What are the differences between welding robots and manual welding?
Release date:2024-12-26Publisher:hejuda

Nowadays, with the widespread application of industrial robots, many industries are considering replacing human labor with robots, including the welding industry. Just like all industrial robots, welding robots consist of a robot body, a control cabinet, and a teaching programmer. However, the robot also needs to be equipped with a welding power supply, a wire feeding device, and a welding gun device.

Welding robots not only have the advantages of high efficiency and stable performance, but also possess good flexibility. Even in complex environments, they can maintain stable and efficient operation. This is inseparable from the composition of the robots, which includes the robot body, welding power supply, one-dimensional heavy-duty sliding table, robot L-arm, gun cleaning and wire cutting station, control system and other equipment.

So, how about the welding quality of the welding robots? If there is a yellow coating on the surface of the weld seam after manual welding, as long as more attention is paid, similar problems can be avoided and the welding quality can be guaranteed to meet the standards.

We need to understand that this yellow substance is actually an impurity in the welding wire and the base material being welded. The main reason is that the silicon-manganese element undergoes high-temperature oxidation during the welding process, and reacts chemically with the carbon dioxide in the shielding gas, decomposing to form silicon dioxide and manganese oxides. This is somewhat similar to the slag produced during manual welding.

Although these phenomena may occur even with the use of welding robots, these oxides do not have any adverse effect on the welding quality and can be easily removed with a brush. Some silicon-manganese elements are present in the metal components of the welding base material. This phenomenon exists. If you want to reduce these oxides, you can use welding wires with less silicon-manganese elements to protect the gas from the influence of a mixture with a lower CO2 content. The oxides produced during welding will be fewer, and the yellow spots will also be fewer.

Therefore, compared with welding robots, humans are inferior to them in terms of speed and accuracy.