Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Defence, inaugurated the HAL’s Manned Chamber Welding (MCW) shop.
The Indian MCW system at HAL offers both robotic and human (manual) welding in argon atmosphere while the Russian welding is carried out only manually.
In this robotic system, HAL does welding of 17 major modules of Sukhoi engine. The welding is of high quality and free of defects.
The entire outer casing module of the engine is welded inside this chamber. The welder working inside has all life support and health monitoring features. The facility is located at HAL’s Koraput (Sunabeda) unit in Odisha.
The Indian equipment has been developed indigenously by HAL with help of other vendors.
Published on May 12, 2013
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