The arc strikes. The weld pool forms. But in today’s fabrication shops, something bigger is happening just beyond the sparks. Across North America, welding is quietly shifting from a labor-constrained craft to a scalable, repeatable business process. And cobot welding is right at the center of that shift. The Old Model Was Built on Heroics For decades, welding success depended on a few highly skilled people doing extraordinary work every day. When those welders were available