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Spot Welding <strong>RAPID</strong> Summary<br />

12 Spot Welding<br />

The SpotWare package provides support for spot welding applications that are<br />

equipped with a weld timer and on/off weld gun.<br />

The SpotWare application provides fast and accurate positioning combined with gun<br />

manipulation, process start and supervision of an external weld timer.<br />

Communication with the welding equipment is carried out by means of digital inputs<br />

and outputs. Some serial weld timer interfaces are also supported: Bosch PSS5000,<br />

NADEX, ABB Timer. See separate documentation.<br />

It should be noted that SpotWare and SpotWare Plus, even more, are packages that can<br />

be extensively customised. The user routines are meant to be adapted to the environmental<br />

situation.<br />

12.1 Spot welding features<br />

The SpotWare package contains the following features:<br />

- Fast and accurate positioning<br />

- Handling of an on/off gun with two strokes<br />

- Dual/single gun<br />

- Gun pre-closing<br />

- User defined supervision of the surrounding equipment before weld start<br />

- User defined supervision of the surrounding equipment after the weld<br />

- Monitoring of the external weld timer<br />

- Weld error recovery with automatic rewelding<br />

- Return to the spot weld position<br />

- Spot counters<br />

- Time- or signal-dependent motion release after a weld<br />

- Quick start after a weld<br />

- User-defined service routines<br />

- Presetting and checking of gun pressure<br />

- Simulated welding<br />

- Reverse execution with gun control<br />

- Parallel and serial weld timer interfaces<br />

- Supports both program and start triggered weld timers<br />

3-30 <strong>RAPID</strong> Reference Manual

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