04.09.2026
Companies
Lorch Schweißtechnik expands its Cobot Welding World with the iQS welding power source. This now makes the company’s latest power source generation available to its users for collaborative welding as well. The combination merges welding processes and integrated digitalisation with Lorch's Cobot concept, resulting in an automation solution that meets the high demands on welding quality and process safety while keeping operation simple.
Easy start into welding automation
The demand for flexible automation solutions keeps growing. A lack of specialists, smaller batch sizes and rising diversity of variants challenge metal-processing companies to produce economically efficiently without implementing elaborate robotics projects. The Lorch Cobot Welding World allows simple entry into welding automation and is targeted at companies without any prior knowledge in robotics and at experienced automation users alike.
Cobot and power source with a single operating interface
Lorch now integrates the iQS to expand this concept by its latest generation of welding power sources. A specially developed interface was created to facilitate seamless communication between the cobot and the power source. Users can adjust and monitor all relevant welding parameters directly via the teach panel without having to keep walking back to the power source. Programming and process control happen on a consistent user interface that can be operated with various power source operation concepts, without any requirements to previous experience.
New welding processes and digital evaluation
RCS (Rapid Current Shutdown) technology makes sure that the process runs cleanly, increasing weld seam quality and reducing spatter. Added to this is a new inverter that renders processes even more stable and calm. The cobot version of the iQS integrates the feed roll, gas cylinder, increased water cooling and cylinder cart into the overall system. It supplements the myCobot modular kit with components that can be combined by plug & play and retrofitted at any time.
The iQS records digital data such as welding values from the power source allowing the operator to visualise and evaluate them via Lorch Connect. “The iQS with the cobot allows us to offer the highest quality class possible in welding. An experienced welder operating this combination will result in a premium solution,” says Caren Dripke, head of the robotics development department at Lorch. “The decisive element is not the company size, but the expected welding results.”
Welding know-how stays with the user
The Cobot Welding World remains faithful to its basic principle of welders guiding the cobot to the desired positions manually or via the teach panel to create the program sequence rather than programming it with complex robot languages. The necessary welding know-how is brought along by the user and will remain with them, while the cobot reliably takes over repeat tasks. Integration of the iQS now expands this concept by Lorch’s high-performance welding technology.
(Source: Lorch Schweißtechnik GmbH)
Schlagworte
AutomationCobotDigitalizationDilgitalisationITRobotSoftwareWelderWeldingWelding ParametersWelding Power Source
