Manufacturing joining problems

Articles about joining problems as they actually present on the shop floor: scrap after a furnace cycle, plates that will not stay flat, joints that fail a leak test, rework that never quite goes away. Each article explains the mechanism first, then what other industries did about it.

Thermal management and heat exchangers

Scrap and yield

Why brazed cold plates scrap

Where the losses come from: whole-part annealing, leak-test yield, and no furnace re-entry for repair.

Repair

Repairing a failed brazed heat exchanger

When the part cannot go back in the furnace, and which failures are worth assessing.

Comparing joining routes directly? See alternatives to vacuum brazing.

A scrap problem you already have Send the drawing, alloy and leak specification. The first question is joint reachability.

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