Welding Process Data Management - openBIS workflows and lab integration
- Arc welding processes are an important manufacturing technology applied to a wide range of critical materials and components such as offshore constructions, pressure vessels and additive manufacturing. Data management for experimental arc welding research faces the challenge of constantly changing experimental setups, incorporating a wide range of custom sensor integrations. Measurements include timeseries process and temperature recordings, 3D-geometry data and video recordings of the process from a sub-millisecond scale to multiple hour-long experiments. In addition, various manual pre-processing steps of the workpieces need to be considered to track the complete manufacturing process and its analysis – from raw materials to final dataset and publication.
As a unified RDM system, the BAM Data Store offers the capability to incorporate all steps – albeit not without its own challenges.
The talk gives an overview of the different workflows and processing steps along the weldingArc welding processes are an important manufacturing technology applied to a wide range of critical materials and components such as offshore constructions, pressure vessels and additive manufacturing. Data management for experimental arc welding research faces the challenge of constantly changing experimental setups, incorporating a wide range of custom sensor integrations. Measurements include timeseries process and temperature recordings, 3D-geometry data and video recordings of the process from a sub-millisecond scale to multiple hour-long experiments. In addition, various manual pre-processing steps of the workpieces need to be considered to track the complete manufacturing process and its analysis – from raw materials to final dataset and publication.
As a unified RDM system, the BAM Data Store offers the capability to incorporate all steps – albeit not without its own challenges.
The talk gives an overview of the different workflows and processing steps along the welding experiments together with their integration into the BAM Data Store. Current solutions and ongoing integration work is explained and discussed. This includes the direct integration and upload of automated processing steps into the Data Store from different machines and sensors using custom Python APIs.
Ultimately the complete processing chain across multiple internal steps should be represented in the Data Store.…

