Simulation of industrial robots for laser welding of load bearing construction

Abstract

Laser welding is becoming an essential procedure in Automobile industry. Compared to standard welding processes such as MIG/MAG and point welding, laser welding has distinct advantages, such as small strains, higher speed of welding, quality welds as well as high flexibility.These advantages are crucial in modern automo-bile industry since the quality and flawless accuracy of load bearing welds ensures safety and thus competitiveness of the final product. High welding speed and short cooling periods of the weld additionally increase productivityThis paper is a presentation of a simulation indus-trial robot laser welding of load bearing construction in automated production process. 3D simulation play very important role in robotics development. Today we can simulate every production process segment by using IT tools. This simulation process enables to develop new pro-duction processes with minimal costs.