IIW History 1990-2015

Welded Products (C-V) was also instrumental in the publication of three associated standards on methods of magnetic memory (ISO 24497 1-3) that had originated in that Commission, and were published on 5 November 2007. Despite a continuing discourse with ISO on procedural items, including those within IIW itself, there was steady progress almost on all fronts regarding the development of standards and technical reports. At the July 2007 meeting of SC-STAND in Dubrovnik it was announced that the committee would now be known as a Working Group (WG- STAND) under the direction of the IIW Board of Directors. At the same time, Shackleton was reappointed as the Chair of the Working Group for a further three years. During this period, Shackleton was to announce the appointment of a new Standards Officer, Mr Michel Rousseau (France), as a replacement for Ziegenfuss. 49 Rousseau’s tenure was relatively short and he was then replaced by Mr Andrew Davis (USA) from 1 January 2012. In addition to his duties for the AWS, Davis was quick to show his attributes as a highly competent

person who had an extensive background in international standards and was soon to establish himself in that position, one that AWS kindly supported from a financial point of view. Ziegenfuss, though, still remained on WG-STAND and was always ready to offer his wise counsel whenever it was needed. Ziegenfuss had a unique record, never likely to be broken, having been continuously involved in SC- STAND, then WG-STAND, since he first began his involvement in IIW standards as the US delegate in 1984, and had participated in every meeting since, a total of 62 consecutive meetings. In recognition of this achievement and his outstanding service to IIW in standardisation, Ziegenfuss received the Thomas Medal Award from Mr David Landon, President of AWS, at the opening ceremony of the 68th IIWAnnual Assembly in Helsinki in 2015 50 . Shackleton, as a long-standing Chair, was very supportive of WG-STAND’s role in IIW. ‘IIW is only involved in standardisation where it has the technical strength to support international or regional activities.’ 51 He added later, in 2011, that ‘…in scope it has widened its activities greatly including technical reports on resistance welding, friction stir welding and classification of defects in metallic fusion welding. Currently, 35 standardisation projects, including systematic reviews, are

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Mathias Lundin

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