Invented in 1999.
Still the benchmark.
TIP TIG did not adapt someone else’s process. We created it — and we have been refining it in Austria ever since.
From selling welding gear
to rewriting the process.
Siegfried Plasch founded a company in Upper Austria trading welding supplies and fume-extraction systems. For years he sold to workshops, serviced their equipment, and listened to the same complaint everywhere: TIG delivers the quality — and costs you the schedule.
So he stopped selling other people’s answers and built his own: a mechanical wire oscillation that moves the filler wire in the weld pool. It was the first step towards TIG quality at production speed — and the oscillation is still the core of every TIP TIG system built today.
The oscillation was refined and combined with a separately heated hot wire. That combination is TIP TIG as it runs in workshops around the world today.
Emily Craig and Tom O’Mally brought TIP TIG to the USA, Canada and Australia.
Often copied. Never matched.
If it doesn’t say TIP TIG®, it isn’t TIP TIG.
TIP TIG is a registered trademark. The name — and the wire dynamics behind it — were developed in Krenglbach, Austria, and are built there to this day.
How to recognize
genuine hot wire TIG.
Not every system sold as “hot wire” does what the original does. Six things worth checking before you sign — whatever name is on the front panel.
Genuine mechanical wire oscillation
The filler wire is physically moved in the weld pool by a mechanical drive — not simulated by pulsing the current. Ask to see the mechanism running.
Four drive rolls
Four rolls hold consistent feed pressure across every wire diameter. Two-roll feeders slip under load, and slip shows up in the bead.
Separate low-voltage hot wire source
A dedicated source preheats the filler wire close to its melting point before it enters the pool. That is what lifts deposition without lifting heat input.
No secondary arc
The tungsten keeps full control of the primary arc. If the filler wire strikes an arc of its own, you are looking at a different process.
Universal compatibility
A genuine system connects to any standard TIG power source. If it only runs on one manufacturer’s machine, you are buying a lock-in, not a process.
Reproducible deposition rate
Deposition must be verifiable under defined, repeatable conditions — 4 kg/h (8.8 lbs/hr) and well beyond, depending on the application. Ask for the test parameters, not just the headline figure.
Common questions about the original
Who invented dynamic wire TIG welding?
Is every hot wire TIG system the same?
How can I tell a genuine TIP TIG system?
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