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Entitled Quality Requirements for Welding the standard provides details on how to
control the various welding and welding-related operations to achieve the
desired quality consistently. A key feature of the standard is the requirement to
ensure that people with welding responsibilities are competent to discharge
those responsibilities. This is achieved by the incorporation of another
standard: ISO 14731 Welding Co-ordination Tasks and responsibilities.
The first decision to make is which level of welding quality requirements are
appropriate to your company
ISO 3438 contains three levels of requirements and the selection will depend on
the degree of complexity of your welding operations. Bear in mind that even
simple operations require appropriate control and this is catered for in the
category described in Part 4 of the standard.
Part 2 and 3 define requirements suitable for more complex welding operations.
(The best option and recommendation is compliance to ISO 3834 Part 2
Comprehensive quality requirements)
Initially the QWS needs to be implemented and in place and applied for a
number of months or projects to allow all staff involved to apply and
understand the relevant areas and their responsibilities and to fine-tune the
system.
The final step is a formal application to the Accredited Third Party
Certification body who will apply a detailed assessment and audit.
It is best practice to have the system functioning for some time and tweaked
before the formal application is submitted to ensure a minimum of delay and
cost.
Documentation
Batch testing of consumables
welding consumables
Post-weld heat treatment
Inspection and testing before,
during and after welding
Non-conformance procedures
Calibration and validation
procedures for inspection and
testing equipment
Identification
Traceability
Quality records
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