Process monitoring and industrial informatics for on-line optimization of Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS) in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) – Industry 4.0 for robotic additive re-manufacturing of aeroengine components

French, R., Benakis, M. and Marin-Reyes, H. orcid.org/0000-0002-2919-5388 (2019) Process monitoring and industrial informatics for on-line optimization of Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS) in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) – Industry 4.0 for robotic additive re-manufacturing of aeroengine components. In: 2018 3rd International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM). 2018 3rd International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), 18-20 Jul 2018, Singapore. IEEE , pp. 812-817. ISBN 978-1-5386-7066-8

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Industry 4.0, the scheme that drives the fourth industrial revolution, has been, since its conception, reshaping the manufacturing industry. To advance current industrial chains into the smart factories of the future, cyber-physical systems are monitored and communicate with each other to ensure transparent interoperability, giving birth to the emerging field of industrial informatics. To enable the repair and recycling of high value jet engine compressor blades, additive manufacturing is utilized. The complex geometries and asymmetrical wear of the blades require robotic welding systems to be trained by experienced human welding engineers in order to be able to adapt to differing components. Demonstrated in this paper, process monitoring and industrial informatics are introduced to the adaption of Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS) utilized by a developing robotic system for the additive re-manufacturing of aeroengine components. Using a novel variant of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), the robotic welding system under development is a product of an industry-academia collaboration between the Enabling Sciences for Intelligent Manufacturing Group (ESIM) of the University of Sheffield and VBC Instrument Engineering Ltd.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
Authors/Creators:	French, R. Benakis, M. Marin-Reyes, H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2919-5388
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Keywords:	Welding; Blades; Additives; Maintenance engineering; Service robots
Dates:	Published: 14 January 2019 Published (online): 14 January 2019 Accepted: 2 May 2018
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield)
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) UNSPECIFIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL ST/M001938/1 INNOVATE UK (TSB) UNSPECIFIED ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) UNSPECIFIED EPSRC CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURING IN LARGE-AREA ELECTRONICS UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	05 Jul 2018 11:05
Last Modified:	14 Jan 2020 01:38
Published Version:	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARM.2018.8610808
Status:	Published
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1109/ICARM.2018.8610808
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:132944

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