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Huayan Robotics participated in the 2026 3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Welding Innovation Development Forum. During the forum, Huayan Robotics showcased its latest welding technologies and application solutions, highlighting how collaborative robots can improve welding quality, efficiency, and manufacturing flexibility. The forum brought together experts and industry representatives from shipbuilding, offshore engineering, energy, construction machinery, and steel structures to exchange ideas on the future of intelligent welding.
In industries such as shipbuilding and large-scale steel fabrication, heavy-duty and thick-plate welding present significant automation challenges. Large, non-standard workpieces, complex welding environments, and limited equipment mobility continue to constrain productivity. Many welding tasks still rely on manual operation, requiring welders to repeatedly reposition heavy equipment, while conventional gantry welding systems offer limited flexibility for changing production sites. Together with the shortage of skilled welders, harsh working conditions, and inconsistent manual welding quality, these challenges are accelerating demand for intelligent, flexible welding solutions.
Mobile, Collaborative Welding: Taking the Complexity Out of Large-Scale Welding
To address these challenges, Huayan Robotics has developed a flexible welding solution for large workpieces built around enhanced mobility. The solution combines a long-reach collaborative robot with an integrated wire feeder, welding power source, lightweight mobile platform, and a compact MES system, creating a flexible welding workstation. Designed for large-scale welding applications, the solution provides a more flexible and efficient approach to welding large workpieces.
Huayan collaborative robots can be paired with a variety of mobile platforms and accessories, including detachable lifting columns, linear rails, and magnetic bases, creating a highly scalable solution for large-scale welding. Together, they support linear travel, tight turns, navigation through narrow passages, and obstacle avoidance, making it well suited for confined and complex production environments. By significantly expanding the robot's working range, a single system can cover an entire workshop while reducing the need to lift and transport large workpieces. Huayan Robotics' long-reach collaborative robot also enables longer continuous welds and faster deployment, improving efficiency in large-scale welding applications.
For smarter welding management, Huayan Robotics integrates a workstation-level compact MES system into its welding cart. The system captures production data, process parameters, and welding records in real time, enabling end-to-end traceability and providing a solid foundation for digitalized welding operations and smart manufacturing.
Combining rapid deployment, extended continuous welding, and end-to-end data traceability, Huayan Robotics' solution overcomes the mobility and efficiency challenges of large-scale and thick-plate welding. Its adaptability across diverse production environments helps maximize equipment utilization and operational flexibility, while offering manufacturers a smarter, more versatile approach to complex welding applications.
Built with Welders in Mind
In both hardware and software development, Huayan Robotics works closely with its partners to deliver practical innovations for welding applications.
Dedicated Welding Teach Pendant – Compact and portable, the teach pendant features a 6D joystick for real-time weld path adjustment and precise positioning, enabling accurate teaching without manually moving the robot. Its physical buttons are designed for use in real-world welding environments, even when operators are wearing gloves or handling oily workpieces. Customizable shortcut keys provide one-touch access to frequently used functions, making operation especially convenient in confined spaces such as ship cabins.
Simplified Graphical User Interface – The intuitive single-page interface streamlines complex teaching workflows through visual icons and a “what you see is what you operate” design approach. Welders can complete operations without memorizing commands or navigating complex menus, significantly reducing learning time while minimizing operator workload and the risk of errors.
User-Centered Drag Teaching – Designed around real-world welding scenarios, Huayan Robotics’ collaborative robots offer both rapid positioning and fine adjustment modes. By separating rough positioning from precise alignment, the system improves teaching efficiency while addressing long-standing accuracy challenges, significantly reducing the time required for single-point teaching.
As a leading collaborative robot manufacturer in China with strong market presence, Huayan Robotics continues to develop solutions based on welding needs. Through close collaboration with industry partners, its robots have been widely deployed across shipbuilding, bridge and architectural steel structures, construction machinery, automotive components, hardware manufacturing, and other industries, accumulating extensive application experience.
Looking ahead, Huayan Robotics will continue to advance its welding-focused innovations and strengthen collaboration across the industry ecosystem. By delivering smarter and more flexible collaborative robot solutions, the company aims to work with partners to build a welding automation ecosystem better aligned with real-world application needs. Through this continued effort, Huayan Robotics is accelerating the transformation of welding from a labor-intensive process toward a data-driven intelligent manufacturing model, contributing to the high-quality development of advanced equipment manufacturing.
