Nextweld® Solutions from Lincoln Electric® capture the imagination of combining Lincoln Technologies, products and processes to
create the welding industry's ultimate innovation.

Nextweld® benefits are dramatic and immediate -

• Higher quality welds
• Simplified process selection
• Better arc control
• Reduced reliance on operator skill
• Higher deposition rates
• Improved productivity

Nextweld® changes everything about welding through Waveform Control Technology®, power electronics, and digital communications. But the most important change Nextweld® offers is simply this: Nextweld® helps reduce the cost of fabrication, and improves fabrication's profit potential.

Waveform Control Technology® is Lincoln Electric's technology that offers a welding arc with characteristics to precisely match the welding task at hand.

Waveform Control Technology® enables you to -

• Quickly and easily adapt a single machine such as those in Lincoln's Power Wave® line to a wide range of welding material specs, weld positions, and strength requirements.
• Use a single welding system to perform stick, TIG, MIG, flux-cored, and submerged arc welding procedures.

As the library of pre-programmed weld "modes" continues to expand, you can upgrade your existing Waveform Control Technology® system through Lincoln's PowerWaveSoftware.com web site.

The days of configuring different systems to make different welds are over.

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Power electronics components such as those used in lightweight inverters and high-speed choppers are utilized by Nextweld® to provide fabricators with a highly efficient, flexible and high performance welding system that can adapt to new operations.

• Compact and Portable - smaller transformers, chokes, and rectifiers give the inverter equivalent power to traditional machines, without the added size and weight. For example; four Invertec® V350-PRO weigh as much as one CV-305.
• Fast Response to Welding Arc - digital controls regulate the output very accurately so the welding performance is consistent from machine to machine.
• Universal Input Voltage - most inverters can run on any AC power supply that supplies between 208 to 575 volts.
• Efficient - the smaller chokes and transformers of the inverter yield an efficiency rating of 87% to 90%, which means the inverter consumes less energy to convert the same amount of input power as traditional welding machines.

Reliability and quality will exceed your expectations -

• Lincoln® manufacturers its own integrated modules, which allows us to optimize each module for reliability and performance.
• All PC boards are trayed and potted, transformers and chokes are double-dipped in protective varnish, and harness connections are made with locking pins and sealed for protection against extreme environmental conditions.
• All electrical components are designed to operate at voltages lower than their rated voltages and temperatures below their rated temperatures for added reliability.
• Testing during product design includes environmental stress screening, vibration, drop and infrared thermal analysis. Weld test, dielectric, burn-in cycle, and output range are some of the tests performed during product build.

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Digital communication is a faster, more reliable method of data transfer compared to analog. Nextweld's digital communication offers industry a faster, less expensive, more reliable way to integrate and operate equipment.

• Speed of Performance - delays are reduced, allowing more data to be transferred in less time.
• Flexibility/Scalability - new features can be added to existing equipment through software upgrades from PowerWaveSoftware.com, and new components can be easily added to an existing welding cell.
• Process Controls - all weld process controls are accessible from a single user interface control panel.
• Power Wave Utilities - industry leading tools to configure, troubleshoot, and collect and monitor weld data to ensure the fastest, easiest and most reliable welding system.

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