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    Advice on Robotic Welding Systems

    You will want ease of use, good feedback etc, automatic corrections etc. Igm robots have..... 1. K5 teach pendant - windows style teach pendant. 2. Instant feedback to TP with welding parameters in real time, you dont need to look at the weld set. 3. Automatic tcp correction. 4. 720 deg axis...
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    Advice on Robotic Welding Systems

    http://www.robotsystems.co.uk/ Ask yourself the question, do you want a robot from a manufacturer that is capable of making there robot weld. !! Or do you want a robot that only specialises in welding. There is a massive difference in there abilitites. I currently work with Fanuc, ABB and...
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    Review of testing a "robotic" welding device

    1. What kind of consumables are used, in house bought out. 2. MTB's, Mean Time Between Failure's..! 3. Working envolope, does it require extra axis. 4. Programming time, does it have an offline programming device, i.e ROBCAD or ACTWELD. Spider : weld a spider can climb vertically, horizontally...
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    Robotic welding aluminium

    You cannot use welding plates on an inside corner, this only works in basic welding theory i.e. on long straight weld seams. You would end up with tooling costing you 10x the price by adding this to all weld seams, if it was at all possible. Then there would be additional costs for clamping...
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    Robotic welding aluminium

    If you are not an experienced Aluminium mig welder, you have got a big hill to climb..! Even if you get all the parameters, I guarentee you will still have problems. Wire feed consistency is the key. You need a push/pull wire feed unit. Keep the length of your welding torch short if possible...
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    On-Line Degrees

    As an employer, I would give a lot of praise to any person who obtained a degree whilst in full time employment. The respect is due to the effort made by dedicating some of there social time to studies rather than studying full time. The examinations are all written by the same level of...
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    Would you do it again?- Hind sight and engineering-

    You have to blame company accountant's & buyers..... Running the price down on engineering products, makes the quality of the product poor. Therefore the respect of poor quality work is given its due respect. We are a society led by accountant's, so the pound in engineering terms is not a...
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    VB search and open from file

    I want to try and create a simple program that will open up a text document and search for a specific part of the document, then print only that specific part to a text box. I guess i would have to use bookmarks in the text document, can any one help please.
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    Engineering Apprenticeship

    We had a project engineer sent to site years ago to help out due to a staff shortage. This guy was a gradute engineer, brilliant at project managing. But we needed him to muck in and give us a hand, a bit of fitting, electrical installation work, welding etc, he could not do any of them...
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    Engineering Apprenticeship

    4yrs apprenticeship (full time), plus your time spent gaining a degree choice. This would be acceptable. Anything less would be consider an accident waiting to happen. There are many companys in the UK that stipulate a full apprenticeship as one of the criteria needed to qualify for a vacant...
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    LOSSES THROUGH MUTUAL INDUCTION

    We have a spot welding machine and projection welding machine side by side, welding the same part. The jig which locates the part is made of ferrous material. After welding for some time, even though the jig is electrically isolated from the lower electrodes and only makes contact to the part...
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    Linear bearing-acetal copolymer radiation protection

    Dupont are the manufaturers of Delrin (acetal copolymer), have you tried to contact them for help. Im not sure where you are based, but i know who to contact at the manufacturing site in Dordrecht Holland if its any help.
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    Will online degrees ever reach high status in the US?

    I do a degree ..then try and get a job.. I do an apprenticeship in a job..gain vast amounts of experience..then do an online degree... who would you employ........! Doesnt matter where the degree is earned...only the person who earns it..!
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    connect my laptop to s7 400

    Basically the way we had to get it to work was to buy a piece of software, I think it was called SCMN7 industrial ethernet - from siemens. This will open up the setup properties in your simatic manager to be able to connect over ethernet. Standard simatic manager wont work. Try asking the...

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