From the Editor's Desk

In October 1986 issue of the Indian Welding Journal we published a paper on Robotics and its terminology which is considered a most significant development towards welding automation. It is known that Welding Robotics can play a big part in substantially increasing welding productivity covering almost all manufacturing industries concerned with welding and metal fabrication. However, automation in welding cannot be fully realised by using a Robot alone which is nothing but a programmable multi-axis welding manipulator.