Improving Global Quality of Life
Improving Global Quality of Life
Improving Global Quality of Life
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9 Needs and challenges <strong>of</strong> major industry sectors for future applications<br />
<strong>of</strong> welders. In particular, joining technology designed in a way appropriate for certain ages and, in future,<br />
training and advanced training concepts adapted to this will accompany the utilisation <strong>of</strong> joining technology<br />
to an even greater extent than now (see Chapters 6.3 to 6.5).<br />
Against the background <strong>of</strong> longer working life times, concepts for permanent further qualification must be<br />
developed for all employees at an early stage and allow them to be qualified for a longer period and to be<br />
successfully active in the company.<br />
In this respect, production technology and joining technology must react to different interests from industry<br />
and the skilled trades. The skilled trades necessitate a fundamental understanding <strong>of</strong> application-oriented<br />
fabrication concepts using joining technology. Manual joining with an assured quality is essential for many<br />
fields <strong>of</strong> the skilled trades. In this case, cost-favourable training concepts are constantly being discussed<br />
as a challenge. Here, modern welding trainer concepts (virtual systems) <strong>of</strong>fer solutions in order to also<br />
implement product-related demands from sets <strong>of</strong> rules in joining technology.<br />
Production using joining technology and international interweaving<br />
Devices and facilities as well as filler materials and auxiliary materials for joining are utilised all over the<br />
world but must meet the respective regionally different conditions and statutory requirements.<br />
One peculiarity <strong>of</strong> welding and joining technology is that these global systems for quality assurance are<br />
being carried out and refined with the corresponding qualification and certification systems in explicitly<br />
European and international structures and organisations. <strong>Global</strong> communication standards and Web-based<br />
procedures and, to an increasing extent, Web-based training systems are being utilised in this respect.<br />
In the wake <strong>of</strong> advancing cross-border fabrication, joining technology should be applied with uniform<br />
regulation all over the world if at all possible, without restraining competition (see Chapter 7).<br />
To this end, standardisation encompassing the following fields is very advantageous and worth striving for:<br />
Devices, facilities, filler materials and auxiliary materials for welding and joining.<br />
Requirements on plants (ISO 3834) and their personnel (e.g. ISO 9606, ISO 14731 and ISO 14732)<br />
performing welding and joining work.<br />
Requirements on products which have been welded or have been joined in any other way.<br />
Tests and pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> compliance (e.g. ISO 15607 to ISO 15614).<br />
For many years, ISO (International Organisation for Standardization) and IIW as the ISO-recognised<br />
organisation for the development <strong>of</strong> ISO standards relating to welding technology have been very successfully<br />
drawing up such standards with experts from all the member countries on the expert committees and have<br />
regularly adapted them to the changing requirements and conditions. If international harmonisation is<br />
not possible, such standards are harmonised in a regional or sectorally specific form, e.g. in Europe in EN<br />
standards or in the aerospace or automobile industry.<br />
Consequences<br />
Particularly for welding technology, the above statements result in two consequences:<br />
1. The manufacture <strong>of</strong> high-quality welding machines and installations requires extremely highly qualified<br />
personnel and, with great fabrication depth, is <strong>of</strong>ten carried out in medium-sized enterprises. Attempts<br />
to relocate such fabrication to low-wage countries have failed time and again particularly because <strong>of</strong><br />
quality imperfections. With regard to the manufacture <strong>of</strong> welding filler materials (especially <strong>of</strong> covered<br />
or flux-cored wire electrodes), additional factors are that a constant quality <strong>of</strong> the input materials must<br />
be absolutely safeguarded and that the production takes place on very complex installations in highly<br />
automated processes.<br />
Through Optimum Use and Innovation <strong>of</strong> Welding and Joining Technologies<br />
<strong>Improving</strong> <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Quality</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Life</strong><br />
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