Lincoln Electric has rolled out 108 new products over the past nine months, the most aggressive new product launch in the arc welding industry. The accelerated program was designed to bring the company’s products to the market faster and increase the breadth of Lincoln Electric’s welding solutions to its customers. The new product launch schedule was made possible with a company investment of over 400,000hrs of research, development, testing, documentation and marketing. Each product was put through Lincoln’s comprehensive testing and review process, which includes reliability testing in the company’s lab chambers, where products are rigorously tested to withstand dust, rain, humidity, extreme temperatures, dropping, jerking and other real-world conditions. Testing also included hands-on use by welders in the field.