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In July 2020, the China Construction Machinery Welding Technology Summit Forum was held in the city of Xuzhou, China. igm was invited to hold a presentation on “Robotic High Performance Welding in Construction Machinery” at the forum.

With 170,000 excavators sold in China from January to June 2020 (despite the influence of COVID-19), China again manifests the no. 1 market position for yellow goods worldwide.

igm Robotersysteme AG successfully carried out welding tests for additive welding.

Example “screw conveyor” for production machines: usually the screw parts are poured and then milled, due to the large number of screw sizes, many different individual molds are required for production, for which a more cost-effective production variant has now been tested: additive welding of the screw parts

Pöttinger Landtechnik GmbH is one of the leading agricultural engineering products manufacturers in Europe. The family company is based in Grieskirchen, Upper Austria. The product range extends from mowers to self-loading wagons, presses and choppers to various types of soil cultivation equipment, including rotary tedders. The last supplied igm welding robot system welds the components of the tedders, the system is composed as follows:

The newest colleague at our customer Schachtbau Nordhausen (DE) was baptized "Katrin", the igm welding robot system of the type RTE 478-S, combined with 2 L manipulators RWM2-2000A to increase the productivity and quality of complex component production. Only small modules could be welded fully automatically so far, but now parts up to two meters length and up to two tons can be welded in the 10x10 meter robot cell. That is not the last step in Schachtbau-Nordhausen´s automation concept: solid plans for Industry 4.0 - ideas for a 35-meter robot portal for parts up to 12 meters length with a maximum weight of 15 tons are coming up, so we are looking forward to start the offer preparation!

Welding, cutting, bevelling and more – multitasking by igm.

igm robots can do everything: Beside of welding they are also able to cut, bevel, move, pre-heat and more. In this case only the tools need to be exchanged. A real multitasking robot!

Through the possibilities afforded by a modular configuration of robot cells and the integration of diverse tools in the robot control sequence, significantly better throughput times and constant process qualities can be achieved. As a specialist for special machines, igm undertakes the complete designing of the necessary machines.

The igm compact systems are optimized for arc welding applications in all mechanical aspects as well as the control hardware and software. In this combination of work piece and robot peripherals, the entire system is kept compact, since the robot changes workstations simply by pivoting the rotary arm or - in other configurations - the work station is performed by a rotary table.

The modular construction of the rotary and longitudinal chassis components enable the design of robotic systems for quite different part sizes and production conditions.

Simple robot programming is available through the self developed PC-based off-line programming system, using the original software of the robot control system and the teach pendant K6.

igm also offers appropriate solutions for unusual applications. Regardless of whether you want to automate production of aluminum ladders, look for an economic way to weld boilers, manufacture garbage containers, construct bridges or cable cars, are involved in air-conditioning technology or want to teach your students - we can offer the appropriate type of equipment for every application!

High-quality boilers are clad on the interior with stainless steel sheet metal to avoid corrosion. That means that both black/black and black/white welding joints are required during fabrication.

Whether for mining machines for open-pit mining or equipment for underground mining, we offer a custom solution for the manufacture and repair of any machine. Large excavators for open-pit mining are impressive for their enormous size.

More than a dozen different large components for slewing tower cranes, for example slewing platforms or undercarriages for fast-erecting cranes, slewing gear bearings, or slewing ring supports for slewing platforms can be welded by igm welding robots.

igm has great experience in the realization of robotic systems for the production of forklifts and plays a key role in customized welding solutions for lift masts, lattice masts, main frames, engine frames and hydraulic cylinders.

When igm robots weld, precision comes into play: Our robot systems weld many parts for rail vehicles all over the world. Engines, frames, bogies, side walls, roofs, front walls for freight or passenger cars, locomotives, high-speed trains, suburban trains, subway and tram cars are products igm robots are working on.

Our installations for the manufacture of excavating machines consist of stand-alone machines or complete production lines with multiple welding cells and systems for automatic loading and unloading. Welding requirements are often demanding due to extreme material thickness, however, our robots are able to cope with position tolerances, seam displacements and welding distortions by means of laser camera systems which allow extremely accurate welding.

There are applications supported by igm Robotersysteme AG in every area of the welding and cutting industry.

From 06.-08.02. the fair SAMUEXPO celebrated its 20th anniversary! Since 1947, Pordenone in the province of Friuli, located about 30 km west of Udine, has served as a trade fair location for a wide range of economic sectors.

Bell Equipment Germany was founded in 2000 as the third European branch of the South African construction equipment manufacturer Bell Equipment. The Bell dumper truck plant was completely rebuilt on almost 10 hectares of total area, with a production area of around 16,000 m², and it is designed for flexible production of all current vehicle sizes.

The components are dumpers of the articulated dumper trucks with a loading volume of 18 t to 46 t and in the future up to 60 t. The production takes place in two steps: First, the subassemblies (rear and end walls) are manufactured in the smaller igm welding robot cell, then - after manual tacking - the complete dumper is welded in the large igm welding robot station.

The Company Stilfer is one of our longstanding customers, who are trusting completely on igm robotic systems in terms of automatic welding. Fifteen robot cells are filling the production halls of the manufacturer of diverse components for industrial machines from the building sector to the earth-moving sector. 2020 will follow 3 new igm installations to strengthen Stilfer´s workshop. Especially lifting- and hydraulic component equipment up to 12 meters in length and 6000 kg are processed by our robots.