Please send a list of Welding Procedures

Please send a list of Welding Procedures

  • Posted by pete
  • On March 9, 2023
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  • weld procedures
We recently received a request from a client for a list of Welding Procedures (WPS) to suit pipe welding. While that may sound like an obvious and simple request, the reality is that a WPS it’s just not as simple as a list of instructions on how to weld pipes together. It’s just not that […]
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 Contract sunk but AWS rises to the surface

Contract sunk but AWS rises to the surface

  • Posted by Neville
  • On October 28, 2022
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The cancelled French submarine program didn’t just dampen relationships between Australia and France, it also left some Australian companies with a sunken feeling. Companies like Australian Welding Solutions or AWS. AWS secured the contract to train the welders for the now defunct submarine program. A contract that would have seen the company’s reputation rise to […]
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 Unattended boiler operator training hot stuff

Unattended boiler operator training hot stuff

  • Posted by Neville
  • On August 17, 2020
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Australian Welding Solutions is proud to announce the commencement of a new training course for unattended boiler operators. What is an ‘Unattended’ Boiler? For the uninitiated, working out what unattended boiler operator training may involve is likely to be a little difficult. Showing someone how to boil a kettle may spring to mind or how […]
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 Featured Project: Flinders Link

Featured Project: Flinders Link

  • Posted by Jade
  • On November 28, 2019
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AWS is delivering training and inspection work for the major local ‘Flinders Link’ construction project until its completion in 2020.   According to DPTI, The Australian and South Australian Governments are jointly funding the $141 million Flinders Link Project to extend the existing Tonsley rail line to the Flinders Medical Centre, creating new connections to […]
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 Welding Safety- the often unheard-of risks to your ears

Welding Safety- the often unheard-of risks to your ears

  • Posted by Jade
  • On March 21, 2019
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  • PPE, Weld fume, welding, welding safety, WHS
In our last article we shared some shocking truths about the dangers of welding fume, and questioned whether the approach to weld fume extraction was perhaps sometimes a bit lax. Fume can have devastating long-term effects when inhaled, but continuous exposure to weld fume can also cause hearing loss.   Anyone on a work site […]
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 Welding fume: how bad is it?

Welding fume: how bad is it?

  • Posted by Jade
  • On February 7, 2019
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  • welding fumes, welding safety
Welding is a high-risk activity in many ways; but the inhalation of welding fumes and gases can have serious effects. Welding fume is made when a metal is heated above its boiling point. The metal cools and then condenses into fume; fine particles that can be breathed in. Welding fumes contain substances including metallic oxides, […]
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Award-Winning STEM Interns at AWS

  • Posted by Jade
  • On June 20, 2017
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AWS supports SA’s Department of State Development ‘Defence Honours Scholarship’ programs- currently hosting two award-winning Engineering students as interns. Neville and Rahim recently had the good fortune to attend the DSD award night celebrating these high-achievers and the ongoing support for skills in defence. We have been able to take on a number of interns in recent […]
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 Panama Convention

Panama Convention

  • Posted by Jade
  • On April 25, 2016
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Our Managing Director Neville Cornish just had a working holiday of sorts, attending the American Welding Society Convention in Panama! This event takes place every two years in a different location each time. It allows Agents and Staff from the AmWS to get together and talk business (nothing to do with off-shore tax havens, we promise). As […]
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 American Welding Society Certification

American Welding Society Certification

  • Posted by Jade
  • On February 2, 2016
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American Welding Society CERTIFICATION NOW AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA THROUGH AUSTRALIA WELDING SOLUTIONS Adelaide-based company, Australian Welding Solutions (AWS) has signed an agreement to be official agents for American Welding Society. This partnership means U.S. Certifications are available throughout Australia and New Zealand for the first time. AWS Australia’s leading trainers AWS has been providing advanced […]
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 Safety & Compliance: It’s best to know where you stand

Safety & Compliance: It’s best to know where you stand

  • Posted by Jade
  • On January 1, 2016
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The ACCC (Australian Competition & Consumer Commission) has recently handed down a hefty $515,000 penalty to an Australian company that misled small businesses over their safety and compliance needs, reminding us we should all be aware of our responsibilities and liabilities. Safety and Compliance are not things you want to be too cavalier about, especially in high-risk industries such […]
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Accreditation from the Canadian Welding Bureau

  • Posted by Jade
  • On August 12, 2015
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As Founder and Managing Director of AWS, Neville Cornish has added another qualification to his belt, ensuring we are uniquely positioned in the Australian welding industry. Neville recently became approved as a Canadian Welding Bureau Approved Professional Engineer. He is the only person in Australia to hold this qualification, so is the man to speak to if […]
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 Under Pressure: Education is needed for pressure plant awareness

Under Pressure: Education is needed for pressure plant awareness

  • Posted by Jade
  • On July 20, 2015
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Most inspection bodies around Australia will be familiar with comments from clients about their requirements for items of pressure plant. ‘Oh I didn’t know that’, ‘It has to be registered?’ ‘I don’t know if we do that’, ‘No one told me that when I bought it’. It’s not unusual to get an urgent inspection request […]
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Weld Procedure: A ‘Cost’ or an ‘Investment’?

  • Posted by Neville
  • On February 3, 2015
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When qualifying welders for projects, are we wearing a cost or making an investment? Where do welders fit in a WPS? The requirement for Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS) is quite clear under various Australian and International standards, codes, regulations, and in accordance with the client standards. The Welder Qualification is the next step. To apply the […]
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Birrana Engineering

  • Posted by Jade
  • On November 23, 2014
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Australian Welding Solutions delivers another successful Welding 101 & Science of Welding short course program, where participants had the opportunity to see the effects of diffusible hydrogen degassing from a welded coupon. Hydrogen Assisted Cold Cracking is one of the most catastrophic phenomenon’s to occur in welding.
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Santos

  • Posted by Jade
  • On November 23, 2014
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Graduates and engineers attended the one day short course Welding 101, participants learned about basic theoretical aspects of various welding processes, fundamentals, defects and metallurgy. Then it was out to the workshop to experience hands on welding of MMAW, GMAW including Modified Short Arc on pipe.
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Do you own your Welding Procedure?

  • Posted by Jade
  • On July 4, 2014
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When you engage a Welding Consultant to prepare standards based Welding Procedures, ask if they have the intellectual property right to give you the material they provide. Some Welding Consultants copy documents that they do not have the right to copy, as another company owns the copyright. Use of such documents may expose you and […]
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Modified Short Arc welding

  • Posted by Jade
  • On July 2, 2014
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Australian Welding Solutions has been busy during the past few months in the development of Advanced Welding Techniques for Line-Pipe Welding of X56, X65, Stainless and Duplex materials. The technology of MSA (Modified Short Arc) welding has been around for several years such as (Lincoln STT) (Miller RMD), yet many pipe fabricators and welders still […]
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Scaffolding Safety Alert

  • Posted by Jade
  • On July 2, 2014
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Given recent Scaffolding collapses in Sydney and Melbourne this raises the importance for scaffolding to be inspected by qualified welding inspectors. AWS is an inspection body specifically accredited for the inspection of scaffolding. View Scaffolding Safety Alert AWS® Scope of inspection for scaffolding consists of: Inspection of welds by qualified welding inspector Tube inspections—external & […]
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