Design and Fabrication of Automatic Welding Manipulator for Oil and Gas Pipeline Welding

Welding is a familiar process in oil and gas industry however, the shortage of man power with the expertise is decreasing. In order to prevent loss due to poor quality of weldment, manipulators has been implemented most of the oil and gas company. Still, there were none manipulators that have been established as for the purpose of oil and gas pipeline welding. This project present a welding manipulator that is designed especially for the purposed of oil and gas pipeline welding, included in this report also the mechanical structure design and the mechanism of the manipulators. The drawing and the design will be performed by using SOLIDWORK 2015 where proper geometric relation such as the material specification and dimension.