Welding Department – Bedeku Technical Institute

Welding involves the joining of metal pieces together. welding can also include glass and thermoplastics but, for the most part, people often associate welding with metals only. Welders merge metals as part of fabrication process.

The term fabrication refers to the larger group of tasks involved in making metal products. It includes the whole manufacturing process, from designing products to their final states. Fabricators are responsible for taking product concepts and utilizing any number of complex procedures to turn the vision into metallic reality, and one of those highly skilled procedure is welding.

At Bedeku Technical Institute, you are trained as fabricator and a competent welder. Here a student’s may be enrolled primarily as welder and fabricator but shall also learn the task of cutting, bending, shaping and finishing metal work.

There are two main welding processes you learn at Bedeku Technical Institute, thus Fusion Welding and Solid State Welding

Here are the main welding processes one can find in the metal fabrication industry:

Shielded Metal arc welding: This is the most common welding process; it involves an electric current and consumable welding rod that acts as a filler between the surfaces being joined

Oxy – acetylene Welding: this as another common welding process that involves the combining a tank of oxygen and a tank of acetylene through a torch nozzle. This flame heats the mental whiles a filler rod allows metal fusion.

Tungsten inert gas welding: this is a “two-hand” procedure that involves the use of a non-consumable tungsten electrode to create the weld.

Gas metal arc welding: this is a wire-feed welding method with a consumable rod fed from a continuous spool of electrode wire.