# Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' shipyard generates welding robots' job data, weld order and welding conditions from the 3D hull model, with operators adjusting for the real block

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20130601-welder-10
Date: 2013-06-01 · Stage: Deployment
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## Scope

Japan, one shipyard. The company's own technical paper, by staff of its Koyagi shipbuilding department, says it developed an off-line teaching system that automatically creates job data for welding robots from the 3D hull model, groups weld lines and automatically decides the most efficient welding route, and resolves welding conditions from a database by leg length, position and gap; and that on the actual block operators have to work under conditions that differ from the job data composed beforehand. One block type, robot cells rather than manual welding, 2013.

## Source

- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries — Technical Review Vol. 50 No. 2, 'Practical Use of Hull Block Welding Robots Applying Automatic Off-line Teaching System' (June 2013) — https://www.mhi.com/technology/review/sites/g/files/jwhtju2326/files/tr/pdf/e502/e502056.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

In one shipyard's robot cells, working out the weld sequence and settings from the drawing is done by software, and people correct for what the real block looks like.

## What it does not show yet

One shipyard, one block type, 2013, and robot operators rather than manual welders; it says nothing about repair or site work.

## How to verify it yourself

Open MHI Technical Review Vol. 50 No. 2 'Practical Use of Hull Block Welding Robots' and find "automatically decides the most efficient welding route".


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