Patent ID: 8592723

Claim:
A memory for storing data for access by an application program executed by a computerized welding system, comprising: a weld bank data structure correlating a weld system configuration and a weld file, the weld file comprising: a welding process program data structure; and a weld sequence data structure defining at least one of a time parameter and a welding process command parameter, wherein the weld system configuration includes a weld file transition identifier for transitioning between a selected weld file defining a first weld to be performed and a subsequent weld file defining a second weld to be performed, and the application program is programmed to retrieve the weld bank data structure, configure the computerized welding system using the weld configuration, to perform a weld using data stored in the welding process program and the weld sequence data structures, and to transition from the currently operational weld file and a subsequent weld file when the weld file transition identifier is activated.