- Welcome to Weld.com.
I'm Bob Moffitt.
I'm back at Valencia College in Kissimmee, Florida
with Jason, and Jason is gonna showcase
one of the pieces of equipment that they have here
in their training facility.
Jason, tell me a little bit about this unit and
what you do with it.
- [Jason] So, we've got a Lincoln Electric R350
and a FANUC robotic arm.
Basically, what we do is we have a stand alone class
that teaches previous welding students
about the robotics course.
Welders, you know, as you know,
they've gotta have a good fundamental understanding
of the basics of welding as far as travel speed,
work angle, contact tip to work distance,
all the things that make up a good weld.
So, what we do is we take those students in
and then we show them how to program the robot.
So it's easier to take somebody that knows,
you know, something about welding and
teach them the robotics portion
than it is to take, like, a programmer and
teach them welding.
- Exactly.
- So, we have our in-house robot nerd Josh Laboze,
our other instructor.
So, he's gonna come in and kinda give you some of
the more fine tuned technical aspects of it.
- Okay, very good.
- Josh you have the Weld.com programmed.
We're gonna weld that on a piece of flat plate.
How did you go about creating that program?
- [Josh] What I did was, this works off of wave points.
It works off of a x, y, and z coordinates.
- [Bob] Okay.
- [Josh] Like, polar coordinates or c and c.
So, basically, we're in space and I select a point and
then I go ahead, once I select that point,
it remembers that point.
I can go back to that point,
I can change it to whatever I want.
You know, if I need to touch it up or anything like that.
- Okay.
- And then, basically, just comes down,
touch the plate with my correct contact tip to work distance
and then I started tracing out "Weld.com".
- Okay.
So, I'll do a dry run real quick if you wanna see that.
- M'kay.
- All right, cool.
- [Bob] Did you, you said you started at a way point
all of this would be lined up at the bottom.
Do you use that as a reference point?
Because some of these you start out at an angle.
Obviously, you have the circles
and the c's and the d's and all that.
Is there a, do you kind of maintain a reference point
down here at the bottom for how far your travel is?
- Not really, no, I just kind of,
I folded up a piece of paper, put "Weld.com" on there.
- Oh okay, okay.
- And I just traced it out.
It was the easiest way to go about it.
- [Bob] Okay.
So, while this is welding,
we're using a Lincoln R350.
Is there a particular program that we're using
for metal transfer?
- Yes, we're using RapidArc.
- Okay.
What gas are you running?
- We're running a 90-10.
- Okay.
Oh-three-five E R 70 S six. - Yes, sir.
- Yes, sir.
- Okay.
Well, I wanna see this work.
Let's do a logo.
Let's weld it.
- All right, let's do it.
(intense buzzing)
(buzzing continues)
- [Bob] Josh, that's pretty interesting.
While this is welding,
I'm seeing all the stuff that you had to program in there:
the travel speeds, the stops, the delays.
I imagine there's more to it than
what I just got through witnessing here
as far as the robotic operation through the program.
- [Josh] Yeah, there's more in the background
but I don't know if you guys want to get into that today.
- [Bob] Well, I really appreciate the demonstration today.
- [Josh] No problem.
- [Bob] Thanks for your time.
We're gonna be back here doing some more robotic stuff.
- [Josh] Okay.
- [Bob] Do some more complex parts and
maybe get into some more intricacies
of the programming part of it.
- [Josh] Yes, sir.
- [Bob] Very good.
Sure appreciate your time.
You, sir, I appreciate you inviting us in.
- [Jason] Well, thanks for coming out.
I really appreciate it.
- [Bob] It's a good education.
You got a great program, look forward to coming back more.
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(clears throat)
- Do you want me to talk about the right hand rule?
And the triad and...?
(laughing)
- [Jason] Sure!
- [Jason] I don't know what that is!
- Get him.