Weld Process Improvement

Third-party review and auditing of your welding processes has built-in benefits. Element experts help your team:

  • Evaluate quality issues and restore of code compliance
  • Measure your actual processes against in-place procedures
  • Ensure good record-keeping systems
  • Identify new efficiencies and develop plans to implement them
  • Standardize processes among employees to improve quality and scheduling

The first step: diagnosis

Element welding engineering experts are trained to diagnose and troubleshoot your welding processes and provide you with relevant, high-impact, cost-saving information. Our service includes:

  • Audits performed to your specifications or code compliance needs (e.g. AWS D1.1, ASME Sec. IX)
  • Precision evaluations with calibrated equipment
  • CWI and visual inspection of welded products at all stages of your fabrication process
  • Reviews and audits of your welding procedure documents; checked for compliance and troubleshooting
  • Verifiable measured results
  • Accurate and organized records of our findings and recommendations
  • Follow-up and long-term improvement assistance

Your weld process improvement audit may include:

PRIOR TO START-UP

  • Auditing the welding procedures
  • Verifying welder certifications
  • Verifying materials meet job specs with positive material identification, or PMI
  • Nondestructive testing of raw material (ultrasonic method) to ensure it meets requirements
VERIFICATIONS DURING FABRICATION
  • Check of weld preps/fit-ups
  • Ensuring welders are complying with welding procedures during welding
  • Visual inspections during welding to detect problems at the earliest stage, to prevent failures and delays
  • Tracking of welders to welds and components
  • Compiling data packages of all required/requested client documentation
POST-FABRICATION
  • Dimensional inspection of all the items to ensure they meet the drawings
  • Visual inspection of all welds
  • Nondestructive testing (X-ray, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, and dye penetrant) of welds or seal surfaces
  • Monitoring of weld stress relief processes
  • Inspection of prep for painting
  • Verification of proper paint materials
  • Inspection of paint in-process and final

A Sampling of Element Welding Approvals & Certifications

  • American Welding Society, AWS D1.1 to AWS D1.6, AWS D9.1, AWS D14.1, AWS D14.6, AWS D15.1, and more.
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME B31.1, B31.3,
  • ASME Section IX, Pressure & Power Piping Code
  • Military Standard AMS-STD-1595 Military & Aircraft, AMS-STD-2219
  • American Petroleum Institute, API 1104 Petroleum Piping
  • TÜV/PED 97/23/EC,  EN 287, EN895, EN288, EN910, EN10002-1, and more.