Patent AU-2017201941-A1 (AU)
Title: Method in manual welding
Inventor: JERNSTRÖM PETTERI
IPC: B23K9/095
Filed: 2017-03-22
Abstract: Abstract A manual welding system comprising: a welding device, an identification individualizing a welder that performs a welding operation with the welding device on an object to be welded, a welding instruction identification for the welding operation and at least one piece of information corresponding to the welding instruction identification, a server on which is saved the identification individualizing the welder, the at least one piece of information corresponding to the identification individualizing the welder, the welding instruction identification and the at least one piece of information corresponding to the welding instruction identification, and a data collection device connectable via a data network to the server for fetching and sending information, the data collection device having a memory for saving information and for storing the saved information, wherein the system is operable, before starting a welding operation, so that the data collection device: reads the identification individualizing the welder, fetches the identification individualizing the welder and the at least one piece of information corresponding to the identification individualizing the welder via the data network from the server and saves them in the memory or, alternatively, automatically fetches the identification corresponding to the identification individualizing the welder, that was read, and the at least one piece of information corresponding to the identification individualizing the welder from information already fetched from the server and saved in the memory, and reads the welding instruction identification, fetches the welding instruction identification and at least one piece of information corresponding to the welding instruction identification via the data network from the server and saves them in the memory or, alternatively, automatically fetches the welding instruction identification, that was read, and the at least one piece of information corresponding to the welding instruction identification from information already fetched from the server and saved in the memory, wherein the system is operable, during the welding operation, so that the data collection device: automatically collects information and/or readings of the welding operation from the welding device, and saves in the memory the information and/or readings of the welding operation that it has collected along with the point in time of occurrence associated with them, and wherein the system further: in an information consolidation step, combines the identifications fetched before starting the welding operation and the information and/or readings of the welding operation, that were collected and saved, such that they form an information package individualizing the welding operation and generates a report, and automatically reports deviations by comparing the identifications, that were read, and/or the information they contain, to each other and/or by comparing them with information and/or readings of the welding operation collected from the welding device. Fig.1. :106 Fig. 1