Real-time Quality Control for Welding
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 © 1997 Geoffrey Wheeler Photography |
| Materials
research engineer James Filla monitors a welding robot as part of
a collaborative project with NIST manufacturing automation experts.
NIST holds several patents in the areas of real-time sensing and
control of welding processes. Through a continuing series of cooperative
research and development agreements with automotive and heavy equipment
manufacturers, NIST has helped several companies upgrade their sensors
for welding quality control. The reseachers have already demonstrated
the feasibility of real-time quality control under factory conditions
for longer welds (1 minute and longer) and are now working on applying
the technology to shorter welds where transient conditions (due
to starting and stopping) are more important. |
| Free use of this photo is restricted to materials
that describe NIST programs directly. Copyright is owned by the
photographer. To receive an unwatermarked copy of the photo for
use describing NIST programs contact Gail Porter, (301) 975-3392. To
use the photo as stock photography contact: Geoffrey Wheeler Photography,
721 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, 80302, (303) 449-2137. |
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