Productivity in Welding

Abstract

Obtaining better quality products in larger quantity at a lesser cost is the best way to achieve higher productivity. For the past two decades, we have been seeing explosions in the use of new welding processes and the associated techniques. Now, there are not less than three or more number of acceptable alternative welding techniques to make a product. This increase in the variety of welding processes together with the general movement towards more sophisticated methods of production, accounting and control has led to a gradual change in emphasis in the decision making process from a simple selection of the welding process which is technically the most satisfactory, to the one which is also the most economical in a given situation. This clearly reveals the interrelationship between productivity and economy.