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siegecrossbow

siegecrossbow

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Godzilla said:
what you are seeing is just the slag from the sub arc welding.... the robot just did a pass so the workers haven't had a chance to chip away the slag yet.... Its robotic welding, but still needs people to come in and chip/grind the slag away so you can NDE the welds..

The Chinese seems to utilize the robotic welders better than the west. They all have access to the same machines, but like they say, its how you use the tools lol. The failure rate on those robotic welders in some of the Chinese shops are sub 1%, even some Indian shops are getting sub 2%. They have alot higher failure rates in some of the shops in the US so they are left idle lol.
The key is getting the software tuned to the repetitive high volume work lol, like making loads of these turrets, or pipe/structural skids that are the same. Then you can figure out the kinks in the software and get the failure rate right down. If you try to fk around with it as if it is the same as a manual laborer then of course you are gonna have it stuff up alot...
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And this is why you need expert opinion on such matters. Thank you.
 
plawolf

plawolf

Lieutenant General
siegecrossbow said:
And this is why you need expert opinion on such matters. Thank you.
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Yes and no. While an expert opinion is obviously incredibly insightful, one does not need to be a master welder to realise that if the robots produced bad welds, they would not be used since the products they make won’t pass military QC. It’s not like China is short of skilled labour to need to accept bad quality with robots. If robots are not up to standard, they would not be used in real factories and manual welding would still be performed instead.
 
vincent

vincent

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by78 said:
A welding robot on a tank production line.

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