Premium welding robot solutions at Valk Welding at Machineering 2019

Welding robot integrator Valk Welding will show its solutions that enable continuous and high-quality welding processes at the Machineering 2019 trade fair in Brussels. The main focus is on flexible deployment for small series and large variations, programming and weld seam tracking. In order to enable high output, high duty cycle and high welding quality, Valk Welding itself has developed a number of unique hardware and software tools.  

The offline programming system DTPS and a number of Quick Programming Tools that greatly reduce programming time play a decisive role in this. The strength of this software lies mainly in the fact that the welding programs can be executed directly by the welding robots without significant corrections. This ensures, among other things, a high output and duty cycle. To make this transparent and measurable, Valk Welding offers its own Management Information System, of which the latest generation MIS 2.0 will be on display at the fair.

With a complete cell, consisting of a Panasonic welding robot on a torsion-free H-frame construction with 2 fixture locations, Valk Welding provides an example of a flexibly deployable welding robot installation. The welding robot is equipped with the unique VWPR robot torch with pneumatic cut-off. A welding torch that comes standard on every Valk Welding welding robot installation and is optionally suitable for automatic changeover between MIG and TIG torch, torch cleaning and automatic tungsten electrode changeover (TEES).
To ensure that the welding robot finds the weld seam exactly, Valk Welding deploys its own developed Quick Touch wire search method in addition to the well-known gas head search. Both systems automatically correct any deviation found in the welding program. In addition, the Arc-Eye laser camera welding seam tracking system is shown, which ensures that the welding robot follows the welding seam in real time.

Strongly developing is the application of VR technology in programming welding robots; a way of offsite teaching that allows welders without programming knowledge to create a program for the welding robot. At the show, visitors can experience for themselves live how fast and instinctively that works.

Valk Welding also shows a 3D marine propeller, with which the welding robot specialist demonstrates its evolution in the field of 3D WAAM printing with a welding robot. 3D WAAM printing is creating a new market, in which more and more applications are being developed.

Valk Welding is also participating in the learning tour organized by Metal-Alliance to introduce engineering students to industrial production equipment.

Valk Welding, Machineering 2019
Brussels, booth Stand C05
www.valkwelding.com