Path Robotics and ALM Positioners are combining forces to deliver AI-powered welding automation
Path Robotics and ALM Positioners have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to transform industrial positioning systems into fully autonomous, AI-powered welding solutions.
The partners stated in a press release that the collaboration addresses urgent manufacturing challenges, including a shortage of skilled welders, increasing part variability, and demand for faster lead times. The solution is built for complex, high mix welding environments, enabling manufacturers to automate without the need for traditional programming.
The companies said this partnership expands their long-standing relationship, ensuring that AI-powered robotics and intelligent positioning technology work seamlessly together to improve accuracy and accelerate throughput in industrial automation.
“ALM is the perfect hardware partner for Path as we expand across North America,” said Andy Lonsberry, CEO and Co-Founder of Path Robotics. “ALM’s teams and products are best in class and known across the industries we serve.”
Industries including heavy equipment, trailer manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and agriculture face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality, customized products at scale.
These sectors face common hurdles: shortages of skilled welders, high part variability, and demand for faster lead times. Traditional automation solutions often fall short in these complex, variable environments.
The ALM-Path partnership offers a solution that addresses these pain points with intelligent automation designed for high-mix, multi-pass welding with extreme part variability. The combined system, based on Path Robotics AW3 and ALM Positioners, intelligently adapts to each part and weld path without reprogramming, making automation viable where it previously wasn’t.
“Path’s technology is changing the way manufacturers view automation,” said Pat Pollock, President and CEO of ALM Positioners, Inc. “Their AI-driven solutions allow manufacturers to take advantage of the quality, throughput, and consistency of robotic welding, without all the programming and application challenges associated with traditional robotic automation.”
