HeatCore AI — Seam Tracking on a Replayed Lab Weld
The Tracking panel of the current HeatCore AI software, on the replay of one real weld recorded in the Therness lab (not live production): where the seam is, how wide it is and how far it sits from the line you set.
What the clip shows
- Arc ROI, seam ROI, weld axis and reference line drawn on the thermal image.
- Seam angle (°), seam width (mm) and offset from the reference line (mm), updated every frame.
- An offset-over-time plot with the accepted range set in the panel.
- A temperature profile along the ROI line, and the replay timeline with its anomaly markers.
What to check in a pilot
- The working distance and accepted range that fit your joint, entered in millimetres.
- Whether the offset trace stays readable on your material, wire and shielding gas.
- How the offset record lines up with your WPS and with the part's inspection result.
- Whether you want an alarm signal to the controller: set up on project.
About this clip
A seam that drifts from where the program expects it moves the arc off the joint, and the first visible symptom is often a bead that is fine on one side and short of fusion on the other. Reading the seam position from the thermal image gives a record of that drift in millimetres, per frame, instead of a judgement made on the finished bead. The clip is a replay of one lab recording in the HeatCore AI software, screen-recorded with the Therness interface; it is not a production cell and it shows no customer part. On circumferential joints the same offset record is what you would read around the revolution — the article on circumferential welds explains what to look for at the tie-in, and cooling behaviour on orbital tube welds covers the thermal side.
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No voice-over. The clip opens on the Camera Stream of a replayed lab weld with the Tracking panel on the right. The ROI controls list the arc ROI, the seam ROI, the weld axis and the reference line, with the working distance and the accepted range in millimetres. While the recording plays, the seam angle, seam width and offset values update and the offset-over-time plot draws its trace inside the accepted range; the timeline reads «No anomalies».
