Steelmax and Preston Eastin Showcasing the Integrated Pipe Welding System in Las Vegas at Fabtech 2026

The IPWS delivers pipe positioning, manipulation, programmable oscillation, and welding power in a single turnkey system. Steelmax Tools and Preston Eastin, members of the SMX Industrial Solutions family of companies, have introduced the turnkey Integrated Pipe Welding System (IPWS). This collaborative pipe and vessel welding solution is built for fabricators who need consistent weld performance with less rework and a highly productive welding process. The IPWS brings the right tools together in a single integrated system. It eliminates the fabricators’ common challenge of sourcing a manipulator from one supplier, a positioner from another, and a welding system from a third, then hoping everything works together. The IPWS provides a simpler solution: one system, one delivery, and pure productivity. The IPWS is engineered for pipe and vessel fabrication environments where reliability, repeatability, speed, and quality are not luxuries, but requirements. Ideal applications include data center piping, oil and gas pipe fabrication, power plant construction, shipyards, and heavy equipment manufacturing.

The IPWS is available in four standard configurations, each of which can be ordered as a single SKU. Each standard IPWS includes: (i) a powered X-Y Manipulator (either 4’ x 4’ or 6’ x 6’), (ii) either a 3,000-pound PE 30 Tilt-Rotate Positioner or a 5,000-pound HE-50 Elevating Headstock (with two jackstands), (iii) Steelmax End of Arm Torch Control with
Linear Oscillation, and (iv) the complete Miller PipeWorx 400 welding system. Optional tactile seam tracking can be added to any IPWS system.
Completely custom IPWS configurations are also available to address unique fabrication challenges.