Convergence between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robots Drive Trends Toward Automation, Digitization, and Sustainability
Welding is a versatile and essential fabrication process that uses heat to join metals together, either similar or dissimilar metals. Unlike brazing and soldering which use a lower temperature for metal fusion, welding technologies operate at very high temperatures. Welding is the most-used fabrication technique across all industry verticals. With fully automated welding solutions witnessing radical adoption across the manufacturing industry, the technology maturity level is very high.
With respect to automation, there are semi-automated and fully automated welding solutions. Semi-automated welding solutions are used predominantly for manufacturing a limited volume of products and require an operator to manually load the parts onto the fixture. Fully automated welding solutions can be programmed to perform repetitive welding work.
The industry is developing new welding solutions to minimize negative environmental impacts and conserve energy and natural resources. Manufacturers in various industries are adopting highly automated, AI-based cobot welding solutions to improve manufacturing processes. This report covers the welding technologies/trends and solutions that improve manufacturing processes’ efficiency and optimize plants; it provides an in-depth analysis of the welding technologies seeing high adoption in the manufacturing industry.
The study covers the following topics:
- Technology landscape and trends
- Technology attractiveness
- Technology adoption factors: drivers and challenges
- Welding symbols and defect symbols
- Trends and major industry participants’ development strategies
- Growth opportunities and future roadmap
