For operations directors
What autonomy changes about rate, rework and the constraint station — and what it does not.
Resources
The artefacts weuse to scopea real pilot.
In brief
Not gated ebooks. These are the working documents behind a Weldeon deployment — the scorecard template, the ROI model, the integration checklist and the genealogy schema.
Next step
Pack
What is in the evaluation pack
Sent as a set, because they only make sense together.
- 01
Pilot scorecard template
The four measured lines, their definitions, the baseline design and the review protocol. The single most useful document we produce.
- 02
ROI model
A working model tying first-pass yield, rework hours, defect escapes and takt to money, using your own cost lines.
- 03
Integration checklist
Everything needed before integration week: controller access, network, sensors, MES credentials, roles and approvals.
- 04
Code conformance briefing
How AWS D1.1, ASME BPVC, ISO 3834 and EN 1090 requirements are modelled as machine-enforceable constraints.
- 05
Weld genealogy schema
Every field, its provenance, retention and export format — for your quality and IT teams to review.
- 06
Security note
Architecture, data flows, tenant isolation, access model and support-session handling. Shared under NDA.
How to evaluate
Questions worth asking any welding-AI vendor
Ask where the qualified envelope is enforced. If the answer is 'in the model' or 'in configuration', the boundary can be crossed. It should be clamped in the controller adapter, below the intelligence.
Ask what happens at low confidence. A vendor without a stop policy has not thought about the case that matters. Guessing should not be a mode.
Ask who accepts an indication. If the platform accepts its own NDT calls, your qualified inspector has been quietly removed from a code process. And ask what the baseline was — any yield claim without a stated baseline period and product mix is decoration.
Calculators
Working the numbers yourself
The ROI model is deliberately conservative, and every assumption is visible.
- Rework recovery
- Booked repair, grinding and straightening hours × loaded rate × the modelled reduction on the pilot scope.
- Yield gain
- First-pass-yield points × welds per period × the cost of a second pass, including inspection.
- Escape avoidance
- Escape rate × downstream cost, separated into re-inspection, field repair and warranty exposure.
- Takt value
- Recovered constraint-station minutes × contribution per unit — usually the largest single line.
- Labour
- Scarce welder and fitter hours redeployed, valued at overtime or contract rate rather than base.
- Cost
- Subscription, usage, integration and internal effort, over the same period.
Scorecard
The four lines, illustrated
Every pilot is judged on the same four numbers, measured with your instruments and your definitions.
Briefings
Short reads by role
Four two-page briefings, written for the person who has to sign something.
For welding engineers
Envelopes, deviation handling and how procedure authority stays with you.
For quality engineers
Machine-read NDT, adjudication, genealogy and what an auditor will see.
For IT and OT
Network topology, segmentation, air-gapped operation and support-session controls.
Reading
From the journal
The pieces most often sent alongside the evaluation pack.
Agreeing a pilot scorecard you can both live with
Five lines, two arguments, settled before integration week.
Why the envelope belongs in the adapter
Enforcement below the intelligence, and why every other location eventually fails.
Fit-up is the weld decision nobody logs
The largest upstream cause of lack of fusion, and what measuring it changes.
Pack
What you get and when
6
documents in the evaluation pack
48h
typical turnaround on a pack request
0
marketing sequences triggered by requesting it
NDA
required only for the security note and technical detail
“Ask where the envelope is enforced. The answer tells you everything about the vendor.”
Request
Ask for the evaluation pack
Tell us the scope you are considering and we will send the pack tuned to it, with the ROI model pre-filled for your segment.
Begin
Bring autonomy to thearc, the fit-up andthe inspection bay.
Book a pilot on one cell or line. We agree the scorecard before we start — first-pass yield, rework hours, defect escapes, takt — and we report against it in the open.