Zhouxiang's Three Intelligent Welding Production Lines Currently, shipbuilding is rapidly moving towards larger scale, greater precision, and greener practices. As a national-level key "Little Giant" enterprise specializing in specialized and innovative technologies, Zhouxiang has been deeply involved in the R&D and manufacturing of welding and cutting equipment for 35 years. Relying on over a hundred independent core patents, it focuses on the pain points of ship steel structure processing and has tailored an intelligent solution system covering the entire process.

Full-Process Intelligent T-Bar Fabrication Production Line

This production line is dedicated to providing an integrated, full-process manufacturing solution for shipbuilding T-bar fabrication. Covering four key processes—panel edge chamfering, assembly, welding, and straightening—it enables continuous, stable, and efficient production from raw panel/web plate materials to finished T-bar structural components.

The core equipment of the production line includes: automatic panel/web plate loading devices, T-Bar panel edge chamfering machines, T-Bar automatic assembly and tack welding machines, T-Bar multi-electrode automatic welding machines (i.e., “T-Bar Multi-Head Gantry Welding Machines”), T-Bar straightening machines, transverse buffer storage systems, roller conveyors, turnover devices, and other auxiliary equipment.

Except for the panel and web plate loading processes, as well as the unloading of finished T-bars after straightening, which require crane handling, all other workpiece transfers throughout the production line are completed by automatic roller conveyors or transverse transfer mechanisms. This enables fully automated material flow across the entire line. The production line provides a one-stop solution to meet shipyards’ requirements for high-volume, high-quality, and stable T-Bar fabrication, delivering a Fully Automated T-Bar Fabrication Line for Smart Shipyards that helps users reduce costs, improve efficiency, and meet the future development needs of smart shipyard construction.

Intelligent Flat Panel Block Panel Joining and Welding Production Line

This production line integrates the complete process from steel plate panel assembly → front-side panel welding → automatic 180° panel turning → back-side weld seam gouging → back-side panel welding → CNC marking → longitudinal stiffener installation → longitudinal stiffener welding → back-gouging → reserved process station → finished-product discharge. It covers the entire workflow of flat panel block fabrication, from panel joining through longitudinal stiffener assembly and welding.

The production line addresses key industry challenges, including low fabrication accuracy, inefficient manual assembly, and inconsistent weld quality, enabling intelligent, seamless, and continuous production throughout the entire process.

The equipment across both production lines offers a high degree of automation, featuring high positioning accuracy and stable weld quality. It can significantly reduce labor costs while meeting the needs of shipyards for high-volume production at different scales.

Built with robust and durable machine structures, the equipment is equipped with an intelligent electrical control system for easy operation and maintenance. These solutions help shipbuilding companies achieve tangible improvements in cost reduction, quality enhancement, and production efficiency, making them an ideal choice for supporting equipment in shipbuilding steel structure production lines.

Intelligent Welding Workstation for Sub-Assembly

In response to the current challenges facing the shipbuilding industry—including surging order volumes, insufficient production capacity, and low levels of automation—Zhoxiang has developed an Intelligent Welding Workstation for Sub-Assembly featuring a “One Master, Multiple Slaves” collaborative architecture.

The workstation integrates a range of core technologies, including 3D model import, intelligent path planning, high-precision laser seam positioning, dynamic collision avoidance, and adaptive parameter matching, achieving weld seam positioning accuracy of up to ±0.1 mm.

Equipped with Bochu’s teaching-free welding system, the workstation allows welding programs to be created once and repeatedly reused, eliminating reliance on manual teach programming. This significantly improves welding consistency, production efficiency, and first-pass yield.

With its three major production lines as the fulcrum, Zhouxiang has built a full-process intelligent manufacturing system for ship steel structures, and provides full life-cycle services including customized solutions, process testing, installation and commissioning, practical training and lifelong technical support, to help shipyards reduce costs, improve quality, increase efficiency and safety, and accelerate their move towards a new stage of intelligent manufacturing.

Zhouxiang Enterprise

Specializes in the production of H-beam light and heavy steel production lines, box beam production lines, horizontal production lines, double-joint welding and straightening automatic lines, steel structure robot intelligent workstations, and various intelligent production lines; including CNC flame plasma cutting machines, fiber laser flatbed cutting machines, laser pipe cutting machines, tube-sheet integrated machines, handheld laser welding machines, H-beam assembly machines, gantry submerged arc welding machines, H-beam straightening machines, shot blasting machines, H-beam assembly welding and straightening integrated machines, welding special machines, auxiliary machines, etc.

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