A Technology Roadmap for Welding and Joining in Canada — Foreword

If you don't know where you are going — any road will get you there.

Unfortunately, this has been a well traveled road for many former participants in business and industry who are no longer around to comment on the reality of the statement.

Planning, be it strategic or business planning has become an indispensable tool that helps companies to make decisions in their allocation of resources.

On an industry-wide basis, planning is no less essential and over the last decade and a half, has increasingly taken on the form of Technology Roadmaps. The Technology Roadmap (TRM) for the Canadian Welding and Joining Industry attempts to achieve a consensus on the Goals, Vision and Plan of Action for the Welding and Joining Industry.

On a Pan-Canadian basis this TRM considers and guides future technology and product needs along with human resource requirements; future marketing opportunities; decision making on technology application and research and promotes collaboration, shared knowledge and new partnerships.

To all those who participated in the various forums of industry consultation, thank you for your support and willingness to come together to cast a Roadmap for the Welding and Joining Industry.

To the TRM Steering Committee, thank you for your enthusiasm, encouragement and your absolute commitment to the TRM process and its ensuing product that will well-serve and position the Welding and Joining Industry in Canada through the next decade.

Fred Gibbons
Steering Committee, Chairman

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