×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Tracking RT failures

Tracking RT failures

Tracking RT failures

(OP)
All,

Ive recently been tasked to develop a system to track and record RT failures in our pressure vessel welding shop. Currently our quality team believes since we are not recording this therefore it is leading us to believe we are being too lienient on x-ray failure percentages on a per welder basis. My biggest issue is we have some vessels that are harder to fit and weld than others, for example a 6' sch. 40 steel three foot long vessel is easier than a 52" sch. 80 stainless vessel. So does a failure in the steel pipe constitute a "bigger" checkmark than the stainless vessel that is presumably harder to fit and weld? Any ideas to what others are doing in their shops to help track this would be great. Thanks everyone in advance.

-CL

RE: Tracking RT failures

We track failures vs. total number of film shot per weld. This gives us a success rate for each weld and a monthly average for each welder and a composite total. Some track it by inches, but if I have a reject I have to reshoot the whole shot not just the inch(s) rejected. I run it on a spreadsheet and also get a year to date average.

RE: Tracking RT failures

(OP)
That actually sounds like a great idea. Could you PM me an example spreadsheet you use at your workplace?

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources