The 2017 International Workshop on Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing

In recent years, the intelligent manufacturing has become a widely concerned trend of development. The intelligentized welding technology has naturally become one of the highly active research directions of intelligent manufacturing. The intelligentized welding manufacturing (IWM) deals with complex information, networking and intelligent technology during the whole process of welding products manufacturing, including a wide range of welding materials, structures, technics, processes, equipment and systems, products and market. Therefore, it is imperative to research and develop intelligentized manufacturing welding technology. Intelligent welding manufacturing would play an important role in research, development, and application of the emerging additive manufacturing technology.

It is under such a background, the Robotics & Automation Committee of Chinese Welding Society (CWS), co-sponsored by other academic institutions, of the Chinese Welding Association (CWA), Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES), successfully held a series International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (RWIA) every four years since 2002, such as the RWIA’2002, RWIA’2006, RWIA’2010 and RWIA’2014