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SAIW Member profile: Hydra-Arc
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SAIW bulletin boar
November 2015 AFRICAN FUSION
In support of the upskilling of welders,
shop floor personnel and fabrica-
tion supervisors, SAIW has introduced
modular short courses, most notably a
welding symbols course and an intro-
ductory welding quality control course.
The Basics of WeldingQuality Control
is a course that enables peoplewhohave
no industry experience to familiarise
themselveswith the importance and the
basic principles of welding quality. The
course content –which includes an intro-
duction to common welding processes;
material science; inspection techniques;
welding and fabrication codes; quality
control documentation and basicmath-
ematics and science – is derived fromthe
foundation week of the SAIW Welding
Inspector Level 1 course. It is, therefore,
ideal for those who do not meet entry
requirements for longer courses.
“This two-week course, whichmeets
the syllabus requirements for Module 0
of the IIW suite of courses, can be used
for access to IIW Welding Inspection,
Welding Coordination and Welding
Supervision courses – and these are
becoming increasingly important for
SAIW’s entry-level courses for fabrication personnel
companies that wish to comply with
ISO3834or tobe certified toEN15085 for
railway vehicles,” says Shelton Zichawo,
SAIW training manager.
About Welding Symbols is a one-day
course that reviews the use of welding
symbols in the fabrication environment.
Welding symbols convey towelders/fab-
ricators the position and size of welds,
the amount of weld metal to be depos-
ited and the types of joint. Welders who
work with fabrication drawingsmust be
able to understand and interpret these
symbols so that the joints they produce
meet requirements.
The course covers the European
system for welding symbols (ISO 2553)
as well as the US system (AWS A2.4).
In addition to upskilling in-house-
trained welders, the course is ideal for
welding supervisors, quality controllers
and welding inspectors. It is also valu-
able for engineering design, detailing
and draughting personnel entering the
fabrication field.