RWMA Resistance Welding School
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Tuesday 7:45 AM – 5:30 PM and Wednesday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Member AWS, FMA, SME, NAM, or PMA: $475
Nonmembers: $695 • Registration Code: W30
Chair: Bruce Kelly, President, Kelly Welding Solutions, Grand Ledge, Mich.
Room N230a
This two-day resistance welding school is sponsored by the American Welding Society and the Resistance Welding Manufacturing Alliance, and conducted by industry specialists. The basics of resistance welding and real-life application of the process are covered. Participants learn at their own pace and discuss specific welding concerns with the instructors. You are invited to bring your own samples for discussion.
Please plan to be present for both days of the school. The program is limited to 100 students. The registration fee includes a copy of the Resistance Welding Manual, Revised Fourth Edition (a $125 value) and a course binder containing all instructor presentations. Participants will also receive a certificate of completion. In addition, there will be tabletop exhibits both days, demonstrating the latest resistance welding products offered by RWMA-member companies.
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Program Events Day 2
- Sign-in
- 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
- Welding Processes & Machines
- 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
- Tim Foley, Sr. Applications Engineer, Automation International, Inc., Danville, IL
- This session will reinforce the very essence of how the resistance welding process works and how the process relates to each of the four resistance welding processes. This session will be full of application examples from each process and how machinery utilizes the individual components and elements illustrated in the other sessions.
- Basics of Resistance Welding Video – Part II
- 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
- Troubleshooting and Maintenance
- 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
- Bruce Kelly, President, Kelly Welding Solutions, Grand Ledge, MI
- With over 30 years experience in the auto industry, specifying, installing and troubleshooting resistance welding systems, Bruce Kelly will give you tips on how to find the reasons why welds don’t turn out the way you would like. This presentation is filled with real life examples of problems that baffled maintenance persons.
- Initial Machine Set-up
- 1:45 PM – 3:45 PM
- Robert Matteson, Director – Product Development, Taylor-Winfield, Inc., Brookfield, OH
- Robert Matteson takes you through the selection and maintenance procedures of proper weld schedules and preventive maintenance programs designed to make your resistance welding operations profitable. Hands-on demonstrations peak this presentation.
- LUNCH SERVED & TABLETOP EXHIBITS
- 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM
- Question and Answer Session
- 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
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