Successful exhibition with many product innovations

HAIGER/ESSEN – Every four years the international trade world of joining, cutting and surfacing meets in Essen. From September 16 - 21, 2013, more than 1,000 exhibitors from 40 nations presented their innovations at SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN. At the huge exhibition stand Carl Cloos Schweisstechnik GmbH presented their versatile processes and new solutions for manual and automated welding. "The exhibition was a great success. As the most important platform of welding technology major industry trends are demonstrated here," summarised managing director Dr. Robert Buchmann.

One of the top highlights of the CLOOS exhibition stand was the fully-automated chained robot welding system. Here, QIROX robots, welding technology and the QINEO power sources, workpiece positioners and handling systems work optimally synchronised. CLOOS automated robot systems are used in different industries, such as agricultural industry, construction machinery, railway and industrial vehicles. Automation solutions tend to apply systems with automated workpiece identification and loading and unloading processes. Due to the automated workpiece loading and component recognition there are no additional set-up times and an optimum degree of utilisation is achieved.

The new 6kg QRH-280 welding robot is part of the automated welding system. This small, light and highly dynamic robot is perfectly suitable for the CLOOS cell solutions. The compact design saves production area and guarantees a very good accessibility to fixtures. This is particularly advantageous for customers in the automotive and electrical industry and medical engineering because they often dispose of a limited production area. Thanks to the lower mass and smaller lever arm the robot achieves higher speed and thus a better positioning accuracy.