For welded enterprises, the quality of a product must be ensured during production, not by inspection. Production has various stages ranging from design to presenting the finished product to the customer. Serious and costly problems may arise in future production stages of a poorly designed product. Or the wrong material selected at the beginning of production or the lack of necessary conditions during welding may cause cracks in the welding areas in the future. In order to ensure an accurate and efficient production, there is a need to know the possible welding problems in advance and to prepare the appropriate quality procedures in advance. The establishment and implementation of ISO 3834 Welded Manufacturing Competence Management System in an enterprise is very important in this regard.

At that time, when establishing the ISO 3834 Welded Manufacturing Competence Management System in an enterprise, important control points must be identified from the beginning. The following are the points of control in the production facilities using welding:

  • Is the product design done correctly?
  • Are the materials required for production correctly selected?
  • Are the consumables used in production correctly selected?
  • Are welding personnel and welding inspectors adequately trained?
  • Do welding personnel, supervisors and engineers have the necessary documents?
  • Has the enterprise identified the correct welding methods?
  • Are welding operations performed in accordance with job descriptions?
  • Is the product quality checked for the finished products by using destructive or non-destructive testing methods?

Once control points have been identified, business processes will be identified and detailed procedures, work flow charts, and process instructions will be prepared for each business process. In the meantime, the duties, powers and responsibilities of the employees will be determined at each level where the job descriptions of the employees will be issued.

ISO 3834. Welded Manufacturing Qualification Management System is based on the quality standard. Therefore, documentation works have an important place in the installation of this system.

The procedures and application instructions to be prepared must cover the details of the scope and importance of safety-critical products, the stages of production, the causes and extent of metallurgical problems that may arise, and the defect, distortion or weld defects that may affect the performance of the final product.

ISO 3834 standardincludes a number of standards. These are ISO 3834-1 Criteria for selecting the appropriate level of quality requirements, ISO 3834-2 Comprehensive quality requirements, ISO 3834-3 Standard quality requirements, ISO 3834-4 Basic quality requirements and ISO 3834-5 The documentation required to confirm the conformity of these standards to quality requirements .

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