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Lead photo: (From left) Carey Chen, AWS executive director and CEO; Jeff Noruk, WAEC conference chair and Servo Robot president; keynote speaker Jeff Burnstein, Association for Advancing Automation (A3) president; and Doug Rhoda, WAEC conference chair and Vectis Automation chair/founder. 

The 2026 AWS Welding Automation Exposition and Conference Highlights Automation’s Expanding Role in American Manufacturing

The 2026 WAEC showed how robotics, AI-assisted vision, and adaptive welding technologies are helping manufacturers address labor shortages, productivity demands, and quality requirements.

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