AWS WQAG Welding Quality Assurance Guideline for Fabricators
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AWS WQAG Document Information:
Title
Welding Quality Assurance Guideline for Fabricators
American Welding Society
Publication Date:
Jan 1, 1997
Scope:
This Guideline is limited to describing a recommended welding quality assurance for small to medium sized weldment Fabricators. The scope does not include guidance on weldment design, design control or design review. Although some elements of a quality system are applied to weldment fabrication in this Guideline, it does not constitute the description of a full, company wide quality system.
Notes:
• In the event that this Guideline is used by the customer to qualify a Fabricator as a supplier, this Guideline is written in an auditable format.
• As used here the term Fabricator refers to the organization supplying weldments to the Customer.
• Each element of this Guideline should be addressed in the Fabricator's Quality Assurance Manual. If the Fabricator is not sufficiently large to benefit from instituting a particular element of this program, a not applicable statement should address the item in the quality system manual.
• This Guideline may be used for any material or type weldment not covered by an existing industry specific certification program, such as AISC for buildings, or ASME for pressure vessels.
• This Guideline references the term Governing Specification. If a nationally recognized standard or customer specification is designated in contract documents, then the rules regarding welding quality in those standards apply. The Fabricator may elect to create a system that complies with one of those standards or may create an appropriate one of their own.
Keywords:
- Quality assurance
- quality system
- NDE
- welding procedure
- qualification document control
- inspection
- nonconformance
- material control
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