ESAB provides specialty solutions to unique customer requirements, including customized panel cutting machines for shipbuilding block assembly lines. By incorporating an automated cutting step after assembly of the panel, accuracy is vastly improved, and a number of process steps which were traditionally done by hand can be automated. This includes panel marking with text and layout lines, primer removal for stiffener weld joints, weld joint line marking, interior cutouts with bevel cutting, and automated bevel cutting of the panel periphery.