Strategies For Automating A Welding Job
Brief Summary:
- Automation can reduce time and costs-to-manufacture while improving quality and efficiency, but implementing automation for welding requires strategic planning, and evaluating the job and the expected outcome.
- And, it requires the right employees and a good robotics company or integrator if it is going to achieve the goals set out for it.
- Especially if the automation includes a shop's first robotic welding cell.
- And will automating welding operations help you be more competitive?
- Motoman produces robots with reaches to 10 ft. But, as parts get bigger, the system costs more.
- That is the reason that evaluating the part size is critical when making the decision to automate.
- Robots today are more versatile than years ago, and we're selling a 6-axis robot that gives us great versatility," Jacobson said.
- Anderson added that while the robot is flexible enough to handle a variety of jobs in a production job shop setting, the key is to also implement an easy toolchange system.
- People working on the manufacturing floor can be a wealth of information on how jobs are currently being done and can be extremely helpful in developing the automation.
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