Lincoln Electric working with Fanuc for robot wire feeding

Robot­ic weld­ing is a com­mon process in sev­er­al man­u­fac­tur­ing fields world­wide. Met­al prod­ucts are weld­ed by robots using weld­ing guns made by com­pa­nies like Lin­coln Elec­tric. These guns need robot wire feed­ers to com­plete their weld­ing tasks.

One of the largest robot­ic weld­ing com­pa­nies in the world, Fanuc, uses Lin­coln Elec­tric robot wire feed­ers on their ARC Mate series robots. The robot­ic wire feed­ers are built to fit onto joint three on the robot’s six axis body.

Wire feed­ers are need­ed for robots that per­form MIG, pulsed, flux cored and met­al cored weld­ing. One of Lin­coln Electric’s mod­els, the Auto­Drive wire feed­er, can be used for all these types of weld­ing. This 4‑roll robot­ic wire feed­er sys­tem can actu­al­ly be used for either hard automa­tion or robot­ic automa­tion systems.

The robot wire feed­ing from LE is easy to use because there are no extra tools need­ed for wire guid­ing, dri­ve rolling or arm pres­sure adjust­ments, accord­ing to Lin­coln Elec­tric. This wire feed­er mod­el has high­er accu­ra­cy than some oth­er wire feed­ers, along with being more durable because of the cast alu­minum system.

Over­all, LE pro­vides the Fanuc ARC Mate iC series robots with a nest­ing robot wire feed­er that opti­mizes any Fanuc weld­ing solu­tion by max­i­miz­ing the robot’s accel­er­a­tion and through­put, the site stated.

Robots​.com, a cer­ti­fied inte­gra­tor for sev­er­al dif­fer­ent robot­ics com­pa­nies across the Unit­ed States, has access to many dif­fer­ent robot wire feed­ing sys­tems and oth­er parts for your robot weld­ing pack­age. We part­ner with com­pa­nies like Fanuc and Lin­coln Elec­tric to make sure that our cus­tomers have access to every­thing they need for a com­plete, suc­cess­ful robot­ic solu­tion for their facility.

For more infor­ma­tion about automat­ing your weld­ing process­es with Robots​.com, con­tact a mem­ber of our high­ly-knowl­edge­able sales staff today online or at 877−762−6881.