Giving you process leadership, in smaller shopfloor with shorter throughput times
RinasWeld
A main component in the kernel common to all Rinas systems is the model-control functionality. This functionality will create and maintain a complete combined model giving full control of the 3D-workspace and the objects within this space.
The model-control includes the Product Model that defines the work-piece, possibly with information about the welds that are to be processed by the robot. The model-control also includes the Equipment Model describing all relevant equipment objects used in the production.
By applying, to the resulting powerful 3D CAD model, the knowledge from the Process Model and the Work Strategy Model, the automatic off-line generation will create collision-free robot programs. In this operation, where the time dimension is added, the combined model is enhanced to a dynamic model, which, extended through the online feed back, becomes a model of the whole robotized production.
From the combined model several output may be extracted of which the most import is the complete ready-to-use robot program for welding.
Also available is a graphical simulation showing all robot movements for the complete robot program. This graphical simulation is not an active part of the robot generation process but is solely to be used to visualise the robot movements, as they will be performed when applied in the production.
Product Model
The Product Model is established by importing the work piece model from a 3D CAD-system.
The RinasWeld system has the capability of importing a number of commonly used formats representing work-piece models, including parameterised descriptions, 2 and 2½-dimensional, and full 3- dimensional representations.
This makes RinasWeld independent of any specific 3D CAD-system.
Process Model
The Process Model contains all relevant information necessary for the welding process to be performed properly.
All rules, moving patterns, conditions, tolerances and welding process parameters that are needed for achieving the welding quality required are either pre- defined or can be defined by the user.
The Process Model can be enriched by the user in a structured way as experience from the production is collected.
RinasWeld - ARAC
The combination of advanced model handling in RinasWeld with the proven welding techniques in the ARAC system has created an efficient robot programming system for welding of double bottom constructions.
All parameters necessary for the ARAC welding macros are generated based on the actual CAD model of the work piece.
A complete robot program is generated by the ARAC system, and a collision check is performed through simulation in RinasWeld.
RinasWeld features
• Support of various 3D CAD-format interfaces
• Project Management Facilities allowing unattended generation of robot programs for several projects. Thus generation of robot programs for one or more full days of production can take place on the computer during the night.
• Editing facilities for some 3D CAD model improvements
• Editing facilities for welding process information improvements
• Automatic generation of welding process information based on the advanced CAD model analysis
• Automatic task subdivision and distribution among robots in multi-robot systems
• Intelligent process sequencing and job scheduling
• Automatic generation of complete clash-free robot programs
• Interactive Feed Back Concept allowing - at any time - re-generation of robot programs based on changed conditions on the shop floor, such as robot failure, significant displacement of work piece, changed process conditions, etc.
• Currently supports Motoman, Hirobo and ABB robots
• Graphical simulation of generated robot programs for visual verification of how robots will perform in production
• Print of documentation to be used by the production staff (drawings, job distribution schemes, statistics etc.)
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