I am having a disagreement with a fellow AWS CWI. I see his arguement, but every other welding engineer I have ever worked with has taken my stance. I'm just trying to understand if my view point is how the Standard intends it to be read, or if the other CWI is correct.
Background: Simple...
I am a Welding Engineer and a self-proclaimed "Code Junkie". I love working my way through the ASME, ISO, and AWS codes/standards (I'm weird, I know). At work the other day, one of the shop floor supervisors asked, why do we need to qualify our welders. I tried giving them the canned "Because...
I am a welding Engineer responsible for creating and maintaining WPS's and WPQ's to ASME Section IX, ISO, and METI welding standards.
Our company primarily performs GTAW processes, however we also use EBW, LBW, and RW in the manufacturing of our products.
We used to perform all of our weld...
