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In choosing the right welding process for an application like welded tube manufacturing, the manufacturing engineers have to take into account a large number of selection criteria. Choosing the right welding process for any application is difficult not only due to multiple factors affecting the decision but also due to a number of emerging new welding techniques becoming available as alternatives. Some of the alternative welding processes for manufacturing tubes have been Fretz-Moon process (FM), low-frequency (LF) as well as high-frequency (HF) alternating current resistance welding, direct current (DC)-based resistance welding in addition to gas metal arc welding (GMAW), and submerged arc welding (SAW) in some specific applications. A systematic examination of the decision situation may lead us to an appropriate choice rather than basing the decision on one factor or the other in stand-alone manner. This paper presents an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)- based decision analysis for the selection of welding process in a case of manufacturing small diameter steel tubes.
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Saluja, R.S., Singh, V. (2019). Subjective Factors Consideration in the Selection of Welding Technique for Welded Tube Manufacturing. In: Narayanan, R., Joshi, S., Dixit, U. (eds) Advances in Computational Methods in Manufacturing. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9072-3_18
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