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Advanced Welding Manufacturing System (AWMS)
The Automated Welding Manufacturing System (AWMS) was
a NIST testbed in robotic gas metal arc welding (GMAW).�
It operated from 1997-2001.��
The project goals were to develop interface standards and intelligent,
science-based control technology to increase productivity, improve quality,
and reduce the cost of welding system integration. ��Potential
customers include shipbuilding, heavy equipment manufacturing, and automotive
manufacturing.
The testbed is no longer active, but here are a few remaining
results of automated welding activities at NIST, along with the documentation
of the past efforts. ��
The issue of standard data
formats for welding data,
to be shared by many manufacturing
industries.
Components
of automated welding systems are computer-based, and need to exchange
data in digital formats to operate. �Is
there a need for standard
definitions
of data for weld products, weld designs, weld processes, and weld inspection
test results? ��The payoff would
be that products from different vendors could be easily interconnected
to form effective welding systems.�
�The issue is described in this graphic.� (This is a pdf file. You will need Adobe Acrobat
Reader to view file. Get
Adobe Acrobat Reader) A NIST whitepaper, "We
Need Better Information Connections for Welding Manufacturing",
describes a proposal for forming a common set of welding data definitions,
that could be shared among many industries. Examples of current data
efforts are surveyed from the areas of shipbuilding, highway bridge
construction, and structural steel.
The
NIST Welding Data Dictionary specifies data elements
that are used to describe the design, fabrication and inspection of weldments.� It
comprises welding information from several authoritative sources.� Data include description of component materials,
details of joints and welds, and variables of the welding processes.�
The data dictionary provides, in one document, the welding information
needed to develop format specifications for digital data that can be
exchanged by computer programs.
The
Welding Data Dictionary (69 pages long) can be:
Download in Word
format (1.3 mb)
Download in pdf format (376 kb)
Download in html
format by using your right mouse button. (1.9 mb)
The Word and html formats contain links to definitions
within the document, for easy jumping to a referenced term or section.�
Documents
- Rippey, W.G., We Need Better Welding Information Connections
for Welding Manufacturing, NIST whitepaper, October 2004. PDF
[94kB}
- Rippey, W.G., A Welding Data Dictionary, NISTIR 7107,
March 2004. PDF [204 kB]
- Rippey, W.G., Proceedings of NIST Workshop: Industry Needs
in Welding Research and Standards Development, NISTIR 5822,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, April 1996.
PDF
[84 kB], PS
[6.7 MB]
- Rippey, W.G., Falco, J.A., The NIST Automated Arc Welding
Testbed, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference
on Computer Technology in Welding, San Francisco, CA, July 8-11,
1997. PDF
[72 kB], PS
[647 kB]
- Gilsinn, J.G., Rippey, W.G., et al, A Welding Cell That Supports
Remote Collaboration, Proceedings of the 9th International
Conference on Computer Technology in Welding, Detroit, MI, September
28-30, 1999. PDF
[428 kB], PS
[6.9 MB]
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Date created: 1/25/2001
Last updated: January 13, 2005
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