Welding management for your shop and jobsite [Q17]

W. Edwards Deming said, Inspection does not improve the quality, nor guarantee quality. Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product. Citing Harold F. Dodge, he stated, Quality can not be inspected into a product or service; it must be built into it. Fabricators and Erectors must have a Quality Management System (QMS) or Quality Control (QC) system. AISC standards, AWS standards, and related documents frequently use the word inspection. Are your fabrication and/or erection operations addressing welding through inspection processes? Inspection is often considered to be only after completion of the welding, ignoring the need for inspection before and during welding. Inspection often tends to focus on finding mistakes, then getting them fixed. This session will focus on changing the approach from inspection to welding management, using shop supervision and/or welding coordination approaches. We will use guidance from other welding management systems and related standards to help develop an appropriate and effective means to build quality into your welding operations.

Source: NASCC
Year: 2023

Speaker(s): Robert Shaw, Jr, PE