Programmable Welding & Cutting Machine

Bug-O Gantry and Side Beam Units are custom designed assemblies that are used in a variety of applications such as automated seam welding, beam and stiffener fabrication as well as cutting applications such as stripping and edge preparation. A wide range of gantry and side beam carriage designs are available and can be used to suite a specific application. Systems are available in programmable or manually operated versions.

The Programmable Stiffener Welder is a self-contained, dual head welding travel carriage with integrated wire feeders and spool mounts. It will produce continuous or programmable intermittent fillet welds on stiffeners with heights of 4" to 18" (102-457mm) and widths of 4" to 12" (102-305mm). The unit is self propelled and runs directly on the stiffener. Spring loaded floating torch holders compensate and maintain torch standoff with variations of work piece fit-up. The machine can be used with solid or cored welding wire

The modular drive programmable shape machine is an easy to use 2-axis machine which you can program to run any contour or pattern for both welding or cutting applications. A handheld terminal supplied with the machine issued to program the required shape and operation sequence. Other functions besides moves can be programmed,such as repeats, starts, stops, delays, and rapid traverse. Twenty programs can be stored in machine memory at any one time. An optional computer software program is available. With this program you can select pre- programmed shapes or create your own custom shapes, and store and edit any number of them on disk. Selected shapes can then be downloaded to the machine as needed. The modular drive programmable shape machine is compact and portable and can be easily carried through out your facility or job site. The system can be configured to run on all types of bug-O rail. It is held in position with either powerful permanent magnets or vacuum cups, depending on the work material. This enables you to take the machine to the work, which will help reduce your material handling.

The Modular Drive System is the only product in the industry that allows the user to configure one machine for various automated applications,now and in the future!Future development has been engineered into the system allowing its modular components to be easily upgraded. As tomorrow’s technologies are introduced, the Modular Drive System can be enhanced to take advantage of new features and capabilities as they are perfected.Other systems will be obsolete as the Modular Drive System will remain “state of the art” in portable motion control!

The GO-FER III Oxy- fuel kit is used for straight line cuts and weld preparation beveling. The kit comes complete with the exception of a torch. The bug-O torch holder will accept any standard 1-3/8" (35 mm) diameter machine torch with a 32 pitch gear rack. The quick-action gas manifold mounted to the rear of the machine is used as a strain reliever for the torch and also gives the operator the ability to turn on and off the pre- heat gases without having to readjust the gas flow of the torch.

The PIPER-BUG is a self contained, digitally controlled, mechanized pipe welding system,producing high deposition rates with excellent weld quality to reduce pipe welding costs.Increased duty cycle and arc-on time provide significant improvements in productivity. All welding parameters, including voltage, wire feed speed, current, travel and oscillation reprogrammable and digitally controlled with the Piper-Bug.Manual pipe welding requires a high level of training and skill. As skilled pipe welders become more difficult to find, mechanized welding is uneconomical alternative. Less welder skill and physical effort are required using mechanized welding. Handheld wire welding results Ina typical operating factor (or percent arc-onetime) of 40-50%, mechanizing increases the operating factor to 70% or higher. The increased arc on time reduces the number of welders and welding stations required. Also, the precise procedure control and excellent repeatability ensures consistent weld quality around each pipe joint and from one joint to the next.

The UNI-BUG II will carry cutting torch or welding gun into tight work areas or around very tight curves without the use of attack. The built-in carrying handle allows for easy mounting and removal at any point along the workpiece. The UNI-BUG II can weld or cut both straight lines and radii as small as 6" (152 mm). It will travel at speeds of 4-75 ipm(102-1905 mm/min) with a 50 lb.(22.7 kg) load capacity.The UNI-BUG II is designed torn on the edge of a bar or stiffener up to 2" (50.8 mm) thick as shown below. Front and rear rollers support the machine and tilt it forward for better control and traction. This also sets the working direction. The machine must returned around to weld the other side of the workpiece.

• Produce stitch or continuous welds
• Programmable by distance
• Runs directly on the workpiece
• Carriage attachments designed to run a variety of structural steel profiles.

The UNI-BUG III will make continuous or intermittentstitch welds. The machine will mount and run directly on thework piece. The unit is available in a variety of kits. Each kitis designed to fit on a specific steel profile such as flat bar,angle, channel, I-beams and bulb flats (holland profiles).
The UNI-BUG III features stitch welding which isprogrammable by distance. If you require stitch welding simplyset the selector switch to the intermittent weld setting andprogram the length of weld required, the length of skip andalso the required delay for pre-flow and burn back. Throughthe use of an integrated weld contactor the UNI-BUG III willactivate and deactivate your wire feeder automatically.