Miller agreed that attitude is everything where welding economics is concerned. Then they need to ask fundamental questions about why they do certain things in manufacturing." They need to ask, "What are the total costs?' and then target the big-cost items in the process. "A team has to rally around the process and see what needs to be improved. "We're in a pretty challenging economy, which changes how we manage business," Albrecht said. ( The economy has affected how companies look at all manufacturing processes. He is vice president and general manager of light industrial products at Miller Electric Mfg. "When it's less of a critical factor, they have less of an understanding."Īnother reason this finding might be accurate is that welding is a complicated process with many variables, from the materials welded to the consumables used, and from the joining process selected to the tooling needed, said Bruce Albrecht, who served as an expert on light industrial manufacturing for the study. "For example, heavy industrial or structural manufacturers have a better understanding of the economics associated with welding," Miller said. This assertion is based on how central welding is to a company's manufacturing processes, according to Charles Miller, senior vice president and research director at Insight*MAS, a management consulting firm in Dublin, Ohio ( He was the principal researcher for the study. Most firms have not studied, or have only a minimal understanding of, the economics associated with the use of welding-related processes. Depending on whom you talk to, these findings evoke a different response.ġ. The following seven statements, taken directly from the report, are deemed its major findings.
Manufacturing, Construction, and Mining Industries," a study released last year by the American Welding Society, Miami (AWS, and the Edison Welding Institute, Columbus, Ohio (EWI, The report provides information on welding-related expenses and measurement of welding productivity in the welding-critical industries - automotive, aircraft, aerospace, electronics, medical, light and heavy manufacturing, construction, and capitalized repair and maintenance.īut not all of the major findings apply to these industrial groups in the same way.
Bureau of Labor Statistics are included in "Welding-related Expenditures, Investments, and Productivity Measurement in U.S. Yet many companies haven't studied, or only somewhat understand, the economic impact of the welding-related processes they use every day. had welding-related jobs - and that's not counting self-employed and nonproduction welders. At the same time more than a half million people in the U.S. In the year 2000 manufacturing, construction, and mining industries had $34.1 billion worth of welding-related expenses.
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