Certified Robots??????

By ScottVandenbos Date 07-19-2001 16:26

I know of the general process for certifying people to a standard. Is there anybody out there who has applied the standards to robotic welding? We are going from manual to robotic welding and I would like to know of somebody that has batteled the 'certified robot' war.

By R. Johnson (**)

Date 07-19-2001 20:38

ASME refers to robotic welding as automatic welding equipment and the operator as a welding operator.
Since our company was not doing any ASME work we classified them as machine operators just like someone running a lathe and only looked for training records and not qualification records.
We did establish internal company requirements for the robot programmers though. Hope this helps.

By tazman1 Date 08-17-2001 16:51

AWS D14.3 (section 7.4.1) outlines the requirements for Welding Operators. The Standard defines a "welding operator" as one who operates adaptive control, automatic, mechanized, or robotic welding equipment. The required tests are also spelled out. Good luck.