Needless to say, technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) are revolutionising the way we live, we conceive information and we communicate with each other. This was just already predicted by scientists like Nikola Tesla, who envisioned in the year 1926 “a device that would allow us to communicate instantly over any distance, seeing and hearing one…
Dangerous fumes, fires or explosions, welding exposes everyone to similar health and safety risks and hazards. We can avoid accidents and injuries in the workshop if we follow the best welding safety practices and we use the appropriate safety equipment. Here are 10 tips for improving your welding safety: 1.- Identify the hazards and the…
Korea is more than committed to embrace new technologies in the educational field and to introduce Augmented Reality (AR) in the welding training programs around the country, as part of the digitalization process. For that reason, from July 31 to August 4th, 2017 the Wonju Campus of Korea Polytechnics has held the course ‘Welding Training…
We call ‘Milennials’ to the generation of people who reached adulthood after the year 2000. Other definitions date the starting of this generation in the early 1980’s, that is people wo were born between 1982 and 2004. This can be found in the book Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991), written…
Welding training is expensive, it takes time for students to acquire the skills needed for this trade and sometimes it can be unmotivating for them. That’s why the Colombian National Training Service (servicion Nacional de Aprendizaje, SENA) held a workshop titled ‘Simulation in Welding Training’ in which students and current welding instructors were able to try…
Pipe welding is agreed by several experts to be one of the most difficult skills when learning to weld. Many students quit the training and move to work in another welding works unaware of the benefits and advantages pipe welding can bring them. Here are some benefits of becoming a pipe welder or pipefitter: 1.Master welding…
Augmented Reality welding has been one of the main topics in the context of two events the: the 70th IIW Annual Assembly & International Conference and the 2017 Beijing Essen Welding & Cutting Fair (BEW) held in the Chinese city of Shangai. In a series of talks about welding skills training and qualification, three different…
In the digital era, new technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) have started to play a key role in several sectors. Education is one of the most permeable and influenced. Since students have more and more access to loads of information, traditional lectures are just not enough for fostering their motivation and curiosity. Here are some…
Asahi Electronics has been at the Tokyo 3D&Virtual Reality (IVR) Expo introducing the potential of Augmented Reality welding to help Japanese government and industry attract and qualify locally the workforce demanded for the next years, with global scale impact projects like the next Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020. For, Yoshikatsu Iseki, expert welder at Asahi Kokusai Techneion…
The history of women in welding started as a female labour revolution which took place during World War II. American women were needed to work for their country in a variety of positions. So, for the first time, because of male enlistment, they moved from domestic works to enter the workforce in unprecedent numbers, taking…
