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WELDING

PITFALL 3: Limited De? nition

Expand the de? nition of automation beyond physical movement to automating data and process management.

Look for solutions and software applications at every step of the work? ow. Digitize document and record management

PITFALL 2: Don’t judge productivity purely by travel (PQRs, WPSs, WPQs) and QA/QC tasks. Software can save speed. Also consider processes stability, repeatability, lower time, lower costs, reduce the chance of human data-entry post-weld clean-up, ability to reduce bevel angle and the error, provide faster progress updates, and enable analytic ability to retro