An interesting 3-day conference and exhibition was held recently by American welding soceity (AWS) on May 23-25, 2011

This three-day event, in conjunction was featuring industry leaders in manufacturing presenting real-world innovations they used to make their automation projects successful. This was a real benefit for the companies in researching automation as a new application, and those using automation successfully and working to stay current with new technologies, or working to overcome challenges in automation.

Please go thru the link below to get access to key note speech and presentations (PDF) of the proceedings from various speakers in this domain.

http://matc.edu/robot/