Robotic Pipe Shop
Pipe spool automation transforms your entire fabrication process — from cutting and beveling to fit-up and welding — into one fully integrated robotic workflow. With KRANENDONK’s Robotic Pipe Shop, our engineers work closely with you to streamline your pipe spool production, ensuring precision, speed, and consistent weld quality at every stage. This minimizes manual labor, maximizes output, and gives you complete control over your shop floor operations.
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Pipe spool automation transforms your entire fabrication process — from cutting and beveling to fit-up and welding — into one fully integrated robotic workflow. With KRANENDONK’s Robotic Pipe Shop, our engineers work closely with you to streamline your pipe spool production, ensuring precision, speed, and consistent weld quality at every stage. This minimizes manual labor, maximizes output, and gives you complete control over your shop floor operations.
All you need to know
From material management to pipe spool welding, the Robotic Pipe Shop streamlines and optimise each and every pipe spool fabrication process . Explore the smart features behind KRANENDONK’s Robotic Pipe Shop.
Full-process integration
From cutting and beveling to fit-up and welding — all steps are aligned in one streamlined workflow, ensuring precision, consistency, and efficiency across your entire pipe spool fabrication process.
Precision beveling with ZEROGAP
The patented ZEROGAP bevel joint ensures zero root gap between pipe and fitting. This allows fast fit-up and exceptional weld quality with guaranteed consistency. No gaps and no guesswork, just perfect fit-up for every weld.
Accurate fit-up
Clamping tools and smart sensors align every pipe and fitting with millimeter precision. No gaps, no guesswork — just perfect prep for every weld.
Handles any spool
Whether elbows, tees, flanges or straight pipe: the Robotic Pipe Shop handles a wide range of fittings and wall thicknesses with consistent quality and minimal operator input.
Automated work preparation
PSWP is the smart layer between your engineering and production floor. It breaks down imported PCF files into workable 2D pipe spools, automatically detects weld joints, and applies the right beveling and welding parameters - all without manual input. The system handles both standard and non-standard spools, supports multi-pass welding, and intelligently distributes jobs across work cells based on pipe size, geometry, and workload. The result: consistent quality, faster production, and seamless communication between design and fabrication.
Trusted by leading yards
See how the Robotic Pipe Shop transforms pipe spool fabrication. In this short video, you’ll discover how automated cutting, beveling, fit-up, and welding come together in a seamless, high-output workflow — trusted by offshore, marine, and industrial fabricators worldwide.
Two approaches to pipe spool fabrication
Within KRANENDONK’s offering, two separate pipe spool fabrication systems are available. Each system follows a different production strategy.
- Robotic Pipe Shop: This system handles non-bendable pipe spools. KRANENDONK’s PSWP software fully defines each pipe spool in advance, including elbows, tees, and fittings. It then pushes the design directly into automated milling and welding.
- Flange Assembly Line: This line is perfect for bendable pipe spools. It first welds flanges onto straight pipes. The pipe then moves on to be bent into its final shape.
Shared solutions such as High Rise Storage, Logistics, and SPL modules can support both systems independently — ensuring smart material flow, buffer control, and traceability.
Robotic Pipe Shop
The Robotic Pipe Shop is a fully automated solution. It combines KRANENDONK’s Apollo Pipe Spool Milling Station and Aurora Spool Welding Station. With PSWP software, the system digitally defines each spool in advance — including elbows, tees, and fittings — and sends them to production within minutes Our patented ZEROGAP technology uses a male-female pipe connection. This ensures fast fit-up and better alignment, resulting in high-quality welds.
(Slip-On) Flange Welding Line
The (Slip-On) Flange Welding Line fully automates the process of assembly, fit-up and welding of slip-on flange onto straight pipe. A built-in scanner pinpoints the exact flange position and orientation. The system then carry out alignment, tack-welding and full welding - all in one streamlined workflow. The system handles a wide variety of slip-on pipe flange spool with minimal manual input.
Download the leaflet
Looking for all the details in one place? Download the Robotic Pipe Shop leaflet for a concise overview of specifications and features, perfect for sharing with your team or adding to your project documentation.
Only available in English
Download the leaflet
Looking for all the details in one place? Download the Robotic Pipe Shop leaflet for a concise overview of specifications and features, perfect for sharing with your team or adding to your project documentation.
Only available in English
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