Integrated Design of a Workstation with Multiple Lightweighting Joining Processes

The purpose of this paper is to design a low-cost multi-new joining process integration workstation for pilot production center and pre-production plant for small-lot customization projects of typical dissimilar material joining in passenger cars in the era of passenger car stock market. The workstation can be used not only for SPR, FDS, Clinch and other processes of small batch customized workpiece manufacturing, but also for workpiece process parameter testing, typical equipment integration scheme testing, data acquisition and digital control testing. To this end, for the above typical process application scenarios and possible expansion scenarios, the overall scheme of the workstation is designed, the method of switching different process tools by a single robot based on a modular tool changer is proposed, the modular power supply and network scheme of the equipment is designed, the automatic workflow of the workstation is planned, and the PLC safety program and the program of the robot switching the process axes are written and tested, and programs for equipment data acquisition and analysis were also proposed and initially tested and passed.