ASEA'S SPOTWELDING ROBOTS IRB 90/2 HELPING TO MODERNISE AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION
Spotwelding robots are today, established production tools and are becoming increasingly important in modern industry. Although the robots themselves and their control systems have been the subject of considerable development effort, less interest has been shown in the associated spotwelding equipment. The welding equipment familiar from manual procedures remains that used in robot installations and innovations in this field have been limited to the development of welding guns with built-in transformers which have been adapted, to a degree, to robot application and programmable welding timers. Little has been done with respect to the conduction of secondary current to the welding gun fixed in the robot hand. The extensive working range of the robot and the flexibility of the hand cannot be exploited when the welding equipment has been installed on the robot. At the present, two different types of spotwelding equipment are used in industrial robot applications.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation with particular reference to Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacturing, Volume 2, Wolfsburg 13-17 September 1982.
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Corporate Authors:
Automotive Automotion Limited
42 Lloyd Park Avenue
Croydon CRO 5SB, Surrey, England -
Authors:
- Kaufmann, H
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1982
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 443-448
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Machines; Robots; Spot welding; Welding
- Old TRIS Terms: Welding machines
- Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00373482
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-034 079
- Files: HSL, USDOT
- Created Date: Jun 30 1983 12:00AM