The skilled-welder shortage is real, but your deadline isn't moving. The Fab Doctor pairs the world's best welding and cutting automation to give your shop up to 5× the output of manual labor, with the repeatable consistency that wins the next bid.
The American Welding Society projects the U.S. will need roughly 330,000 new welding professionals by 2028, with only two workers entering for every five who retire. Automation closes the gap the hiring market can't.
Up to five times the output of a manual, two-welder shop – one operator per cell.
Mechanized, repeatable welds. Inspection-ready quality on every shift, not "good on a good day."
Built to meet or beat aggressive project windows when go-live dates carry penalties.
New welders the U.S. needs by 2028 (AWS). The shortage automation is built to answer.
Every fabricated part travels the same road. We automate the three stages in the middle, where your schedule and margin are won or lost, and leave the bookends to your line.
Smart 3D profiling & bevel prep, round and square.
Precise fit-up and positioning for a repeatable root.
Automated root, fill & cap. ASME-ready, every joint.
The stages between Cut and Weld are where schedules slip and margin leaks. Automate the middle, and the whole job moves.
Twelve platforms across three partners: automated welding, precision profiling and heavy handling. Pick a machine to see what it does and how it performs.
Rotoweld, LJ Welding and HGG each make world-class equipment: a curated network of the best welding and cutting automation on earth. The Fab Doctor's advice is vendor-neutral: we match the right combination to your job, with one expert accountable from first quote to commissioning.
The pipe-spool welding robot: 35 years proven, PerfectPass-iQ™, up to a 400% productivity increase on 2"–48" spools.
rotoweld.comThe material-handling backbone: positioners, turning rolls, grow lines and the Pipe Titan system, up to 60,000-lb capacity.
ljwelding.comThe original pipe-profiling pioneers: CNC cutting of pipe, box, beam, profile and vessel heads with smart, fit-up-ready weld prep.
hgg-group.comRotoweld, LJ Welding and HGG are independent, family- and founder-led businesses, not faceless corporations. That heritage shows up where it counts: partners who stand behind their machines for the long haul, share your values, and pick up the phone. When you work with The Fab Doctor, you're buying into relationships, not just equipment.
Every vertical has a different bottleneck. We match exactly one automation capability to each, so you start where it moves the needle for you.
500–1,200 chilled-water spools per facility, all on a penalty-backed clock. Automated welding runs stations in parallel and turns a 120-day spool program into 40.
Large-bore, heavy-wall pressure pipe with zero margin for a bad joint. Automated orbital welding delivers ASME Section IX consistency at deposition rates a manual crew can't touch.
Hygienic, critical-service stainless lines demand flawless, contamination-free welds. Automated GTAW holds thin-wall precision that passes the strictest medical-gas and process specs.
Miles of beam, box and profile to cut, cope and bevel before a single weld. Smart CNC profiling turns days of manual layout and grinding into a repeatable, fit-up-ready cut.
From flight-critical assemblies to 60"+ grow-line pipe with 2" walls, the weld is only as good as the handling under it. High-torque positioning keeps massive parts turning smoothly and precisely.
Tell us your product, profile mix and timeline. Rick will map the one capability that unlocks your schedule first.
Talk to RickRun more weld stations in parallel, cut crane picks and manual repositioning, and hold consistent, inspection-ready quality across every shift: throughput your schedule can bank on.
You're not the test case. Shops across North America have put this equipment to work and reported the results.
Kg per arc-hour with the Rotoweld is about 4× greater than with a manual process. And don't worry – it'll pass RT.
When you get used to a low rework rate like we have with the Rotoweld, you can't go back.
From having five or six guys processing parts that take 10 minutes each, to a single operator machine that's doing them in 40 seconds, is kind of a no brainer.
The HGG is the heartbeat of the shop. It drives what gets done on a daily basis.
LJ took the bull by the horns and challenged themselves to get the job done. Communication was open, honest, transparent, all the way through.
LJ Welding Automation consistently displays a high degree of integrity, excellent customer service, and technical expertise… their equipment has become the standard within our company division.
Results reported by fabricators running the Rotoweld, LJ Welding and HGG platforms The Fab Doctor represents. Rick's own customer references are available on request.
Rick founded The Fab Doctor on a simple diagnosis: the industry is short on skilled welders and long on deadlines, and the cure is the right automation, prescribed by someone who knows the shop floor.
He represents Rotoweld, LJ Welding and HGG across North America, helping fabricators in every vertical turn the labor shortage into a competitive advantage. Understand the job, prescribe what fits, stay accountable from quote to commissioning.
Tell Rick your industry, profile mix, part count and timeline, and get the right automation path back. The earlier we talk, the more schedule we save.