Industrial Robot Automation in Solving Non-Vacuum Electron-Beam Welding Problems

Arc Welding Robot Automation Systems

Robot automation systems are rapidly taking the place of the human work force. One of the benefits is that this change provides the human work force with the time to spend on more creative tasks. The highest population of robots is in spot welding, spray painting, material handling, and arc welding. Spot welding and spray painting applications are mostly in the automotive industry. However, arc...

Industrial robot motion control for joint tracking in laser welding

High-vacuum versus ‘‘environmental’’ electron beam deposition

Electron beam deposition ~EBD! provides an inexpensive way to fabricate nanostructures of various materials in a scanning electron microscope ~SEM!. However, the purity of metals deposited from an organometallic precursor gas is impaired by simultaneously deposited carbon coming both from the organometallic molecule and the residual contamination gas in the SEM chamber. We discuss carbon-contam...

The use of Electron Beam Welding in Turbomachinery Manufacturing

As demands for higher performance migrated from aircraft engines to land based gas turbines the need for EB welding came along also. The transfer of EB welding processes from relatively thin section components in aircraft turbines to land based aero derivative turbines is straightforward since the basic design and function of both aero and aero derivative components are the same or similar. How...

Seam Tracking for Laser Welding with an Industrial Robot

Because of their construction and flexibility, industrial robots are suitable to be used, with a laser source and an optical fiber, for laser welding of 3D products. However, the positioning accuracy of robots are insufficient for laser welding. Also the product and clamping tolerances are too wide for laser welding. These problems can be solved by applying sensors, which measure the location o...