KUKA teach-in Smart Welding

In order to solve the pain points of welding professions, such as high variety, small batch, poor team consistency, harsh working environment, long commissioning time, and difficult changeover, KUKA Industry has launched a new treatment solution, Smart Welding. Smart Welding is an intelligent welding system developed according to the depth of kuka.SimPro, offline programming without teaching, and no need for precise positioning of products, which can effectively deal with professional welding problems such as construction machinery, steel structures, boxes, ships, beds, and car parts. The product supports the standard welding station and the integrated integrated processing scheme.

KUKA teach-in Smart Welding

Teach-free intelligent welding system

Due to the characteristics of non-standard planning, small batch size and messy form, most of the welding operations are still labor-intensive industries. In the current environment of rising labor costs, such traditional operation methods have high labor costs, and the disadvantages of unstable welding quality have gradually emerged.

Smart Welding products mainly include Smart Welding teach-free system, 3D vision, weld tracking/Touchsense. According to the independent and in-depth development of KUKA.SimPro, through the import of the product model, the product welding track can be actively avoided and planned, and offline programming and teaching are required, which can effectively ensure the accuracy of the weld. The product can be placed at will, without precise positioning, and the system is equipped with intelligent 3D visual scanning to accurately match the weld seam and start welding with one click. In addition, the system can be linked to the positioner to support the optional ground rail, sky rail, and high flexible welding platform, which is suitable for the welding of small batches and multiple varieties of products.

The many advantages of Smart Welding

The Smart Welding system environment is easy to establish, and the conventional product specification station can complete the generation of changeover tracks and start production within 30 minutes. It generates fully automatic programs according to actual working conditions, including process instructions, and allows manual adjustment to be made. In addition, all functional instructions such as workpiece positioning and weld tracking are generated in the offline program, which greatly improves the efficiency compared with the traditional manual automatic teaching welding.

At present, the active generation track has supported a variety of welding methods such as pendulum welding, lap welding, fillet welding, butt welding, girth welding, multi-layer multi-channel, and fillet welding.

Specifically, the advantages of this product are as follows:

1. Active planning of robot path and attitude, active obstacle avoidance

2. One-click generation of weld support

3. Visual active positioning of the workpiece, no need for precise positioning of the product

4. Support the laser tracking or seam finding of the weld

5. Synchronous welding of the support slide rail and the double-axis positioner

6. Messy scenes such as weldable circles and space curves can be welded

7. The same kind of workpiece only needs to be configured once, and the project is actively matched

8. Manual modification and handling of weld support

9. The station supports output statistics and real-time status monitoring

Smart Welding helps arc welding intelligent manufacturing

Intelligent welding is a useful way to deal with the difficulty of labor, high cost and unstable quality in the field of arc welding. Smart Welding uses KUKA's own technology to integrate vision equipment resources, improve equipment intelligence, and help intelligent welding move towards a new era of development.

KUKA teach-in Smart Welding

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