Burned by touch-sensing and seam-tracking?
Learn why these systems struggle in real-world production and what could work better.
The ROI of adaptive welding doesn't make sense.
You've invested a lot of money installing sensors and programming touch-sensing and seam tracking,
so you expect your robot to adapt to the real world.
But in reality your adaptive welding system fails because of:
- Unreliable tracking: Works on some joints, fails on others.
- Endless tuning: Constantly adjusting thresholds and parameters.
- Operator trust issues: Operators disable the adaptive features “just to make it run.”
- Support overhead: Every new job or part requires a mini science project.
These cut into already razor thin margins, despite the high up-front investment.
The system is missing the ability to think
Adaptive solutions can work under the most ideal conditions, but they really struggle when:
- Variations stack and require complex trade-offs between weld techniques and parameters
- The rules-based logic doesn’t fully capture what skilled welders actually do
- For batch sizes of 1, every edge case can mean expensive rework or wasted parts
But what if adaptive welding robots could learn from how welders actually worked?
- See how expert welders react to variations
- Generalise individual decisions into reusable learnings across different situations
- Use available sensors to trigger the right adjustments at the right time
Quick Poll: Tell us what you've tried
We'll share with you what's worked for other shops.
Join our adaptive welding partnership program.
We’re not here to sell you another black-box sensor.
Instead, we're partnering with a select group of high-mix, low-volume fabricators to:
- Map out where existing adaptive approaches break
- Encode welding expertise into smart, adaptive software
- Validate them in real cells, not just lab rigs
We're currently accepting only 5 fabricators into the next batch of the Maihem Partnership Program to guide our solution to solve your hardest welds.
It's free to join, you get to influence the direction of our adaptive solution, and you'll receive a heavy discount for production runs at the end of the program.
