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TECHNOLOGY “One of the issues prior to this project when using robots for manufacturing that had high variability was the amount of time that it took to program the robot to do the weld. Our ability to quickly generate that path – that information – is where the savings lie.

So those past problems aren’t as valid as they once were. A lot of folks are going to reconsider this possibility now. Automated weld- ing is nothing new. But, the barrier to entry has been signi