Welding is used everywhere around you, be it at home, outdoors, for business or even crafts. Most things are actually welded together, including historical monuments, power plants, ship buildings, bridges, jewelry pieces, refineries and many more. While welding has initially been considered an activity for manufacturers, nowadays craftsmen and hobbyists all over the world have started using it in their own activities. Also homeowners use it for home improvements.
In a nutshell, when you are welding, you are joining various pieces of metal, plastic and other material types together. While forge was the initial process introduced many years ago, newer welding style came to be in the 20th century. Later on newer equipment has been introduced with the latest technological advancements. Mig and Tig welding technology comes to mind here.
Nowadays there are many new and modern tools and accessories used in welding along with various welding equipment that is created based on the latest and most modern technology. Currently you can find welding used in consumable, as well as in non-consumable electrode methods.
In the consumable electrode methods we can find techniques such as flux cored and submerged arc welding, shielded metal and gas metal arc welding. The non-consumable type has techniques included such as gas tungsten, atomic hydrogen and plasma arc.
When it comes to actual products, you can find stick and submerged arc products, mig, tic, wire feeders, multi process units and spot welders, along with water coolers. In addition you will find various plasma cutters that are also doing plasma gouging. The actual welders models are tig welder, mig welder, aluminum welder, metal and steel welder and reconditioned welder.
In the end the most commonly used processes are Stick, TIG, MIG and FCAW. These are the processes that have become popular because they are what industry needs. They produce welds ranging from mass production to x-ray quality. So you can easily see how widely used welding is and why anyone would want to take up on learning welding for their business, for their home improvement and renovating projects, or even as a rewarding hobby.
