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1. Company profile
3. Solution RLW-A
a) Seam tracking
b) Bridging gaps
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
1 Company Profile SCANSONIC
Own application center with 5 lasers (diode and disk lasers up to 8 kW) and 8 robots
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
1 Company Profile Scansonic Optics in Europe
Volvo
Volvo Ume
Olofstrm
Deutschland: Valmet Automotive Inc.
Audi, Bombardier, BMW, Uusikaupunki
Daimler, KWD, MTU,
Opel, Photon, Porsche,
Viessmann, VW
GM
Ellesmere Port voestalpine Polynorm B.V. Laser Center
Bunschoten Sankt Petersburg
BMW Mini
Oxford GM NTO IRE-Polus
Luton Moskwa
BMW Mini
VW
Swindon GAZ
Pozna
Nischni Nowgorod
Audi
Skoda
Brssel
Mlad Boleslav
Renault
Douai
Skoda
Kvasiny
PSA
Poissy
PSA
Trnava
PSA
Rennes
Audi, VW
Bratislava
PSA
Vigo
Audi
Gyr
VW Autoeuropa
Palmela Daimler
Kecskemt
Daimler
Vitoria Magna Steyr
Renault Albersdorf
Novo Mesto
PSA
Madrid VW
Pamplona Seat, Audi PSA
Martorell PSA Fiat Mulhouse
Sochaux Turin
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
2 Initial Situation
Door Audi A8 *)
Laser Remote Welding is gaining more and
more attention (e.g. in BIW production)
welding with
Scansonic ALO3 No wire costs
*) Latzl., M.: Die leichte und funktionale Tr des neuen Audi A8. In: Proceedings of Tren und Klappen, 2010
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
2 Challenges
Stamping
failures
(simulated)
Challenge:
Bridging the gap without
Challenge:
filler wire
Following the edge
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
3 Solution RLW-A
+ No wire costs
+ High efficiency
- How to bridge
gaps?
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
3a Seam Tracking
Forerun 10 mm
Process direction
System gets time to react
Robot program strategy must be seam-
considered (Fixture, Shadows, y tracking
Orientation), like tactile head x lines
Important:
for run
Seam tacking lines cover complete y scan
range (16.5 mm)
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
3a Seam Tracking
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
3b Bridging Gaps
Oscillation
Upper Sheet in y or x&y
Melt Pool
Bridged Gap
Oxide Skin
Gap
Lower Sheet
Gap beetween upper and Oxide skin around the melt Increasing the melt pool
lower sheet can not be pool leads to high surface by beam oscillation high
bridged with standard tension and joining failures beam intensity + large
parameter for zero gap melt pool
situation Increasing of melt pool by
using bigger beam High beam velocity leads
Adjustments of process diameters is not sufficient to a good material
parameters are necessary due to loss of beam intensity deposition from upper to
instable keyhole lower sheet
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
3b Bridging Gaps
Laser power
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
3b Bridging Gaps
Gap: 0 mm
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
3b Bridging Gaps
Front and
back side
of steel
sheets
Cross
section
view
[VS 2.5m/min;
H260LAD]
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
3b Bridging Gaps
Backside
Micro Sections
1,5 0,5
0,4 mm
mm
mm
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging
Conclusion and Acknowledgement
At remote welding seam tracking is necessary to realize fillet welds or butt welds at the
correct position
The author would like to thank the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF) for the support of parts of the carried out work within the Brightlas Research
Project.
Scansonic MI GmbH Seam Tracked Laser Remote Welding with Automated Gap Bridging concl.