Last October I went from downhill stick on 12-inch pipe to babysitting a small Fanuc cobot with a Fronius TPSi, and the surprise was how much our old habits — joint prep, heat control, and reading puddle — still carry the day. If you’re eyeing a change, give yourself two weeks on the teach pendant and one solid WPS to anchor settings; the rest is patience and asking why before turning knobs — anyone else make this leap lately?
Biggest gain on our TPSi cell was turning on WireSense for root passes and saving offsets per joint prep; it killed half the “why is the puddle walking?” moments after heat soak. Your “two weeks” is right, but add an hour to make a nozzle stickout gauge and a 60‑sec daily TCP check — catches cobot flex before it shows in tie-in. Also log arc length correction and travel speed tweaks in the WPS so you can roll back fast when a fixture warms up, @thomas_cla91.