Welding and the automation frontier.

“A good job for drilling down into the specifics of automation is welding. Welding today exists right on the “automation frontier” — some industries, like car manufacturing, have automated nearly all their welding, while others, like construction, have automated very little of it. Welding also encompasses a fairly narrow set of tasks that have changed comparatively little over a long period of time. This makes it easy to understand what, specifically, is being automated, how automation capabilities have advanced, and how advancing automation has affected welding employment.” ~ learn more