1. A laser weld monitoring system capable of assessing a weld quality of welding using a laser, said system comprising: at least one sensor capable of capturing a weld characteristic of welding using said laser, said weld characteristic having a plurality of attributes; and data acquisition and processing equipment adapted for storing and analyzing said weld characteristic, wherein a user performs a plurality of welds to capture at least one weld characteristic for each weld, determines the weld quality of each weld, runs at least one of a library of algorithms associated with the attributes on said at least one weld characteristic for each weld to generate a single value output for the associated attribute, and selects an attribute indicative of the weld quality by correlating the single value outputs of said at least one algorithm with the weld qualities of the welds.