Title :
Condition monitoring with controlled repair capabilities for process automation in repair welding services
Author :
Starke, Günther ; Bach, Christian
Author_Institution :
Tech. Hochschule Aachen, Germany
fDate :
31 Aug-4 Sep 1998
Abstract :
Today, repair welding services are mostly carried out manually. This gives birth to problems which arise from the poor repeatability of welding process conditions and resulting weld quality. Trial and error approaches are mostly adopted in the daily work. To overcome both technical and technological problems in this business it is intended to introduce advanced but specially tailored production technologies in the field of repair welding. The following paper presents an innovative concept for repair welding automation. Special emphasis is given to a modular structured approach involving condition monitoring in combination with computer-assisted process planning and controlled repair capabilities for mechanized and robotized repair welding applications
Keywords :
computer aided production planning; condition monitoring; industrial robots; maintenance engineering; process control; welding; computer-assisted process planning; condition monitoring; controlled repair capabilities; mechanized repair welding; modular structured approach; process automation; repair welding automation; repair welding services; robotized repair welding; welding process conditions; Application software; Automatic control; Condition monitoring; Costs; Humans; Machinery production industries; Process control; Process planning; Robotics and automation; Welding;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 1998. IECON '98. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Aachen
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4503-7
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.1998.724091
