Arc Machines, Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures and distributes advanced automated orbital welding

Orbital welding

Orbital welding is a specialised area of welding whereby the arc is rotated mechanically through 360° around a static workpiece, an object such as a pipe, in a continuous process.-Equipment:...

 equipment, systems and services. Founded in 1976, Arc Machines is headquartered in Pacoima, California with offices in Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom plus a network of domestic and international representatives in more than 50 countries worldwide.

History

Arc Machines, Inc. (AMI), was created in 1976 to provide engineering solutions for custom applications requiring reliable automatic orbital welding equipment that produces high quality, repeatable welds mainly in the semiconductor and nuclear industries. From its early development as a superior welding process for the semiconductor industry, AMI has been expanding its orbital welding technology and now serves the needs of many other industries such as food processing, pharmaceutical, offshore, biotechnology, shipbuilding, nuclear, power generation and aerospace, among others.

Milestones:

• 1985 Arc Machines (European Branch Office) - Gland, Switzerland.
• 1991 Arc Machines UK, Ltd. - Daventry, United Kingdom.
• 1993 Arc Machines, GmbH. - Much, Germany.
• 2008 Acquisition of Exel Orbital Products in the U.S.A.
• 2010 Applied Solutions Group - Charlotte, North Carolina U.S.A.

Industries

Industries using automated orbital welding:

• Aerospace
• Brewery
  Brewery
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• Food/Dairy/Beverage
  Food processing
  Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food or to transform food into other forms for consumption by humans or animals either in the home or by the food processing industry...
  
  
• Fossil
  Fossil fuel power plant
  A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil-fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation...
  
  
• Heat Exchanger Manufacturing
  Heat exchanger
  A heat exchanger is a piece of equipment built for efficient heat transfer from one medium to another. The media may be separated by a solid wall, so that they never mix, or they may be in direct contact...
  
  
• Nuclear
• Offshore
• Petrochemical
• Pharmaceutical

• Power Generation
• Pulp/Paper
  Pulp and paper industry
  The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American , northern European and East Asian countries...
  
  
• Semiconductor
  Semiconductor industry
  The semiconductor industry is the aggregate collection of companies engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductor devices. It formed around 1960, once the fabrication of semiconductors became a viable business...
  
  
• Shipbuilding
• Vessel Manufacturing
  Pressure vessel
  A pressure vessel is a closed container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure.The pressure differential is dangerous and many fatal accidents have occurred in the history of their development and operation. Consequently, their design,...
  
  
• Biotechnology
• Medical
• Wastewater Treatment

External Links

• | Achieving quality weld results in a biopharmaceutical plant (Article)
• | Documenting welds from an orbital welding power supply (Article)
• | Hot wire narrow groove welding and cladding with nickel-based alloys (Technical Paper)
• | Orbital welding of stainless steel tubing for biopharmaceutical, food and dairy applications (Article)
• | Installation of pharmaceutical process piping (Case Study)