Marine & shipbuilding

Marine & shipbuilding welding automation

Marine fabrication demands welds that hold up in the harshest environment on earth: saltwater, vibration, zero tolerance for failure. The Cobot Welder delivers repeatable MIG and pulsed MIG on marine-grade steel, stainless, and aluminum, and went up to 10× faster than manual TIG on U.S. Navy exhaust systems.

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MARINE — NAVY-GRADE WELDS

800+

Shops running Beacon

Up to 10×

Faster than manual TIG

1 job

Paid for the entire cobot

20 min

From setup to first weld

Sound familiar?

The problems slowing your floor down

Skilled marine welders are almost impossible to find

Clean TIG and MIG on stainless, aluminum, and marine alloys (often in tight spaces) is the scarcest trade in the industry. Orders stack up, deadlines slip, and you turn down work you should be winning.

Manual welding can't keep up with your backlog

Long seams, repetitive joints, tight tolerances. When a fleet contract or Coast Guard order surges, manual welding becomes the bottleneck, and a missed delivery can cost the account.

You've tried automation before and it didn't work

Parts sent out came back below your standards; robotic cells couldn't handle your mix of assemblies and materials. Marine fab is too varied and precise for most automation.

How it works

How cobot automation fits your workflow

Program your first marine weld in minutes

Open Beacon, touch the joints on your assembly, set wire speed, voltage, travel, and weave. DeAngelo Marine's CEO was welding like a pro within 20 minutes of setup: no G-code, no robotics background.

Run production at up to 10× manual TIG speed

DeAngelo went from 2–5 inches per minute hand-TIG to 20 with the Cobot Welder, on Navy exhaust systems that demand flawless quality. Your welders shift to fit-up, inspection, and critical joints.

Save every part, recall it instantly

The next order for the same exhaust system or hull section? Pull up the saved program and start welding: zero reprogramming, seconds to switch between assemblies.