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Robotic welding for the welds that repeat.

An experienced welder is hard to hire, and their time is worth more on the work that requires judgement. The robotic cell runs the repetitive weld — identical on part one thousand and part one — and your people do the skilled work.

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The application

Robotic welding

Welds that repeat part after part: panels, serial structures, tank shell courses. Here the argument is not only the shift you cannot fill — an experienced welder is hard to hire, and their time is worth more on the work that requires judgement. The repetitive weld goes to the cell; the skilled work stays with your people.

  • What we measure: weld length and position, part repeatability and volume per batch.
  • Typical parts: panels, serial structures and tank shell courses.
  • Typical equipment: welding arm with torch and dedicated fixturing.
  • Programming: by manual teaching with a teach pendant, or offline CAD-CAM from the 3D model.
  • A good sign: the same part in batches, with fixturing that positions it identically every time.
  • Logtix monitoring included in the fee: the cell is watched from our control centre.
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Before the visit

When a welding cell fits

These are the signals we measure during the technical visit. If your operation ticks most of them, the task probably fits.

  • The same part, in batches

    Panels, serial structures, shell courses: parts that repeat. Part families are handled with offline CAD-CAM programming.

  • Fixturing that positions identically every time

    The robot repeats the path; the fixturing guarantees the part is where the path expects it. It is the governing condition.

  • Defined, reachable welds

    Weld length, position and access are measured at the assessment, together with volume per batch.

  • Human judgement where it belongs

    If every part is unique and a one-off, reprogramming eats the benefit — and we say so.

Frequently asked

What people ask about this application

Does a robotic welding cell work for parts that change?
Yes, and there are two routes depending on how they vary. For parts that change little, or for short batches, we program by manual teaching: we walk the arm through the path with the teach pendant, and the cell memorises and repeats it. For wider part families we use offline CAD-CAM programming: we start from the part's 3D model, generate the path off-line and load it without stopping production. With either method the fixturing still governs — the part has to end up positioned identically every time. If every part is different and a one-off, reprogramming and fixturing eat the benefit, and we say so at the assessment.
Does the welding cell replace my welders?
That is not how it works in practice. The repetitive weld goes to the cell and the experienced welder moves to the work that requires judgement: prep, fit-up, inspection and the fine work a robot does not solve. The plant produces more without depending on hiring a profile that rarely shows up.
Next step

Which part do you weld over and over?

Book an assessment. We measure the weld, the part and the fixturing, and tell you whether robotic welding fits.

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