Hydraulic joints welded with orbital equipment offer superior corrosion resistance and mechanical properties. Pharmaceutical process lines and piping systems deliver high-quality water to their processes. This requires high-quality welds to ensure a source of water from the tubes uncontaminated by bacteria, rust, or other contaminant. Orbital welding ensures full-penetration welds with no overheating that could undermine the corrosion resistance of the final weld zone. Once large enough, a build-up of particulate, moisture, or contaminant could release and ruin the batch process.
Orbital systems provide a means to ensure high productivity of welding and optimum weld quality.
Orbital Welding Equipment Cost Justification Modern automatic orbital welding equipment now makes it affordable for any company doing a small amount of orbital welding to justify its cost. With the availability of leasing programs, not owning one of these systems can actually be costing a company money. An automatic orbital welding system can do the work of at least two skilled manual welders. Below is a breakdown of the cost of two skilled manual welders versus one operator and orbital welding equipment. A welder's basic wages vary somewhat according to geographic location.