Electron Beam Welding Options
The Electron Beam Welding process provides the following options:
The Electron Beam Welding operation provides the following option:
Is the EB Welding Machine a Load Lock Machine
By default, machine selection considers only standard and cycle machines. It does not include load lock machines for consideration, due to their higher purchase price and overhead. You can override the default, and direct machine selection to consider only load lock machines, by setting this setup option to true.
See Process Time for information about standard, cycle, and load lock machines. See also Machine Selection.
Number of Parts in the Machine per Cycle
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Optimize Number of Parts for the selected machine: this calculates the number of parts that can fit in the machine chamber (see Machine Selection).
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User Override: enter a number of parts.
Number of Operators
By default, this is the value of the machine property Number of Operators (1 in starting point Digital Factories). With this setup option, you can override the default, and specify a different number of operators.
Time to Load the Assembly
This is the time to load the machine for one welding cycle. By default, this is the product of per-part load time and Number of Parts in the Machine per Cycle. Per-part load time is looked up by part weight in the lookup table componentLoadTime. See also Process Time.
You can override the default with this setup option.
Time to Unload the Assembly
This is the time to unload the machine for one welding cycle. By default, this is the product of per-part unload time and Number of Parts in the Machine per Cycle. Per-part unload time is looked up by part weight in the lookup table componentLoadTime. See also Process Time.
You can override the default with this setup option.
Weld Speed
By default, this is calculated based on machine power and weld depth, and bounded above by the machine’s maximum weld speed (see Process Time). You can override the default with this setup option.