacturer, and how we used our expertise with laser welding technology to help them cost effectively manufacture their product.
Read More ►3D Laser Cutting and Welding: A Game Changer
We’ve added 3D Laser Welding and Laser Cutting to our services. Here’s a bit about it and how it might be of benefit to you.
Read More ►EB Industries Exhibiting at Space Tech Expo USA 2017
We’re exhibiting at SPACE TECH EXPO USA 2017. Come meet us.
Read More ►EB Industries Featured in The Fabricator Magazine’s August Issue
We recently wrote a very comprehensive article on the differences between electron beam and laser beam welding for The Fabricator Magazine. Read on for details.
Read More ►How to Get a 0% Weld Failure Rate
EB Industries has an industry low weld failure rate. One of our customers was curious as to why we could achieve this compared to some of their other suppliers. Here’s the story.
Read More ►Why EB Welding Is Still Cutting Edge Technology
EB Welding technology has been around since the 1950’s. And despite all the scientific and technological advances across six decades, it is still the best process to join metals, especially difficult to weld alloys and dissimilar materials. Here’s why it is still top dog after all these years.
Read More ►Welding Aluminum: Solving Porosity Problems
Welding T2219 Aluminum to AMS2680 is very difficult, principally due to porosity issues. This brief article is how EBI developed a process to weld a particularly difficult weld in a mission critical aerospace application.
Read More ►EB Industries Celebrates 50th Anniversary as Leading Electron Beam and Laser Welding Firm
EB Industries was one of the first companies in the United States to embrace electron beam welding technology. And we’ve been an industry leader since. Recently, EBI celebrated a birthday.
Read More ►Precision Welding as an Alternative to Brazing
Brazing is a commonly used joining process, but for many applications it simply isn’t rugged enough or appropriate for heat sensitive components. We have an alternative. Read about it here.
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