Benefits of Welding Automation

Weld­ing is a per­fect appli­ca­tion to auto­mate with robots. Even skilled human welders still make mis­takes that impact prod­uct qual­i­ty and increase cost. Human labor also has lim­i­ta­tions in terms of how quick­ly a job can be pre­formed, which can increase prod­uct cycle time and cost.

In light of the lim­its of human welders, the ben­e­fits of weld­ing automa­tion are obvi­ous. Mod­ern weld­ing robots have very high lev­els of dex­ter­i­ty, mobil­i­ty, and accu­ra­cy. These attrib­ut­es allow a mod­ern robot to weld a com­plex part with mul­ti­ple weld­ing seams with a very high lev­el of qual­i­ty over and over. Mod­ern weld­ing robots can also be equipped with touch and vision sen­sors to per­form con­sis­tent high-qual­i­ty welds while mon­i­tor­ing the qual­i­ty of their own work. This allows near­ly every unit weld­ed to be qual­i­ty checked which is an impor­tant indi­rect ben­e­fit of weld­ing automa­tion. Nor­mal­ly, human qual­i­ty con­trol can only check small batch­es of prod­ucts and may miss errors on unchecked prod­ucts. Robots doing their own qual­i­ty con­trol would catch these errors or not even make them in the first place.

Advanced weld­ing robots like the Kuka KR-16, Fanuc ARC Mate, or Motoman MA1400 have extreme­ly adapt­able end-of-arm-tool­ing (EOAT) that can quick­ly change to dif­fer­ent kinds of weld­ing imple­ments. This ben­e­fit of auto­mat­ed welders allows few­er robots to do more kinds of jobs, decreas­ing over­all cost while increas­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Mod­ern weld­ing robots also have 5 or even 6 axes of move­ment, enabling them to reach to all areas of a prod­uct and per­form del­i­cate, com­pli­cat­ed welds. They are able to work at the same or high­er qual­i­ty of a skilled human welder, only more quick­ly. Weld­ing robots have made great strides in capa­bil­i­ty while keep­ing unit costs low, allow­ing even medi­um or small sized busi­ness­es to ben­e­fit from automat­ing their weld­ing oper­a­tions. Robots​.com is unique­ly equipped and qual­i­fied to help you find the right robot for your weld­ing needs. Con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.