A. Scope of Welding Center Welding Column and Boom:

1. What Is: Welding Center is a turn key project group of specifically arranged integrated Welding Equipment, which can fulfil wide variety of personalized demand from customers, on fabricating on diversified working parts;

2. Constitution: The Major Types of Welding Equipment which Form into Welding Center:

1) LHZ series Welding Column and Boom (Welding Manipulator);
2) HGZ/ HGK/ HLK series Welding Rotator (Welding Turning Roll);
3) HB/ LBS series Welding Positioner;
4) Any special design Welding Equipment;
5) Integrated electric control and operating system;

3. Business Case: Wuxi JACK Exported to Russia Welding Center:

Composed of:
1) 1 set of LHZ5050 moving and automatic Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment;
2) 5 sets of HLK80 bolt adjusting Welding Rotator with hydraulic drive lifting Welding Turning Roll;
a) For fabricating on petrochemical pipes and tanks in large volume;

b) LHZ5050 Welding Center: Welding Column and Boom plus 5 sets of bolt adjusting Welding Rotator: (Fig.1)

c) LHZ3030 Welding Center: Welding Column and Boom plus 1 set of leadscrew adjusting Welding Rotator: (Fig.2)

B. Welding Equipment and Function Units in Welding Center Welding Positioner:

In practical use, the frequently selected Welding Equipment that may be composed into Welding Center:

1. Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment:

1) Stationary or motor drive moving LHZ series Welding Column and Boom (Welding Manipulator);
2) The corresponding boom up and down moving stroke can be from 2,000mm to 8,000mm in conventional models: LHZ2020 to LHZ8080;
3) Boom horizontal extending and retracting stroke is from 2,000mm to 8,000mm in conventional models: LHZ2020 to LHZ8080;

2. Welding Rotator:

1) HGZ series Self Adjusting Welding Rotator;
2) HLK series Bolt Adjusting Welding Rotator;
3) HGK series Leadscrew Adjusting Welding Rotator;
Of different loading capacities Welding Roller Bed;

3. Welding Positioner:

1) Conventional single welding Turning Table HB series Welding Positioner;
2) Head and Tail Welding Positioner
3) LBS series L type Welding Positioner;
4) Special made or Servo drive Welding Positioner;
In various loading weight of Rotary Welding Table with or without lifting function;

4. Welding Fixture and Special Made Welding Equipment:

Wide variety of mechanical structure and technical specifications of:
1) Welding Fixture;
2) Welding Equipment;
3) Pipe Welding Equipment;
5. Welding Robot;

6. Supplementary Welding Function Units in Welding Equipment:

1) Welding Power Supply with any type of welding modes, especially: SAW/ CO₂ GMAW/ MIG/ MAG... ;
2) Together with supplementary welding function units, such as: Welding Seam Tracker/ Video Camera/ Special Welding Head/ Welding Water Cooling Unit, etc.
 

C. Technical Characteristic and Significance of Welding Center Welding Rotator:

1. Special Design and Manufacture: Welding Center is usually tailor designed and special produced based on customer requirement, and differs case by case. Welding Center is a working cell of personalized integrated Welding Equipment, catering for personalized demand from customers;
2. Advanced Technique Embedded: Welding Center embodies the comprehensive technical capability of the nation/ region / industries and companies. Composition of Welding Center usually involves series of state-of-art innovation in hardware and software of Welding Equipment;
3. Wider and Wider Use: With time going and development of Technique/ Technology/ Technical Standard in Welding Equipment Industries, more and more personalized Welding Center are applied at customers site across Manufacturing Industries;
4. Summary on Welding Center and its Welding Equipment is illustrated in product page of “Introduction on Wuxi JACK Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment”.
 

