Automated tig welding

Anyone know of a place that offers automated tig welding? I have a new product that gets 3 plug welds in aluminum. I need nice looking consistant welds and a place that can do the QTY i need. thinking a robot is the way to go.

I'd be interested in what you come up with. I have often thought that putting together a TIG welding robot would be an interesting challenge. Seems like the best system would use a vision system tuned to "see" the puddle and coax it along not letting it get too big or too small.

If you ultimately you don't find any good solutions, I might be interested in giving it a shot.

It'd probably be a lot easier to find someone set up for robotic wire welding of aluminum. I've seen that done in the plant of a manufacturer of aluminum components used in specialized railroad cars, and it you didn't know it was wire you'd swear it was the most perfect tig work you'd ever seen.

A couple thoughts come to mind.
One is robotic wire feed tig.
The other is just robotic mig with modern power supplies.

Last time I was at Fabtech i saw OTC Daihen do some amazing looking aluminum mig welds with a robot.
Almega Arc Welding Robots - OTC DAIHEN Inc.

The OTC robot was a breeze to program. I messed with it for 10 minutes and was impressed.

We do automated tig and plasma welds here.

When you combine either process with wire, and get into funky assemblies it gets real fun

I dont want to nessisaraly build a robot system, at least not yet. I do have 1000 parts a month to plug weld. Its thin 6061 and wire welds too hot so the part warps or burns thru easily. I guess if someone could wire them and it works it wouldnt matter. Tig is just much cooler and has no issues when anodizing. I have 4 different welders welding them for me but i dont think they will be able to keep up because they are part time after their day job. I HOPE i am wrong but it want another backup plan, expecially if i doubble orders. I purchased a Lincoln 275 so we can do them in house as well.

I am most interested in a shop that offers the survice, i guess they can do it manualy if they are good and can supply me with as many as i need and all be perfect. Was looking into robot welding becasuse of the consistancy. I can run a good bead allong a seam, but making a prety plug is tough.

Sent you a PM, this is the kind of work I do.