Review and Prospect of Xionggu Automatic Pipeline Welding Machine

Xionggu Electrical initiated R&D of automatic pipeline welding machine in 2007. The first A-300 single torch external automatic pipeline welding machine was put into operation in the second line of West-East natural gas pipeline project in 2009. It has been more than ten years since the birth of Xionggu automatic pipeline welding machine.

In the past ten years, the automatic welding machine of Xionggu Pipeline has successively participated in the pipeline projects such as West-to-East 2ndgas pipeline, Zhonggui Line, Mohe-Daqing 2ndLine, Shanxi-Beijing 4thline, Russia-China eastern line and Ancang pipeline, as well as overseas projects such as Haradh pipeline project of Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia, Bab crude oil pipeline of ADNOC in UAE and the 5thnatural gas pipeline in Thailand. Xionggu automatic pipeline welding machine has been awarded the Scientific and Technological Achievements Award of Chengdu Science and Technology Bureau, Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Department and CNPC Engineering Construction System successively. It has passed the strict certification of Gazprom and Transneft in Russia.

In the past ten years, Xionggu not only completed the research and development from the prototype of automatic pipeline welding machine to the series of completed automatic pipeline welding machine crew, but also accumulated the core technology of automatic pipeline welding machine, forming its own unique technical excellence in arc tracking technology, high strength steel pulsed welding power source technology, remote data management system and so on. The one-time qualified rate of pipeline welding is over 98%, which has been highly appraised and recognized by customers.

Looking ahead to the future of China's manufacturing industry, labor costs will continue to rise. On the other hand, fewer and fewer young people are willing to engage in traditional welding operations. The transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing requires higher and higher welding quality, especially for pressure pipelines such as oil, gas and thermal pipelines. In order to fundamentally solve the problems in China's pipeline welding industry, Xionggu Electrical is upgrading the existing automatic pipeline welding machine to make them more intelligent, realizing the real intelligent pipeline welding, reducing the dependence on the personal technology and experience of traditional welding operators, and reducing the labor intensity of welding operators. The real-time accurate control of welding parameters is realized to ensure qualification rate and consistency of welding quality.