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Bridging the Welding Workforce Gap
Observations from China’s Welding Trade Show By Graham Fry for technoweld.com.au After recently returning from a major welding trade show in China, I’ve had time to reflect on some pressing global trends in the metal fabrication and welding sectors. As someone who's...
Why is welding quality management so important?
Do you know what is required of you? Whenever a company starts a new project, whether as a subcontractor or a direct vendor (manufacturer), it is essential that they understand what they are required to have for compliance prior to taking on the project. It is...
Increase your Welding Productivity through optimisation of your operations
Skills shortage is real, but is it as big an issue as companies think? Organisations often struggle to get additional staff, yet don’t consider ‘do I actually need them’. Most fabrication and welding shops have not refined their welding operations in years and...
AS/NZS5131 Compliance in Structural Welding Projects: Ensuring Quality and Safety
Structural welding requires meticulous planning, execution, and adherence to industry standards to ensure the safety and quality of the final outcome. In Australia, one such significant standard that businesses must comply with is AS/NZS5131. This article will delve...
What is fatigue failure in metals, and what factors reduce the fatigue life of welded components?
Fatigue life is the number of loading (stress or strain) cycles a component can withstand before failure occurs. For some metals, i.e. steels, there is a theoretical number of cycles for a given stress range. If kept below this number of cycles, there is a confidence...
Ultrasonic Peening: maximising fatigue performance
Fatigue is the weakening of a material caused by repeatedly applied loads. Depending on the cyclic nature of the stress, material can fail quickly or over prolonged periods. Fatigue failures have cost companies billions due to loss productivity, personal injury,...
GTAW Walking the Cup Vs. Freehand Welding
The Advantages and Disadvantages In the modern day many welders prefer to walk the cup over freehand as it saves them burning their hands, provides better control and a more consistent finish to the weld when the technique has been mastered, but with most things...
How a Welding Supervisor can assist your project
Why do I need a Welding Supervisor? Welding Supervisors play an integral part in the hierarchy of welding projects to ensure the quality, compliance, and success of the build. Typically, they are the first port of call in the technical management of the project and...
Welder Qualification Tests – What’s the easiest way?
WQT – what is it and why do we need it? A Welder Qualification Test (WQT) is a qualification certificate that verifies that a welder has successfully completed the verification of competence test using a specific welding process, in a particular welding position and...