News: 04.09.2019

At the SCHWEISSEN 2019 trade fair for joining, cutting, surfacing and testing technologies in the Design Center in Linz/Austria, SKS will be showcasing future-oriented welding capabilities with “Concept 2020” alongside the extended Frontpull torch series for heat-reduced welding.

Welding has come a long way from manual welding technology to fully automated welding lines. The digitalization of welding parameters put an end to the prejudice that arc welding-based production processes are associated with smoke, dirt and welding spatter. The continuous improvement of process control systems paves the way for cleaner welding cells. Electronically controlled processes including the control of power, voltage, time windows, and even mechanical droplet detachment established welding as an efficient joining method – especially for highly automated applications.

The advent of modern factories and concepts such as “Industry 4.0”, “Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)” and “Industry 2025” have opened up further possibilities to make welding even more efficient. As early as 2007, SKS and their technology partners already developed an application that would come under the heading “Industry 4.0” today. This application involves an interface that was created using a newly developed communication protocol to communicate with the robot. The robot transmits the current speed to the welding system, which fully automatically adjusts the parameters: SYNCHROWELD.