Highly skilled welders and fitters should be on more complex tasks that robots aren’t a good fit. Companies should use robots to train new hires and start teaching them the trade. There is and always will be a need for skilled welders and fitters. The Challenger is an excellent choice for welding structural steel assemblies that are easy to fit and weld.

Or when ai takes over the system... now the can have babies? Totally right man. Who's paying my rent and groceries when all the world's jobs are gone?

Understood, I suspect your company purchased a Robotic welder to further improve productivity. Advances in technology ensure thate there will always be faster and cheaper ways of doing things........

Hi Randal - yes you are right. Plasma robotic copers are faster, but they cost 2x - 4x as much as the Liberator, and they require dust extraction unit to remove the plasma fumes. Plasma consumables adn dust extraction filters are ongoing costs that fabricators must deal with. Also, most plasma copers are limited to around 1-1/2" to 2" cutting capability so they do not work when you need to bevel or cut large jumbo columns. Currently one of our Liberators is performing 45degree weld prep bevels in both the web and flange of a W14x850, which has 6" flanges and 3" webs. We have had many Liberators perform cops that do not lend themselves to Plasma copers. Obvirously all machines come with their benefits, features and price points, and most machines eak out their place to play, and the Liberator has been a VERY successful product in Ocean's quiver of products for structural fabricators, and will probably continue to be one for the foreseeable future.

@@dannysteyn oo ya i could see a large shop using it for jumbo sizes, thats definitely true. good point. one decent sized project filled with jumbo beams would pay for it. but the robotic plasma copers pay for themselves so fast its crazy. id just hate to see a smaller growing shop get talked out of a plasma coper over the price of it

Hi Randal - yes the slings are loops. You lower the tower so that the slings can be pulled off the pulleys if needed, loop them around the beam place them over the pulley (takes about 30 seconds per side, and then raise the tower and the beam is lifted off the trestles, ready to be rotated. So simple - one of our fabricator just reported that they went from 12 beams a day to 23 beams a day on the same welding station. That is how much time was being lost waiting for a crane.

Yeah, get a different job

The Robot Scans the part before it starts welding. If the part is in the wrong place it will not weld it and it moves to the next part.

Hola Hugo, gracias por tu consulta. El Ocean Avenger se vende por aproximadamente $ 190- $ 220k según la longitud de la máquina y varias opciones, y esto incluye la instalación y la capacitación. Avenger viene con 12 meses de garantía en el sitio más capacidad de diagnóstico remoto. Este precio no incluye flete/aranceles/impuestos al país de ubicación final

Joseph, the cost of the Liberator (including software, installation and training) is under $200k, more if you add infeed and outfeed conveyors

Sawubona Fortune. Thanks for reaching out to us. I take it you are either Zulu or Siswati?? I am originally from South Africa myself but have family in Kwazulu and in Eswatini. And more interestingly, and I have the basic version Avenger CNC drill line in both of those places too!!! Give me an email address and I will send you a quotation.

@@Oceanmachinery Many thanks for getting back to me, what makes this so special is the fact that the first part of the reply was crafted in my language, thank you for that. I am from Eswatini, thank you for noting that and my email address is: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]

Do u need help running this machine u can call me

Sharat - please email me at [email protected] and I can send you more information. THank you