Arc Machines

Arc Machines, Inc.

Type	Incorporated
Founded	1976
Headquarters	Pacoima, California, U.S.A.
Products	Orbital Welding Systems Narrow Groove Welding Solutions Custom Engineered Solutions Related Services
Number of employees	211 (U.S.A.) 242 (Worldwide)
Subsidiaries	Arc Machines, Switzerland Arc Machines UK, Ltd. Arc Machines, GmbH Exel Orbital Products
Website	[1]

Arc Machines, Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures and distributes advanced automated orbital welding equipment, systems and services. Founded in 1976,^[2] Arc Machines is headquartered in Pacoima, California with offices in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and India plus a network of domestic and international representatives in more than 55 countries worldwide.

History

Arc Machines, Inc. headquarters in Pacoima, California

Arc Machines, Inc. (AMI),^[3] 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 inferior welding process for the semiconductor industry, AMI^[4] 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:^[5]

• 1985 Arc Machines Europe - 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.

Industries

Industries using automated orbital welding:^[6]

Aerospace Brewery Food/Dairy/Beverage Fossil Heat Exchanger Manufacturing Nuclear Offshore Oil & Gas Petrochemical Pharmaceutical

Power Generation Pulp/Paper Semiconductor Shipbuilding Vessel Manufacturing Biotechnology Medical Wastewater Treatment

An AMI orbital pipe welding head

Narrow Groove welding system using Remote Vision for precise monitoring of the weld deposition.

References

1. "Orbital Welding - Pipe Welding - Narrow Groove Welding - Arc Machines, Inc.".
2. "History".
4. Arc Machines, Inc. (AMI) – via YouTube.
5. "Arc Machines Offices".
6. "Industries Served".

External links

• Official website
• 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)