Advanced Welding Quality Control

Welding Guard is an innovative system to ensure welding quality at an industrial level. It allows for real-time monitoring of the electrode's center of gravity relative to the center of gravity of the welded tube.

Welding Guard is used to improve or replace current quality control systems thanks to 4 unique features:
1) Real-time control with a single camera
– live viewing of the welding:

• immediate detection of critical situations and possible machine shutdown

• recording and documentation for process assurance, further analysis, and subsequent checks

2) Flexibility of the hybrid DSP/ARM core system
– Texas Instruments TMS320C64+TM DSP for H264@15 fps encoding
– Real-time processing ARM

3) Ease of use
– Visualization, calibration, and management operations via a web interface
– Web streaming viewable with commercial media players (VLC, Windows Media Player, etc.)
– Can operate as a stand-alone unit or interfaced with existing structures

4) Wide connectivity to the outside world
– Parameterizable digital I/O
– RJ45 connector for Ethernet 10/100 Mbit
– BNC connector for analog PAL/NTSC video for direct machine-side viewing
– Generation of IoT datagrams for Industry 4.0 applications