Lincoln Electric’s REALWELD Advanced Trainer Improves Mastery of Welding Techniques

Allows students to “hit the booth running” thanks to accelerated comprehension and training time

Cleveland – Lincoln Electric’s REALWELD® Advanced Trainer gives students and prospective employees a live-arc, multi-sensory learning experience that merges actual welding with advanced motion tracking technology.

The system helps students master MIG, stick and flux-cored processes with immediate in-booth feedback and analysis. REALWELD improves training results by enhancing student comprehension, reducing training time and increasing certification rates in both school and industry settings. It is ideal for use as a bridge to traditional welding training or as a screening tool to determine welding proficiency.

Users can practice multi-pass capability in a number of positions, including 1F, 2F, 3F, 4F, 1G, 2G, and 3G and lap, tee, groove and flat-plate joints. Standard 6-inch and optional 18-inch fixtures allow users to perform a number of multi-pass industry-standard welds. A motorized carriage makes it easy to move the table and arm for welding in flat, vertical or overhead positions.

The system features an “Arc OFF” mode that allows students to first practice, troubleshoot and master welding techniques without burning an arc. This approach not only boosts learning and muscle memory but also helps reduce program material costs, including welding plate, flux, electrode or wire and shielding gas.

As a user welds, with or without an arc, the system analyzes and scores every attempted weld trial on five technique parameters, providing embedded, immediate and objective information on a 17-inch touchscreen display that students can access in the booth. The system also enables students to review how-to-videos, technical documents and even instructor handouts, such as safety data sheets, all on-screen in the booth. The display responds to gloved hands, so users do not have to stop and remove gloves to get instant information.

REALWELD mirrors the welding and teaching experience closer than any other training system. Its audio coaching feature provides users with guidance on weld speed, angles, aim, contact tip-to-work distance, arc length and weld position. These cues, which act like a welding instructor in every booth, can be turned off at any time to allow students or prospective employees to demonstrate learned behaviors without a guide.

Once a user welds, instructors then can review scoring and analysis to track student progress and immediately determine if students are developing bad habits. They also are able to adjust tolerances to lenient, moderate or stringent settings.

Additionally, instructors can set the system’s “sweet spot” parameters associated with proper welding techniques using welding procedure specifications (WPS) for each weld. Instructors can access the system anywhere, on the REALWELD unit itself or via their own computers using REALWELD’s Desktop Instructor feature.

When used with advanced welding equipment, such as the Power Wave® C300, REALWELD gives users exposure to the latest technologies used in today’s manufacturing industry.

Lincoln Electric’s REALWELD Advanced Trainer’s slim, vertical design maintains a small footprint, making the system ideal for set-up in any weld booth. Storage racks accommodate all six available fixtures.

For more details on the REALWELD Advanced Trainer, request bulletin MC15-99 or visit Lincoln Electric at FABTECH 2016, North America's largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event. Visitors can see new products and welding demonstrations at booth N5200, Nov. 16-18, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

For more information on Lincoln Electric, visit www.lincolnelectric.com.

Lincoln Electric is the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of arc welding products, robotic arc welding systems, plasma and oxyfuel cutting equipment and has a leading global position in the brazing and soldering alloys market. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln has 48 manufacturing locations, including operations and joint ventures in 19 countries and a worldwide network of distributors and sales offices covering more than 160 countries.

For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the company’s website at www.lincolnelectric.com.

Lincoln Electric is the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of arc welding products, robotic arc welding systems, plasma and oxyfuel cutting equipment and has a leading global position in the brazing and soldering alloys market. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln has 48 manufacturing locations, including operations and joint ventures in 19 countries and a worldwide network of distributors and sales offices covering more than 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the company’s website at www.lincolnelectric.com.

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