HIREBOTICS FOR MARINE & SHIPBUILDING
Marine & Shipbuilding Welding Automation
Marine fabrication demands welds that hold up in the harshest environment on earth — saltwater, vibration, and zero tolerance for failure. The Hirebotics Cobot Welder delivers repeatable MIG and pulsed MIG welding on marine-grade steel, stainless, and aluminum, programs from a smartphone, and went 10x faster than manual TIG on U.S. Navy exhaust systems. No robotics experience required.
600+
Fabrication shops using Hirebotics
10x
Faster than manual TIG welding
1 job
Paid for the entire Cobot
20 min
From setup to first weld
Sound Familiar?
Skilled Marine Welders Are Almost Impossible to Find
Marine welding requires certified welders who can run clean TIG and MIG on stainless steel, aluminum, and marine-grade alloys — often in tight spaces and awkward positions. Those welders are the scarcest trade in the industry. Every unfilled position is capacity you’re leaving on the table. Orders are stacking up, deadlines are slipping, and you’re turning down work you should be winning.
Manual Welding Can’t Keep Up with Your Backlog
Marine assemblies have long seams, repetitive joints, and tight tolerances that take hours to weld by hand. When your order volume surges — a fleet contract, a Coast Guard order, a yacht build season — manual welding becomes the bottleneck. Your best welders are stretched thin running the same welds all day while the backlog grows. Miss a delivery date and you risk losing the account entirely.
You’ve Tried Automation Before and It Didn’t Work
Maybe you’ve sent parts to welding automation companies and they came back below your standards. Maybe you looked at robotic cells and they couldn’t handle your mix of assemblies, materials, and weld types. Marine fabrication is too varied and too precise for most automation solutions. You need something that delivers robotic speed without sacrificing the craftsmanship your customers expect.
How it works
How Cobot Welding Works for Marine Fabrication
01
Program Your First Marine Weld in Minutes
Open the Beacon app on your phone, touch the weld joints on your marine assembly, and set your parameters — wire speed, voltage, travel speed, weave pattern. The cobot handles MIG and pulsed MIG on stainless steel, aluminum, and carbon steel with the precision marine fabrication demands. DeAngelo Marine’s CEO was welding like a pro within 20 minutes of setup — no teach pendant, no G-code, no robotics background required.
02
Run Production at 10x the Speed of Manual TIG
Once programmed, the cobot delivers consistent, repeatable welds at speeds manual welding can’t touch. DeAngelo Marine went from 2 inches per minute with TIG to 20 inches per minute with the Cobot Welder — on U.S. Navy exhaust systems that demand flawless quality. Your marine welders shift from repetitive seam work to complex fit-up, inspection, and the critical joints that need their hands-on expertise.
03
Save Every Job, Recall It Instantly for the Next Order
Every weld program saves in Beacon and recalls instantly. When the next order for the same exhaust system, hull section, or structural assembly comes in, pull up the saved program and start welding — zero reprogramming. Switching between assemblies? Recall a different program in seconds. That’s what makes cobot welding viable for shipyard and marine fabrication — you get the speed of automation with the flexibility to handle your full range of marine work.
See How Marine Fabricators Scale with Hirebotics
10x
Weld Speed vs. Manual TIG
1 Job = Full ROI
Coast Guard Order Paid for the System
7 cobots
Planned Across the Shop Floor
“Twenty minutes after setup, I was welding like I’d been running robots my whole life.”
Justin Montes
CEO of DeAngelo Marine Exhaust
your Full-Shop automation partner
What We Automate for Marine Fabricators
Hirebotics cobots handle the repetitive processes that bottleneck marine and shipbuilding fabrication — welding, cutting, and coating — all controlled from the Beacon app. No robot programmers. No teach pendants. One platform for your entire shop floor.
MIG Welding for Marine Assemblies, Hulls & Structural Components
The Cobot Welder is built for the precision and speed marine fabrication demands: exhaust systems, hull sections, deck assemblies, brackets, and structural frames. It handles MIG and pulsed MIG on stainless steel, aluminum, and carbon steel — and went 10x faster than manual TIG on U.S. Navy exhaust systems at DeAngelo Marine. Program from the Beacon app, save the job, and recall it for every production run.
Marine Coatings, Anti-Corrosion & Protective Finishes
Nothing destroys steel faster than saltwater. The Cobot Painter automates marine coating application — primers, anti-corrosion treatments, and protective topcoats — with consistent coverage and minimal overspray. Roll it into a spray booth, coat your assemblies, and roll it back out. No permanent install. Ideal for shops applying repetitive coating cycles to marine components before they ship to the yard.
Plasma Cutting for Plates, Brackets & Structural Parts
Marine fabrication starts with cut parts. The Cobot Cutter delivers clean, repeatable plasma cuts on sheet and plate steel — hull plates, brackets, gussets, mounting hardware. Hand-guide the torch through a path once, and the system records and automates it for every part after. Shops report rework dropping from 25% to nearly zero. No CAD/CAM programming required.
Beacon App — Weld, Cut & Paint from Your Phone
Every Hirebotics cobot runs on the same Beacon platform. Your team learns one interface and applies it across welding, cutting, and painting. Real-time monitoring, saved job programs, and 24/7 in-app support come standard. Start with one cobot welder on your highest-volume marine assembly and expand from there — DeAngelo Marine is planning seven cobots across their shop floor.
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Ready to Automate Your Marine Fabrication?
See how the Hirebotics Cobot Welder can speed up production on marine assemblies, exhaust systems, and structural components — without the complexity of traditional robotic welding cells or the risk of falling behind on fleet and contract deadlines.
