Welding qualification coverage
Welding qualification coverage
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I would appreciate a help to clarify a basic issue.
I work for a multinational company, with many sites all around the world, manufacturing the same product portfolio. The engineering and manufacture documents are in a global system, which is accessible for anyone inside the company on-line.
Is there any restriction (in ASME code, AWS code or API code) for the usage here of a welding procedure that was qualified in another site in the other side of the globe?
Formally, is any additional test required?
Many thanks.
I work for a multinational company, with many sites all around the world, manufacturing the same product portfolio. The engineering and manufacture documents are in a global system, which is accessible for anyone inside the company on-line.
Is there any restriction (in ASME code, AWS code or API code) for the usage here of a welding procedure that was qualified in another site in the other side of the globe?
Formally, is any additional test required?
Many thanks.





RE: Welding qualification coverage
Our ASME nuclear procedures come out of our Stoughton, Mass. office and are used in China, Europe, etc.
RE: Welding qualification coverage
I couldn't find anything in D1.1 about who needs to do the testing.
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RE: Welding qualification coverage
From an ASME Section IX perspective, as long as the company letterhead is on the WPS and the PQR supports the WPS, it can be qualified anywhere and used anywhere by the organization.
RE: Welding qualification coverage
Our D1.1 procedures, D1.3, and D9.1 procedures are all from a central "database" that our company uses globally, which we also make available on a company intranet. We even use WPSs in various formats, as some come from companies we've acquired, we just acknowledge that their use is acceptable in our general procedure. Some of the PQR's that support these procedures are old as dirt, and the companies that qualified them originally no longer exist after a long line of mergers and acquisitions. They're still perfectly valid.
RE: Welding qualification coverage
Joe Tank
RE: Welding qualification coverage
I really appreciate your help.
All you said complies with what I had in mind.
Thanks a lot.