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quality control to keep products and services ahead of the competi-
tion.
“Quality control is so important, word is now spreading. We’re not
marketing it proactively, but the same company keeps another system
online, then word spreads to other large companies, and that’s how
it’s been working for us. So the subsea application has been working
very well for us, and that’s a large trend,” said Carpenter. “The accu-
racy of the automated system is needed to increase quality control
and to increase output. Everyone’s trying to squeeze out more with
higher quality, that’s where we come in with our automated system.”
Ironically, Carpenter notes that LJ Welding is having more difficulty
advancing the automation process in Alberta in the welding and fab-
rication industries than internationally. Most of the company’s auto-
mation success is outside of Canada.
He added that the market really demands this kind of cutting-edge
innovation that has put LJ Welding among the top 10 business lead-
ers in growth and innovation this year.
“What it means to not only myself, but to our employees, and our
company as a whole, is that it’s recognition for all the hard work that
we put in over the last eight years,” said Carpenter.
He also sees the recognition as an indication that LJ Welding is do-
ing the right thing in terms of diversification after the economic boom
then bust cycle of 2008-2009, which was a relatively new phenome-
non for entrepreneurs and business owners just entering the markets
in the early part of the past decade.
