For the production of steel structures 75% of the total manufacturing time is wasted in the assembly of separate components and machined steel profiles.<\/p>\n
The welding of separate components is so far almost entirely done by hand, because there are no automated systems for this purpose. Although the need for this particularly kind of machinery already longer exists, especially because automation of handling and composition will make a huge cost advantage.<\/p>\n
Voortman manufacturer of machinery for processing steel and profiles and Valk Welding specialized in robots for welding, cutting and handling processes, have therefore started a corporation to develop an automated system for flexible assembly of steel structures.<\/p>\n
The intention is to fabricate a system that is able to automatically pick up individual components and weld it on to a fixed pre-programmed position. This system should be ready in the third quarter of 2010. For this system handling as well welding robots will be used. The focus of this development is to translate CAD data to a comprehensive CAM file, which not only includes the position but also the tolerances and the quality of the weld. For picking up the individual components Vision-systems will be used.<\/p>\n
Such initiatives have been started before, but never led to a functional result. Both companies believe that this ambitious project can only succeed if the knowledge of handling and processing of steel structures and assemblies are brought together. Voortman and Valk Welding have both their own software department. Therefore in the upcoming period the focus will be on the close cooperation between these two software divisions.<\/p>\n
The directors Mark Voortman and Remco Valk see this period as the appropriate momentum to start this project. First of all because steel structures are becoming increasingly complex through the ongoing developments in 3D CAD. This requires greater form-freedom and more assemblies. Meanwhile ageing causes a natural decrease of professional welders, with the result that when the market rebounds a huge capacity problem might emerge. Emerging markets also offer a huge potential for such systems.<\/p>\n
Voortman and Valk Welding are allready cooperating for a longer period with the integration of beam coping robots (video) which are integrated in the Voortman beam processing systems. The automated assembly system will be a perfect completion.<\/p>\n
Information:
\nwww.voortman.net
\nwww.valkwelding.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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