Solution for fabricating tanks and pressure vessels

The development of the energy, oil, and petrochemical industries has led to an increasing demand for large-sized steel structures with high thickness and harsh working conditions. From wind power towers, power plant structures; equipment support frames, pipe racks, skids, and technology modules; to steel structures serving oil and petrochemical projects, each product group imposes strict requirements on manufacturing precision, load-bearing capacity, welding joint quality, and stability during operation.

In particular, many components in this field use thick steel plates, large sizes, long weld lengths, and a high proportion of load-bearing welds. Therefore, manufacturing quality depends not only on individual equipment but also on the ability to synchronously control the entire process from preparing billets, cutting and edge preparation, assembly, welding, surface treatment to production data management.

Weldcom provides an ecosystem of solutions for producing steel structures in the energy and oil sectors in that direction, combining processing equipment, high-productivity welding technology, robots, and automation to simultaneously meet quality, output, and project schedule requirements.

Diverse production of structures for various energy sub-sectors

Unlike production lines specializing in a highly repetitive group of components, the energy and oil sectors include various types of structures differing in size, cross-section, and manufacturing methods: heavy beams and columns, box structures, equipment support frames, pipe racks, skids, structural modules, tubular structures, and auxiliary steel components.

Specifically, in the wind power sector, tubular components with large diameters require specialized welding equipment, adaptability to billet diameters, and stable control of long welds. Bruco has developed specialized welding gantries for processing tubular billets with diameters from 4,000 to 14,000 mm.

Therefore, Weldcom's solution is built with flexibility in billet size, material thickness, component profile, and welding technology, helping businesses organize production of multiple product groups on the same technology platform.

Precise processing of thick steel plates and standardizing connections from the start

For energy and oil structures, the quality of the weld depends greatly on the precision of the billets and the connection preparation process. Dimensional deviations, bevel angles, or assembly gaps right from the cutting stage will increase adjustment time, filler metal volume, welding deformation, and processing workload in subsequent stages.

Weldcom provides steel plate processing solutions from CNC cutting to high-power laser cutting, serving thick and ultra-thick materials. Bevel cutting head configurations support various edge types V, I, X, Y, K, with bevel angles up to 45°, combined with machine vision alignment and automatic deviation compensation.

Accurate control of detail geometry and edge connections from the start helps stabilize the assembly process, control weld gaps, and lay the foundation for subsequent automatic welding technologies.

High-productivity welding technology for large structures and thick steel

Welding is one of the stages that determine the productivity of energy and oil structure manufacturing plants. Heavy beams, box structures, and components with large thickness often concentrate a large amount of filler metal, while requirements for penetration, weld shape, and input heat control are increasingly high.

Weldcom deploys automatic SAW solutions, Tandem SAW, Triple Arc, and Tandem ICE suitable for each structure group. Among them, Tandem ICE combines current-carrying welding wire with cold wire feeding to increase speed and deposition productivity while maintaining low line energy.

This technology direction is particularly suitable for components with long welds, large cross-sections, and high thickness, where the challenge is not only to "weld faster" but also to balance deposition productivity, penetration, input heat, and structural deformation.

Production flow control for projects with high schedule requirements

Energy and oil projects often have large fabrication volumes, heavy components, multiple stages, and delivery requirements by module or assembly phase. As scale increases, overall productivity no longer depends solely on the speed of cutting or welding machines but on the ability to coordinate processing, assembly, billet transportation, welding, and finishing.

Weldcom develops solutions by integrating equipment with transportation, flipping, and billet transfer systems, while connecting production data with SCADA/MES on suitable devices. Bruco's welding systems have integrated Ethernet/IP to serve data monitoring and connect production management systems.

This approach helps businesses better control equipment status, progress of each stage, and operational efficiency, while reducing waiting time between steps in the production line.

A technology platform for the energy and oil sectors

From wind power structures; power plant structures; industrial frames, beams, and modules; to structures serving oil and petrochemicals, the production challenge converges on four main requirements: precise processing of large-sized materials and thick steel – controlling weld joint quality – enhancing manufacturing productivity – organizing efficient production flow.

Instead of focusing on a single piece of equipment, Weldcom approaches the challenge through the entire technology chain from billet preparation → processing → edge preparation → assembly → automatic/robotic welding → surface treatment → production management.

Through this, businesses producing steel structures build a technology platform that meets increasingly high technical requirements for projects, while enhancing their capability to participate more deeply in the supply chain of the energy, wind power, oil, and petrochemical industries.