Hey everybody,
I had a question regarding an application my company wants to develop, all our work revolves around industrial laser processing, from technology repair and integration to process development. I handle to programming and integration for all robotic based laser applications.
My question regards a weld repair system, we setup a remote laser welding cell to weld rails, each rail has 80 welds a piece on them, they do all weld repairs manually right now. I was wondering if it’d be possible to design a cell that did all the weld repair for you, using a handheld laser welding gun attached to a robot; the idea would be to figure out which welds need to be repaired based on a cut and etch, from there the operator could punch that into the HMI and the robot goes and repairs those specific welds.
I guess my question would be on the robot side is how would the PLC effectively communicate that to the robot? Could we link the numbers in the HMI to position registers inside the robot and from there the robot could go and repair those specific welds? That would be a lot of position registers if so, I figured I could just use one PR to save the offset; as in once you get to position register 76 offset along the y-axis however many mm to succesfully repair the weld.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I mentioned this isn’t a current project but one we’re hoping to build on and hopefully be able to offer to customers.
This is a Fanuc robot we’ll be testing it out on, I put it in the general thread though because we might attach it to a staubli or ABB robot as well.