Stephen Lin
Founder of Advanced Metal Research, Machine intelligence for American Welding
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Stephen Lin is listed as a founder of Advanced Metal Research. America does not just need more welders. It needs welding knowledge that can scale. The American Welding Society projects 320,500 new welding professionals will be needed by 2029, with about 80,000 jobs to be filled annually from 2025 to 2029. More than 157,000 current welding professionals are approaching retirement. Welders are only a small share of the skilled-trades workforce, but welding accounts for an outsized share of projected capability demand. The market calls it a labor shortage. AMR sees a learning bottleneck. We are building American-made robotic welding cells that combine computer vision to provide real-time seam tracking and post-weld inspection to turn welding from a scarce manual process into a closed-loop manufacturing system that learns from every weld as it happens.
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Welding from my phone (in United seat 22A)
Welding from my phone (in United seat 22A)
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Optics/photonics are underappreciated in engineering. Important link between the physical world and software. Also great fun: somehow intangible yet hands-on. Take a dichroic mirror. Splits mid-visible light to a camera, lets a blue-green and higher-NIR weld laser pass through
Optics/photonics are underappreciated in engineering. Important link between the physical world and software. Also great fun: somehow intangible yet hands-on. Take a dichroic mirror. Splits mid-visible light to a camera, lets a blue-green and higher-NIR weld laser pass through
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Turned up early this morning and found 2 new TVs. I see building dashboards that give executives actionable insights into critical busin...
Turned up early this morning and found 2 new TVs. I see building dashboards that give executives actionable insights into critical business functions in my near future.
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When you’re a welder but your heart is 100% aerospace republic
When you’re a welder but your heart is 100% aerospace republic
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POV: you’re an IPG Lightweld and me and @masch_services are running some weld tests
POV: you’re an IPG Lightweld and me and @masch_services are running some weld tests
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Our robotic welding game has landed. Every minute you spent building intuition in video games will make its way into the real world with...
Our robotic welding game has landed. Every minute you spent building intuition in video games will make its way into the real world with advanced manufacturing.
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When the only lasers you’ve got are class 3B but you haven’t got any blue safety goggles, so you quarantine the laser in its own room and...
When the only lasers you’ve got are class 3B but you haven’t got any blue safety goggles, so you quarantine the laser in its own room and trigger it from the other side of the shop.
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Where are my optics and photonics people at? @jwt0625
Where are my optics and photonics people at? @jwt0625