Steel Fabrication And Welding

JS MASIX – Fabricated Steel Components

JS MASIX

Your Supplier of Fabricated Steel Components and Welded Assemblies

JS MASIX is a supplier of fabricated steel components and welded assemblies. We work hard to solve your unique design-to-manufacturing challenges and will create the most effective solution for your project.

Specializing in parts that originate from medium to heavy gauge steel plates (1/8” or thicker), we have the skill, expertise, and state-of-the-art equipment to produce complex parts and tight tolerances with precision and accuracy.

Custom Fabrication for High Volume Production

   

JS MASIX

Applications

  • Auto Components Welding Assemblies
  • Construction Equipment
  • Agriculture Equipment
  • Railroad Equipment
  • Material Handling
  • Military & Defence
  • Power Generation
  • Boilers
  • Structural Beams

A Commitment to Quality

JS MASIX offers vertically integrated turnkey manufacturing processes, including extensive in-house processing capabilities. Our fully automated steel fabrication equipment represents the most current in technology. Each facility is ISO 9001:2015 certified, offering significant capacity and manufacturing redundancies. We practice collaboration on new and existing products using our Value-Analysis/Value-Engineering (VA/VE) process. This allows us to validate the manufacturing process prior to production, saving development time, reducing costs, and delivering on schedule every time.  

Welding

   

JS MASIX Welding Capabilities

JS MASIX offers a variety of welding capabilities including TIG and MIG arc welding, laser welding, projection welding, resistance and spot welding, and stud and stick welding. Certified welders and welding inspectors ensure your steel, aluminum, or stainless steel fabricated parts are well-made, tested, and structurally sound. Our experienced teams can accommodate lightweight subassemblies to weldments weighing more than 40,000 lbs. Experience significant savings in your supply chain by transitioning your high labor, multi-stage subassemblies and weldments to JS MASIX.

Welding Methods Explained

MIG Welding

Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding is one of the most versatile processes used to join metals. MIG welding incorporates a shielding gas with a solid electrode wire that is continuously fed into a hand-held MIG torch. The heat produced from an electric arc melts the wire onto the base material, creating a weld pool that fuses them together. Both skilled welders and robotic welding machines perform a variety of MIG welds on steel or stainless steel. This welding method is preferable for thicker material and for fill passes in thick-wall pipe welds.

TIG Welding

TIG or Tungsten Inert Gas welding is ideal for specific penetration on thinner materials requiring precision welds. This welding method incorporates a tungsten electrode arc from the welding torch with a separate metal filler rod. A small, intense arc heats the base metal until it melts, then the filler rod is dipped into the melted pool, and the two pieces begin to join. TIG welding arcs produce less spatter than MIG arcs, offering a good amount of control for the user and a cleaner finish.

Stick Welding

The stick welding method is one of the simplest and most cost-efficient processes of joining materials. A flux-coated rod and the metal workpieces are melted together at one point to form a weld pool. As the pool cools, the joint between the two metals forms a sturdy bond. No shielding gas is needed in this process, which is widely used on steel, aluminum, nickel, and copper alloys. Stick welding tends to create molten splatter, and finished products require more cleaning and sanding than other arc welding methods.

Stud Welding

Stud welding joins a fastener to a metal object or surface by way of an electric arc. As the fastener heats up and the surface area melts, the fastener is manipulated into position, and the weld is formed. There are two types of stud welding: drawn arc and capacitor discharge. Drawn arc welding requires both the fastener and the base material to be heated. Capacitor discharge creates some of the fastest stud welds, using a stud gun to trigger the weld charge and melt the fastener head to the base material simultaneously.

Laser Welding

Laser welding generates a highly concentrated beam of light to produce a metal-to-metal weld with no filler material needed. The beam of light is amplified and directed onto the material seams until they reach a melting point, which fuses the two surfaces together. Gas, solid-state, and fiber are the most common types of laser welding technologies. Each produces a cleaner edge with improved perpendicularity than other forms of flame cutting. The laser welding process is excellent for cutting carbon steel, low alloy steel, aluminum, and stainless-steel material from light gauge to heavier gauge thickness and plate.

Projection Welding

Projection welding is a form of resistance welding that uses pressure and an electrical current to join metal parts. Projections or dimples are manufactured on the base material. As parts are brought together, an electrical current is focused on the projection points, generating heat through an electric pulse in these specific locations. Force is applied from upper and lower plateaus connecting the parts together as the current is applied. Projection welding is commonly used to weld connectors such as bolts, nuts, and screws to base metal parts.

Resistance Spot Welding

Spot welding utilizes a pair of water-cooled copper electrodes to clamp two workpieces together and pass an electric current between them. The electrical resistance of the part material generates enough heat to form a weld nugget that bonds the pieces together. This type of welding is used to manufacture pipe, tubing, and smaller structural sections, and is popular in the automotive industry as well as in other manufacturing products made of thinner gauge materials.  

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