In the era of significant development in automated welding, Yinglai Technology's laser seam tracking system has rendered welding robots more intelligent.

The "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Intelligent Manufacturing Industry, issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, explicitly proposes the development of intelligent welding robots. According to incomplete statistics, about half of the industrial robots in service in China are used in the field of automobile manufacturing, and among these industrial robots, more than half are welding robots.

In 2022, the global welding robot market size reached 62.635 billion yuan, with the Chinese welding robot market accounting for 39.66% of the global market.

Due to the rapid expansion of the economic scale and the steady improvement of the national economic level, China has long become the world's largest welding market. Faced with fierce market competition, China's welding industry is gradually moving towards automation and intelligence.

Welding has become a fiercely contested field for robotics, and laser seam tracking systems are pivotal equipment for realizing the intelligence of welding robots and enhancing productivity.

For welding factories, automated welding has long relied on high-precision tooling fixtures. However, the cost of these fixtures, the consistency of batch workpieces, and the reasons for tolerances have all become factors that enterprises need to consider and balance. Once issues such as welding deviation or burn-through occur, not only is raw material wasted, but production efficiency is also significantly reduced, which is why welding costs remain high.

In light of this, Yinglai Technology has innovatively developed a laser seam tracking system that can effectively improve the success rate of welding and production efficiency in automated welding, making production more intelligent and convenient.

It is understood that the laser seam tracking system consists of two parts: a laser sensor and a control host. The laser sensor is responsible for the active collection of seam information, while the control host is responsible for the real-time processing of this information, guiding industrial robots or welding machines to autonomously correct the programmed path to meet the demands of intelligent production.

For fully automated welding applications such as robots or dedicated automatic welding machines, the alignment of the welding torch within the permissible precision range of the process is primarily ensured by the machine's programming and memory capabilities, as well as the precision and consistency of the workpiece and its assembly. If the precision does not meet the requirements, the robot needs to be reprogrammed. In other words, what Yinglai Technology does is digitize the rich experience of seasoned welders, making their welding processes more intelligent and capable of consistently achieving high-quality welds.

The sensor is typically mounted at the front of the welding torch. Depending on the project requirements, different sensor models with varying focal lengths are selected. The device calculates the detected deviation between the seam and the welding torch, outputs the deviation data, and the motion actuator corrects the deviation in real time, precisely guiding the welding torch for automatic welding. This enables real-time communication with the robot control system to track the seam for welding, effectively giving the robot a set of eyes.

Indeed, humanity extracts trillions worth of steel and various metal materials annually, more than half of which require welding to be transformed into products. Welding robots, enhanced by laser seam tracking systems, can establish a digital benchmark for factory production processes, costs, and welding time, allowing valuable production experience to be accumulated. This achieves the goals of enhancing worker productivity, reducing costs, and ensuring welding quality.

With the aging population and rising labor costs domestically, intelligent and automated welding is bound to become increasingly prevalent. Yinglai Technology will consistently adhere to the philosophy of "Self-improvement, Virtue, Sincerity, and Daily Innovation." The company is committed to continuously enhancing its service promise of "Originating from Yinglai, Worthy of Trust," focusing on providing independently developed and reliable products, thereby creating core value for the development of China's intelligent equipment industry.