What are the advantages of welding rotators?

The use of rotary welding indexers in manufacturing facilities has the potential to revolutionize a company's output, productivity and financial position. These welding indexers significantly reduce the amount of work required for workers to access components or welded parts that need to be welded. Rotary welding indexers make welding easier and faster for employees, increasing a company's productivity and profitability with existing staff.

This passage is going to talk about the followings of welding rotator:

1) Benefits of using welding rotators

2) Reduced time costs

3) Increase unit throughput

1) Benefits of using welding rotators

One of the biggest drivers for companies to use rotary welding positioners is the increased throughput they bring. They enable employees to work smarter, not harder, and provide better ergonomics, making it easier for experienced workers to weld and easier for inexperienced workers to learn. When locations on components that need to be welded can be placed in convenient, easily accessible locations, workers will be able to weld faster and won't be exhausted with each welding job. This allows workers to be more efficient while putting in less effort, enabling them to get more work done in a day and making it less likely that older, more skilled workers will leave the workforce. The physical burden of this work is greatly reduced when the weld position is brought to the worker rather than having the worker reach the weld position.

2) Reduced time costs

Positioning time itself is significantly reduced and made easier by rotating the welding positioner. With older positioning methods, it can sometimes take hours to get a component in the correct position and require the use of multiple workers at a time. This can be quite expensive for a company, as a group of workers cannot produce anything on their own because they need to spend hours working just to reach a certain weld area. Rotary welding indexers allow the same job to be done in a matter of minutes, usually by one worker. This saves work time, increases productivity and throughput, and frees up other workers to perform other production tasks.

3) Increase unit throughput

Rotary welding indexers can also increase throughput when combined with automated welding machines, especially on simple assemblies. Robotically integrated welders increase productivity by working faster and reducing downtime, and they are very consistent. While humans can weld 12 to 14 inches per minute (IPM), robots can typically weld at least 20 IPM. Obviously, unlike employees, automated machines also require no breaks or off-duty time, and with proper maintenance will require minimal downtime. Robots are inherently consistent, as they can be programmed to weld a specific way for a specific product. Automation in this application has the potential to further increase throughput with consistently high quality.

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