Transactions on Intelligent Welding ManufacturingThe primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academia and industry with up to date coverage of recent advances in the fields of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation. It gathers selected papers from the 2017 International Workshop on Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing (IWIWM2017), held June 23 26, 2017 in Shanghai, China. The contributions reveal how intelligentized welding manufacturing (IWM) is