Welding Sites! Problems of Current Welding Sites

Due to population decline, manufacturing sites are facing a shortage of production manpower and an aging skilled workforce. Traditional labor-intensive welding methods are no longer sufficient to address pressing challenges such as reduced output and rising costs.

Welding quality can vary significantly depending on the welder’s skill level and physical condition, equipment status, and environmental factors. For example, even when the same welder performs the work, welding quality can vary from day to day; maintaining consistency is also difficult due to fluctuations in equipment condition.

To overcome difficulties in securing manpower, production sites are accelerating the adoption of welding automation. However, simply introducing automated welding equipment does not fully resolve the issues. The operator’s lack of welding expertise and the inability to detect welding defects in real time mean that when issues arise, large-scale rework is often required, and simply introducing equipment is not enough to solve the problem.

It is extremely difficult to collect and manage welding work data systematically using traditional welding management methods. In large-scale work involving multiple personnel, it is practically impossible to check essential management items accurately such as estimating the manpower input, calculating the work progress, calculating defect rates, and estimating production costs; thus making it very challenging to manage quality and production systematically.

Furthermore, due to market trends, prime contractors are increasingly demanding welding data from the production process. As a result, the cost of managing this data continues to rise in line with increasing labor expenses.