Automation av svets

This bachelor thesis has been carried out in collaboration with Nitator at Oskarström, Elvis Vodenicarevic has acted as the contact person from the company. Håkan Petersson has acted as responsible supervisor from Högskolan i Halmstad. The purpose of the project is to automate the welding process for two articles. The considered method and equipment will result in cost savings and quality assurance. Currently the welding operation is done manually, where the purpose of the project lies within automation of the welding process. The process will be mostly handled by robots the only human interaction, except for service and maintenance, will be operators feeding material to the magazine. During the time spent at Halmstad University, the students have accumulated the information and experience in design and production that have been the basis for the design of the work. The understanding is based on courses that include mechanics, strength, production development, machine elements, solid modeling and structural analysis. The foundation of the working methodology is based on Fredy Olsson's methods of principle and primary construction. With these methods as support, a complete fixture and magazine has been designed as part of an automated welding process. During the development, the strength and fatigue resistance of the components were checked in Catia V5's analysis function Generative structural analysis. This is to ensure a product that is capable of the loads that occur. This report will mainly deal with the work that has been done regarding the development of the fixture solution. From page 20-23 comes a summary of the most vital parts of the design of the magazine