How robotic welding helped steel production and construction

Today, there are sev­er­al met­al indus­tries that use robot­ic weld­ing, and the steel and con­struc­tion indus­tries are no dif­fer­ent. But, it has not always been that way.

Over the last cou­ple of decades, indus­tries have shift­ed from man­u­al welders to robot­ic weld­ing cells due to high­er depo­si­tion rates, high qual­i­ty fin­ished welds, and less work­er error.

One con­struc­tion com­pa­ny, ConX­tech, decid­ed all the way back in 2000 to use robot­ic weld cells to help con­struct their mid-rise res­i­den­tial struc­tures that use steel frames. Fanuc and Lin­coln Elec­tric prod­ucts became vital to that company’s suc­cess by hav­ing the right reach and accu­ra­cy for the job – plates that required full-pen­e­tra­tion welds on the top and bot­tom flanges and fil­let welds on the beam’s web and the back of the flanges.

In 2006, LB Steel/​Coburn, a man­u­fac­tur­er of many steel prod­ucts for rail­way and oth­er indus­tries, decid­ed it was time for new robot­ic welders to help their process. The com­pa­ny imple­ment­ed three Motoman weld­ing cells to accom­mo­date their larg­er vol­ume of prod­ucts, cut­ting down the weld­ing time from 12 hours man­u­al­ly to 2 – 3 hours robotically.

These com­pa­nies, as well as oth­ers, have real­ized that weld­ing robot­ics has height­ened accu­ra­cy and reli­a­bil­i­ty, as well as increased repeata­bil­i­ty, which speeds up the process, sav­ing the man­u­fac­tur­ers time and money.

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