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Citation
(2001), "Rotational TIG filler system offers improved productivity and quality to automated welding applications", Industrial Robot, Vol. 28 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2001.04928eaf.002
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Rotational TIG filler system offers improved productivity and quality to automated welding applications
Rotational TIG filler system offers improved productivity and quality to automated welding applications
Keywords: Robots, Welding, Panasonic
A new rotational TIG Filler (Plate 2) system from Panasonic claims to deliver the optimum level of control in automated TIG welding applications, leading to improved productivity and high levels of repeatable quality when welding mild, stainless and special alloy steels and aluminium.
Fully compatible with Panasonic's range of welding robots, the new seven-axis TIG filler system provides filler wire rotational axis control whereby the filler tube can rotate independently of welding torch and robot arm movement. This is said to ensure accurate positioning of the filler wire tube during robot movements and reportedly allows complex welds to be achieved withoutf breaking the weld line path.
Plate 2
Rotational TIG filler system
The TIG filler system is supplied with a pulse wire feed system that synchronises the wire feed with the pulse effect of the weld set. Alternatively, Panasonic reports that the pulse frequency of the wire feed can be varied using a time base control that allows pulse feed even when operating in standard welding modes.
Featuring digital interfaces to both the robot and Panasonic's TWX300 AC/DC TIG welding power source, the new TIG filler system is suitable for both AC and DC welding applications. The TWX300 welding source offers AC, DC, pulse and mixed AC operating modes to ensure high-reliability welding of components and sub-assemblies across a wide range of designs.
The new system will suit a variety of production applications across industries ranging from bicycles and furniture to automotive, medical, catering and domestic appliances.
Further information is available from:John Hopper, Panasonic Industrial Europe Ltd. Tel: +44 (0) l543 446203; Fax: +44 (0) 1543 444747; e-mail: robotics@piel.co.uk; Web site: http://www.piel.co.uk