Robotmaster impressively underpinned its visionary position at the Beijing Essen Welding & Cutting Fair (BEW). In its 19th year, BEW is the premier welding exhibition within the robotics landscape in China and was a solid platform for Robotmaster to showcase its robot programming technologies. With 40,000+ attendees, visitors had the opportunity to see why Robotmaster’s CAD/CAM solution is at the forefront of tackling manufacturing challenges and how it enables manufacturers seeking to adopt robotics to deliver better products.
Providing seamless integration between CAD/CAM and robots, Robotmaster’s programming technologies are unique in enabling a multitude of robot capabilities for a diverse set of industries (i.e. aerospace, high technology, machinery and manufacturing).
Liang Nie, Manager of Robotmaster China, states, “Arc welding is the traditional robot application in which, teaching is always painful but still common due to the process complexity. Now with Robotmaster, there is no more teaching! It’s one click to generate the weld seam and another click to optimize the robot and/or external axis to have the best welding position. The user can even integrate sensing or tracking devices together with Robotmaster to realize a fully automatic welding system, from PC directly to production. It is revolutionary in thick plate welding, for industries such as ship building, transportation, containers, pressure vessels, structural steel, etc.”
Continuing to add value to various applications, visitors at the Robotmaster booth had the opportunity to see what Robotmaster’s robot programming solution is capable of and get a notion of how their work can be simplified for their welding and cutting needs. Working with local robot manufacturer, STEP, Robotmaster demonstrated an integrated welding cell that explicitly showed how easy it was to program a tubular intersection weld. Furthermore, Nie enlightened those in attendance on some of the new features of Robotmaster V6.2 along with several new developments in the pipeline.
Robotmaster seamlessly integrates CAD/CAM based robot programming, simulation and program generation. Common robot programming challenges typically require intricate user intervention or costly manual editing for producing error-free programs. Robotmaster provides innovative tools to effortlessly optimize robot programs producing error-free robot paths, avoiding singularity zones and collisions, working around joint and reach limitations, and optimizing tool orientations along the entire trajectory. Furthermore, Robotmaster is ideally suited to program robots for such tasks as trimming, de-burring, polishing, welding, dispensing, grinding, spraying, painting and 3D machining, while supporting most industrial robot brands.
