New centre for robotic welding

The Yaskawa Northern Technology Centre represents an investment in excess of £250K and will enable Yaskawa to showcase solutions for welding, cutting and palletising applications.

The centre will feature the latest robotic arc and spot welding applications using the full range of Yaskawa Motoman robots, positioners, power sources, weld controls and turnkey solution cell systems. It will enable Yaskawa’s customers to conduct customer demonstrations and trials on their products, as well as customer product training for online and offline programming.

Yaskawa Motoman’s ArcWorld robotic welding systems are pre-engineered, pre-assembled and shipped ready to weld, delivering flexible, cost-effective options to integrate robotics into welding processes. ArcWorlds can be configured with multiple robots, a heavy-duty positioner or servo-controlled external axes for coordinated motion control.

SpotWorld is a complete work cell with robot, process equipment, part positioner and safeguarding package which leverages Yaskawa Motoman’s MS-series robots and welding positioners to pattern work cells. This, combined with Yaskawa’s ArcWorld product line and servo-controlled spot guns with DC spot timers, is said to ensure optimum synchronisation and improved quality and reduced cycle times.