WINDUS Independently Designed and Completed the Layout and Application of the Welding Robot Workstation
After receiving a batch order for customer products this year, our company began to arrange production. The manufacturing center established a welding robot workstation and set up a project team to hold a kick-off meeting. At the meeting, Li Xin, the chief engineer of the project, reported the overall structural layout plan of the robot workstation that was initially drafted after preliminary research, and the participants had a full communication on the plan. After the meeting, the engineer revised the plan based on everyone's suggestions. Subsequently, a second meeting was held. At the meeting, the revised plan was reviewed, and the project progress and follow-up time nodes were drafted. Output engineering drawings, material lists, organize production and production, organize installation and commissioning, conduct acceptance, conduct trial production... All tasks are being carried out as planned. During the advancement process, the project team modified the robot, such as raising the robot base by 540mm, so that the robot has a larger welding space and can better exert its extreme freedom. At the same time, the robot welding gun was replaced with a 75° short gooseneck welding gun, which is more convenient and flexible when programming and can weld in all positions; the area of the robot workstation was reasonably arranged; the welding output equipment was sorted and rectified, such as the welding machine and control cabinet were rearranged; the most important thing is that two meetings were held to review the transformation plan and drawings of the positioner, and the large bottom plate, rotating bracket, V-seat device, cross slider coupling, power assembly part of the positioner were modified to improve the convenience and safety of the positioner. After nearly one and a half months, the project team completed the layout of the robot workstation. The robot workstation after the layout covers an area of about 32m2, and the robot can perform circumferential welding from three sides, with a maximum turning radius of 1440mm. Among them, a multifunctional welding platform is set up on the south side of the robot, which can weld some small components; the left side of the robot is the fixed welding tooling position. After the layout of the robot workstation was completed, the project team began to install the fixtures and debug them, readjust the programming and conduct trial runs, and start test welding. After ten test weldings, the robot can perform continuous welding without failure according to the programming, the welding quality can meet the requirements, and compared with manual work, the robot's welding time is shortened by half. Production efficiency has been greatly improved. So far, through the robot automation production process, production efficiency has been greatly improved and the production cycle of products has been shortened; robots can replace human labor to complete some dangerous, heavy and repetitive work, reducing human labor intensity and costs; and the robot has high-precision operation capabilities, which can ensure the stability and consistency of product quality.