The Electron Beam Welding process provides the following options:

The Electron Beam Welding operation provides the following option:

By default, machine selection considers only standard and cycle machines. It does not include load lock machines for consideration, due to their higher purchase price and overhead. You can override the default, and direct machine selection to consider only load lock machines, by setting this setup option to true.

See Process Time for information about standard, cycle, and load lock machines. See also Machine Selection.

By default, the cost model assumes that each welding cycle handles one part. With this setup option, you can override the default. Choose one of the following:

By default, this is the value of the machine property Number of Operators (1 in starting point VPEs). With this setup option, you can override the default, and specify a different number of operators.

This is the time to load the machine for one welding cycle. By default, this is the product of per-part load time and Number of Parts in the Machine per Cycle. Per-part load time is looked up by part weight in the lookup table componentLoadTime. See also Process Time.

You can override the default with this setup option.

This is the time to unload the machine for one welding cycle. By default, this is the product of per-part unload time and Number of Parts in the Machine per Cycle. Per-part unload time is looked up by part weight in the lookup table componentLoadTime. See also Process Time.

You can override the default with this setup option.

By default, this is calculated based on machine power and weld depth, and bounded above by the machine’s maximum weld speed (see Process Time). You can override the default with this setup option.