The Fabricator - January 2016

welding education and career pathways in welding and advanced manufacturing. Lincoln Electric also will dedicate resources to support welding training for veterans at this facility.

Construction is expected to begin in early 2016, with an opening anticipated in 2017—marking the centennial anniversary of Lincoln’s legacy welding school. The new 130,000-sq.- ft. center will double the company’s welding education capacity to 180 welding booths and will include classroom and seminar spaces. It will also showcase and integrate the manufacturer’s technologies and systems into a comprehensive welding curriculum.

Miller Electric Mfg. Co., a manufacturer of arc welding products in Appleton, Wis., has announced its acquisition of Impact Eng. of Jackson, Mich., a manufacturer of weld data monitoring systems.

Impact Eng. has previously partnered with Miller on welding information product development. As part of the acquisition, Impact Eng.’s products, including ARCAgent™ and ARClient®, will become part of the Miller Welding Intelligence™ product offering.

This product offering currently includes Insight Core™, a
simplified, Internet-based welding information system, and
Insight Centerpoint™, which offers advanced, real-time opera-
tor feedback and process controls. The
product additions from Impact Eng.,
specifically ARCAgent, will allow us-
ers with mixed fleets of welding equip-
ment, including non-Miller machines,
to use the Welding Intelligence systems.

The Impact Eng. company name will phase out at a future date.

Nidec Minster Corp., a manufacturer of material forming presses and automation equipment based in Minster, Ohio, has received the RIA Certified Robot Integrator designation. To become certified, the company completed a rigorous process that included an on-site audit and testing of key personnel.

RIA requires each certified integrator to be recertified every two years. For more information on the certification program, visit www.robotics.org/inte grator-certification.

OMAX® Corp. has increased the capacity of its training center in Kent, Wash., for OMAX and MAXIEM® JetMa-chining® Center owners. The 22,000-sq.- ft. training center features a new technology-training classroom that supplements an existing equipment-training lab.

The new classroom provides additional space for training that takes customers step by step through the process of making parts, including the use of the company’s Intelli-MAX® software suite. They also receive hands-on experience in operating and maintaining the abrasive waterjet machines.

Dayton, Ohio-based Prime Controls Inc. has been named to the Inc.

500/5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. based on overall three-year revenue growth.

Ranked at No. 4,714, this is the company’s third consecutive year on the list.

The company is a supplier of double-metal-sheet detectors.

At Schuler’s Cedual vocational training center in Puebla, Mexico, the first group of apprentices have received their leaving certificates. The newly qualified industrial and tool mechanics all passed their German Chamber of Commerce and Industry exam. They are the first skilled workers in Mexico to have completed a three-year apprenticeship based on the German dual education standard.

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