Automates Overlay/Cladding Welding Operations
The Gullco KAT® Indexing System is typically used to automate single or multi-head overlay/cladding welding operations, hard surfacing, etc. The automatic routine drives a motorised device (either the KAT® carriage or the motorised rack arm), cycling back and forth between limit switches. When the device that is cycling reaches a limit switch, it pauses, and the other motorised device starts to index the gun/torch a pre-set distance in a pre-set direction. An Arc Signal Relay is supplied with the system to provide integrated arc activation signals to the overlay/surfacing equipment. Two GSP controls, each with dedicated microprocessor chips, are used to control the automatic, two-axis indexing system. One GSP control is the Cycle Control and the other is the Index Control. Each control offers user-programmable parameters/variables to allow fine-tuning and functional control of the automatic cycle. Gullco Indexing Systems, enable repetitive overlay/ surfacing cycles to be performed, with the precise motion of the gun/torch from start to finish, regardless of the number of passes of the workpieces involved.
Main Components: KAT® Travel Carriage, KAT® Carriage/Indexer controls, Motorised Indexer Rack Box, Heavy Duty Rack Arm, Control Cable, Limit Switch activators for Carriage and Rack Arm, Torch Holder for standard MIG gun.