Utilizing Xiris WeldStudio™ Professional with Beckhoff Automation

Xiris has a protracted historical past of offering forefront thermal and visual weld cameras for Metallic Additive Manufacturing and significant welding functions.

One of many most important challenges with Metallic Additive Manufacturing is how to make sure the half high quality of the completed product. This could solely be completed with cautious monitoring and adaptive management in the course of the construct course of. Integration of visible and thermal weld cameras can be utilized to independently monitor the Metallic additive manufacturing course of and supply geometric and thermal info in actual time that’s in any other case not accessible with different sensor applied sciences. Particularly, measuring options such because the soften pool form and dimension, the wire (or powder) feed pace and high quality, or the weld bead dimension and cooling charges.

Fig. 1: Picture of WAAM (GMAW) course of exhibiting soften pool and cooling bead.

As soon as such information is collected, the following problem is to be sure that all measured info may be communicated reliably and with minimal latency to the method controller. That is particularly essential with welding processes as they’re very dynamic and unstable processes with many parameters that must be rigorously coordinated and managed.

Beckhoff® Automation gives automation techniques utilizing confirmed PC-based management expertise which can be commonly used with Metallic Additive Manufacturing and welding processes. The Beckhoff® TwinCAT modular Structure is usually utilized in such industrial environments as a steady, dependable communication protocol. To make techniques integration simpler, Xiris has now made WeldStudio Professional accessible with the Beckhoff Automation ADS Interface (Automation Gadget Specification).

With such an interface, excessive bandwidth communication between the Beckhoff®, TwinCAT® management surroundings and WeldStudio Professional is feasible, utilizing the ADS communication protocol that’s core to the management’s structure.

This Interface may be simply configured and arrange throughout the WeldStudio Professional software program as all temperature measurement information and associated machine imaginative and prescient measurements can be found by way of the WeldStudio Information Supervisor.  

Fig. 3: WeldStudio Professional exhibiting the Information Explorer for Measurements accessible, by way of ADS Interface.

Conclusion 

In abstract, utilizing WeldStudio® Professional with the Beckhoff® ADS interface varieties an amazing techniques management structure that allows an environment friendly but nicely built-in resolution to have the ability to talk thermal and visible cameras measurements from WeldStudio to an exterior machine that includes a Beckholff HMI system.

Beckhoff®, TwinCAT® and ADS are Emblems of Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co.

Beckhoff implements open automation techniques utilizing confirmed PC-based management expertise.

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