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Robot Welding in Industry

Robot welding is the use of mechanized programmable tools called robots to fully automate the welding process. While gas metal arc welding is often automated, human operators sometimes prepare the materials. Robot welding is commonly used for resistance spot welding and arc welding in high production industries like automotive. The use of robots for welding grew in the 1980s as the automotive industry adopted them for spot welding. Over 120,000 industrial robots were in use in North America in 2005, about half for welding. Robot arc welding has grown quickly recently and makes up 20% of industrial robot applications.

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Robot Welding in Industry

Robot welding is the use of mechanized programmable tools called robots to fully automate the welding process. While gas metal arc welding is often automated, human operators sometimes prepare the materials. Robot welding is commonly used for resistance spot welding and arc welding in high production industries like automotive. The use of robots for welding grew in the 1980s as the automotive industry adopted them for spot welding. Over 120,000 industrial robots were in use in North America in 2005, about half for welding. Robot arc welding has grown quickly recently and makes up 20% of industrial robot applications.

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Robot welding: Is the use of mechanized programmable tools (robots), which completely automate a welding process by both performing

the weld and handling the part. Processes such as gas metal arc welding, while often automated, are not necessarily equivalent to robot welding, since a human operator sometimes prepares the materials to be welded. Robot welding is commonly used for resistance spot welding and arc welding in high production applications, such as the automotive industry. Robot welding is a relatively new application of robotics, even though robots were first introduced into US industry during the 1960s. The use of robots in welding did not take off until the 1980s, when the automotive industry began using robots extensively for spot welding. Since then, both the number of robots used in industry and the number of their applications has grown greatly. In 2005, more than 120,000 robots were in use in North American industry, about half of them for welding.[1] Growth is primarily limited by high equipment costs, and the resulting restriction to high-production applications. Robot arc welding has begun growing quickly just recently, and already it commands about 20% of industrial robot applications. The major components of arc welding robots are the manipulator or the mechanical unit and the controller, which acts as the robot's "brain". The manipulator is what makes the robot move, and the design of these systems can be categorized into several common types, such as the SCARA robot and cartesian coordinate robot, which use different coordinate systems to direct the arms of the machine. The robot may weld a pre-programmed position, be guided by machine vision, or by a combination of the two methods. [2] The technology of signature image processing has been developed since the late 1990s for analyzing electrical data in real time collected from automated, robotic welding, thus enabling the optimization of welds.

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