Arc Quip, the Manufacturer of the Star Weld Range of Welding Equipment Was Established

Arc Quip, the manufacturer of the Star Weld range of welding equipment was established in April 2010. The company markets and sells welding equipment, into a variety of sectors of industry.

At the beginning of June 2012 Arc Quip launched the manufacturing, and marketing, of the Star Weld range of welding inverters. The Star Weld range is a comprehensive range of welding equipment, that covers all the main forms of welding, from MMA, MIG and TIG, to Submerged Arc.

The technology being used in the design of this equipment, makes use of the latest developments in the electronic industry. This marks the first time, that this technology has been used by a South African welding inverter manufacturer.

Attention has been given, to a design that is robust, and able to perform in the demanding local conditions. The equipment has further been designed in such a way, that operation has been simplified for ease of use.

Arc Quip also provides further support by developing welding automation solutions, supplying consumables, and performing welding equipment repairs. Arc Quip also performs onsite welding equipment validation adhering to the ISO17662 standard.

In June 2014 Arc Quip increased its capability and capacity to deliver the complete automation solution by acquiring “Arcomatic Machines cc” from Greg Devine. Arcomatic was the largest manufacturer of welding manipulators and ancillary products in South Africa. Greg Devine has been retained on a consultancy basis in order to facilitate the transfer of his vast know how and experience.

STEVE HUTCHINSON: Steve has been involved in the South African welding industry, for over 35 years. He was involved with the marketing launch of the Modweld range of welding inverters at the end of the 1990’s. He is responsible for the marketing of the Star Weld range of inverters.

ROBERT CASE: Over the last 15 years, Robert has designed Inverter Based Welding Machines, Automated Welding Interfaces, Power Electronic Equipment for the Synthetic Diamond Manufacturing Industry, and Gold Recovery Equipment for the Mining Industry. He has also designed Heat Treatment Equipment for the Power Generation Industry.

GREG DEVINE: Greg has spent the last 35 years in the Welding Automation Industry, having worked with all the Major Welding Houses.He has designed and built welding manipulation equipment, capable of handling anything from a few kilograms, up to 200 tons. His specialities include Welding Turn Tables, Rotators, Column and Booms, Lathe Rotators and Strip Clampers.

He has over 500 of his machines in operation, throughout South Africa and neighbouring states.

The 100T roller bed set is capable of supporting 50T per section (that is drive section and idler section). The drive section is capable of rotating 150T in the event that two idlers are used.

The roller bed is a self-aligning version and will be able to accommodate vessel diameters of 2000mm to 7000mm.

The wheels will be coat with Polyurethane to a shore hardness specification of 95, this is the same as the Vulkollan requested in the quote.

Both drive section and idler section can be moved up and down a rail track section, this track will have the same spacing as presently on site, that is 1730mm. The drive section will be motorized in its movement. It will however not have a cable rack on the floor as the drive only requires a 380V cable to operate and this can simply be a standard extension that is kept out of the way of the rails.

Rotational speed as per specification up to 1200mm/min, minimum speed to ensure stability and constant speed will be set at 10% of this, therefore the minimum speed will be 120mm/min, there will be two motors driving the rotation instead of the smaller design which uses one motor with a shaft going to 2 gearboxes.

Please note this roller bed set will be custom built for the application so will be designed to suit the application 100% and can be built to resemble the customer’s existing equipment, we do not build only to our fixed design and expect the customer to adhere to our design, rather we design and build to what is 100% suitable.

CONTROL PANEL:

The control panel will mount on the side of the motorized roller bed.

The control panel will have a number of 22mm rotary switches to control the operation. The operations that will be controlled are:

Stop, Start, Forward / Reverse and Speed Control.

All these functions will be interfaced to a microcontroller PCB so that the speed ref will be displayed on the front panel using an LED display. As shown below is a control panel from a 600T rotator set that we are currently building, the 100T rotator set will simply be a smaller box although with the same features.

For remote operation a wireless crane remote will be used to utilized to enable the control of the same parameters. Please note there is no speed display on the remote.

The wireless receiver will also be interfaced to the micro controller board, this allows for seamless change over between local and remote control as well improved ability to always start at the required speed. By pressing the up and down push buttons on can adjust the speed up or down.

CONTROL PANEL:

The control panel will mount on the side of the motorized roller bed.

The control panel will have a number of 22mm rotary switches to control the operation. The operations that will be controlled are:

Stop, Start, Forward / Reverse and Speed Control.

Delivery will be 8-10 weeks from date of order.

50% deposit on order.

40% payment of delivery and installation

10% 30days after commissioning

Please note the above price excludes VAT

1 year warranty against defects in material, poor workmanship or design on all column and booms, and rotators.

GRI South Africa Quote – Self Aligning Welding Rotators 17/07/2015 Page | 4