D. Brief on Several Business Cases of Wuxi JACK Welding Center Welding Column and Boom:

In this product page, we list 4 business cases of Wuxi JACK Welding Center, which are composed of different species and technical specifications of Welding Equipment:

1. Heavy duty Large SAW and Strip Cladding Welding Center (Welding Column and Boom and Welding Rotator):

For carrying out large gas and oil tank production at Petrochemical facility:
1) LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment: 1 set;
2) HLK80 model 80 Ton Welding Roller Bed loading capacity hydraulic drive welding turning roll lifting bolt adjusting Welding Rotator: 5 sets;
3) HB30 model 30 Ton loading capacity Welding Positioner: 1 set;

2. Medium duty CO₂ GMAW Welding Center (Welding Column and Boom and Welding Rotator):

For implementing on stainless steel pipe production in pharmaceutical factory:
1) LHZ3030 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment: 1 set;
2) HGK10 model 10 Ton Welding Roller Bed loading capacity leadscrew adjusting Welding Rotator: 2 sets;

3. Heavy duty Large SAW Welding Center (Welding Column and Boom and Welding Rotator):

For performing Oil and Gas Pipeline Fabrication at Petrochemical facility:
1) LHZ6050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment: 2 sets;
2) HGZ200 model 200 Ton Welding Roller Bed loading capacity Self adjusting Welding Rotator: 10 sets;
4. Compact Size Light duty Welding Center for fulfilling Pipe flange fabrication and production: Integrated Welding Equipment: Welding Positioner in the bottom and Welding Rotator at the top

1) LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment
2) HLK80 hydraulic drive anti-drifting Welding Rotator;
3) HB30 Welding Positioner;
Usage and Welding Mode: For fulfilling large tank production, with heavy duty SAW Finished Welding and Strip Cladding:

A. Business Case of Finished SAW Welding and Strip Cladding Welding Center:

1. Background: This SAW (Submerged arc welding) Welding Center was developed by Wuxi JACK for an overseas customer from Oil and Gas Industry, for fabricating on large size tanks. The diameter of tanks can be up to Φ4500mm;
2. Workpiece Support: Is fulfilled with laying large tanks onto welding roller bed of groups of Welding Rotator;

3. The 3 Major Welding Equipment and Its Operations for Fabricating on Tanks in this Welding Center:

1) The internal and external longitudinal welding for completing manufacture on each segment of tanks, which need to be completed with the LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment;
2) The internal and external circumferential welding for joint 2 segments of tanks, by means of the HLK80 Welding Rotator and LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment;
3) The Strip Cladding (Built-up welding) on external surface of tanks, by means of the HLK80 Welding Rotator and LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment.

C. Technical Features of Finished SAW Welding and Strip Cladding Welding Center:

1) The welding mode in this sophisticated Welding Center is SAW (Submerged arc welding). SAW welding mode is applicable for fabricating on workpieces made of medium to thick thickness carbon steel;
2) Double Function Welding Heads: Specific in Welding Equipment of this Welding Center, the welding heads installed in the LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment can implement on 2 kinds of SAW welding: The conventional finished welding, as well as Strip Cladding (Built-up welding). The welding heads for the 2 kinds of SAW modes are different;
3) Produced Welding Seam: The SAW Strip cladding in Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment of the Welding Center has high deposition rate, high welding quality, and low penetration. It will produce a layer of 60mm width x 0.5mm thickness on surface of workpieces on the Welding Center:

4) The strip cladding welding seam delivered from built-up welding head in the LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment of the Welding Center: (Fig.1)

5) Strip Cladding heads of the LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment of the SAW Welding Center: (Fig.2)

6) Anti-drifting: The HLK80 leadscrew adjusting Welding Rotator being equipped in this SAW Welding Center is hydraulic drive anti-drifting type welding roller bed;

D. Technical Parameters of Finished SAW Welding and Strip Cladding Welding Center, LHZ5050 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment, HLK80 Welding Rotator and HB30 Welding Positioner:

5. Technical Parameters of Medium duty CO₂ GMAW Welding Center LHZ3030 Welding Column and Boom Automatic Welding Equipment plus HGK20 Welding Rotator for Stainless Steel Pipe Making:

1. Characteristics: Compared with the previous 3 business cases of medium to large Welding Center, here this MIG Welding Center has light weight and compact size;
2. Function and Working Feature: This MIG Welding Center is used for welding various specifications of pipe flange parts in the optimum welding position, with welding mode of MIG;
3. Applied Welding Equipment: As can be observed from the above photos, this MIG Welding Center is composed of special made Welding Positioner, special made tilting type leadscrew adjusting Welding Rotator, and tailor made Welding Fixture;
4. Easy Handling: Due to its light weight and flexible arrangement, such kind of MIG Welding Center can be installed and relocated easily and conveniently at customer sites.