V&E-Team (asker) Feb 19, 2018:

The brochure does not contain any more context about it. ... sorry.. your google hit is probably exact.

philgoddard Feb 18, 2018:

It's possible that it's normally called something else. The phrase gets only one Google hit, which is a translation from German.

Tony M Feb 17, 2018:

@ Asker I don't have specialist knowledge here, and it's hard to tell without a lot more of the wider context, but from a purely linguistic point of view, I would understand this to mean that the welding (function) is stopped (= turned off) before SOMETHING has reached the end (presumably, of its travel across the workpiece, for example)

I imagine the idea is that, for the welds to be correctly joined up, the first weld as to stop just before the robot reaches the end of its movement, so that the next weld can pick up cleanly at that point, with niether a gap nor an overlap.