Birim Makina: Dual-Robot Gantry Welding System on a 24-Metre Slider
Two FANUC robots in a 9-axis configuration on a single 24-metre slider. Programs are prepared offline with AutoCAM Moses; programming time dropped by up to 80% and production time by up to 50%.
2025
- A continuous 24-metre floor slider track
- Collision-free simultaneous dual-robot kinematics
- AutoCAM Moses offline programming (both robots from one computer)
The customer's starting point
Teaching parts at that scale point by point took many hours, and production stood still throughout.
On long constructions, more than one robot had to work along the same track without collisions, both to limit distortion and to cut cycle time.
The system Robentex built
Robentex worked with FANUC Europe in two stages. After the results of the first robotic system, commissioned in 2024, the second system went live in the first month of 2025: two FANUC robots in a 9-axis configuration on a single 24-metre floor slider. The two robots work simultaneously on separate regions of a long construction along the same track, without colliding.
The other half of the system is software. Both robots are programmed offline in a 3D environment from a single computer using AutoCAM Moses. While the robots weld the current part on the floor, the engineer prepares the weld route for the next one at a desk; programming time is no longer downtime.
According to the customer, the result is an improvement of up to 80% in programming time and up to 50% in production time. Running two robots at once along a long construction also keeps thermal distortion from concentrating in one area.
Values measured after commissioning
- Programming Time
- Up to 80% faster
- Production Time
- Up to 50% faster
- Slider Length
- 24 metres
Thick sections and complex geometry, inside a series production flow.
The bodies of scrap metal processing machines are thick-sectioned, very large and complex in weld geometry. They are no longer welded as one-off jobs but inside a series production flow, and running two robots at once keeps thermal distortion from concentrating in one area.
- Robotic welding of thick, complex bodies
- Repeatable seams inside a series production flow
- Up to 50% faster production, as reported by the customer
Both robots, programmed from one computer.
Both robots are programmed offline in a 3D environment with AutoCAM Moses. While they weld the current part on the floor, the engineer prepares the route for the next one at a desk; programming time stops being downtime.
- Offline programming in a 3D environment
- Programs prepared in the background while the robot produces
- Up to 80% faster programming, as reported by the customer
One slider, 24 metres, two robots at once.
Two FANUC robots in a 9-axis configuration travel along a single 24-metre floor slider. They weld simultaneously on separate regions of a long construction, with working envelopes defined so they never collide.
- A continuous 24-metre floor slider track
- Two FANUC robots in a 9-axis configuration
- Simultaneous access to very large parts from every angle
“We achieved an improvement of up to 80% in programming times and up to 50% in production times.”
“We decided to move to robotic production in order to keep up with developing technology and increase our production capacity. Today, through the collaboration of Robentex, FANUC and AutoCAM Moses, we have reached the point of producing our parts within a series production flow. On our thick-sectioned and complex workpieces we achieved an enormous improvement; up to 80% in programming times and up to 50% in production times.”
Oğuz Taş Birim Makina
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