Welding Robot Technology Upgrade: Ciansung's Innovative Applications in Automotive Manufacturing

New challenges in automotive welding and assembly: Why is further technological upgrading necessary?

Automotive manufacturing, especially body-in-white welding, places unprecedented demands on automated equipment:

High Flexibility Production Requirements

With accelerated vehicle model iterations, multi-platform and multi-model co-production has become the norm. Welding systems must be able to quickly adapt to switching between different workpieces and welding points. Traditional large-scale dedicated welding machines are cumbersome and difficult to modify.

Adaptation to New Materials and Processes

The widespread use of lightweight materials such as aluminum, high-strength steel, and composite materials has placed new demands on welding processes (such as riveting, friction stir welding, and laser welding), requiring more precise force control and trajectory control.

Ciansung's Welding Technology Upgrade: From “Automation” to ‘Intelligence’

Ciansung doesn't merely supply welding robots—it delivers an upgraded solution characterized by “intelligence, flexibility, and collaboration”:

High-Precision, Easy-to-Deploy Collaborative Robots

Ciansung collaborative robots serve as the perfect core for flexible welding cells, featuring high repeatability accuracy, lightweight design, and built-in safety functions. Eliminating the need for heavy bases and bulky safety enclosures, they integrate seamlessly into existing production lines or mount directly onto mobile platforms, enabling rapid reconfiguration and expansion of workstations.

Intelligent Perception

Force Control and Vision-Guided Fusion: Equipped with laser vision sensors, the robot performs real-time scanning and positioning of workpiece weld seams, automatically compensating for deviations caused by fixture tolerances or sheet deformation to achieve adaptive welding. Combined with force control technology, it ensures constant contact force during contact operations like floating forging and weld scar grinding.

From Single-Station to Networked Collaboration

Flexible Welding Cell: Centered around one or more robots, this cell integrates positioners, welding machines, and torch cleaning/wire cutting stations to form a modular, mobile, and independent workstation. It can be flexibly deployed for welding sub-assemblies such as doors, subframes, and battery trays.

Innovative Application Scenarios in the Automotive Manufacturing Sector

Ciansung's intelligent welding solutions have been integrated into several key aspects of automotive manufacturing:

Body-in-White Sub-assembly Welding

Applied to the welding and stud welding of components such as doors, side panels, and engine compartments. The flexibility of collaborative robots allows them to complete multi-angle and multi-variety welding tasks in confined spaces.

Welding of New Energy Vehicle Battery Packs and Trays

Battery trays (typically aluminum) demand stringent control over welding deformation and airtightness. The robot's high precision and stable process package ensure uniform and reliable welds, safeguarding the core safety of the battery pack.

This is not only an upgrade in welding robot technology, but also a crucial driving force in helping the Chinese automotive industry, especially the new energy vehicle industry, move towards high-quality and sustainable development.