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WeldMap™
is a production weld management software for full company-wide
monitoring and traceability of fabrication information. WeldMap™,
also known as the Standard Welding Co-ordinator™.
WeldMap™
is intended for management of fabrication shops or any type
of field welding projects. Well suited for plant
construction and maintenance projects of any size, including
power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical and
aerospace.
WeldMap™ does not require custom
development by the software development team, and therefore it
offers the best value for those organizations seeking more
economical off-the-shelf software solutions.
WeldMap™
manages electronically what many fabricators manage today on
paper. The basis for WeldMap™ is what fabricators may call
weld data sheet, weld map, weld schedule or
fabrication report.
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Key Features
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- Instant live progress
reporting on welding and testing, helping to identify
bottlenecks
- Automatic assignment of
qualified welding procedures and qualified welders
- Automatic requisitions for NDE
- Automatic reporting of NDE
results
- Automatic updating of welder
approvals for satisfactory welds
- Automatic printing of project
'data books', including WPSs, WPQs and NDE reports
- Automatic defect analysis and
productivity reports
- Multiple project views
- Multiple processes
- User security
- Weld sign-offs
- Weld row locking
- Hold point reports
- Full traceability from weld
IDs to welding procedures, welder qualifications, filler
metal, certified material test reports (filler metal and
base material) and NDE reports
- Automatic quality control
utilities, including hold points and electronic signatures
- Automatic links directly to
Weldspec™, Welderqual™ and NDTspec™
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| Co-ordinates
all production fabrication information. |
| Weldspec™,
Welderqual™, and NDTspec™ have been used for many years to
manage welding procedures, welder qualification records and NDE
reports. WeldMap™ has been developed to manage production
welding information and includes automatic links to Weldspec™,
Welderqual™ and NDTspec™ giving a powerful integrated
management system. The software has been designed so that you
only need to enter information once. The software ensures that
this information is shared between documents. |
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Production Monitoring and
Identification of Bottlenecks
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each weld in a structure or project, WeldMap™ includes
information on design (length, thickness, material, joint type,
etc.), production (WPSs, welder details, visual inspection,
consumable batches), and quality control (NDE reports). |
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entering data into the system as the structure is designed,
welded, and tested, you can monitor production live, and
identify any bottlenecks before they become critical. You can
also determine progress instantly to help with progressive
payment schedules. |
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Helps meet ISO 9001 and EN 729
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above international quality assurance standards advise that full
traceability should be maintained between production information
and its associated data, i.e. you should be able to trace back
from production welds to their associated information, like
welding procedures, welder qualification records,
non-destructive examination reports, etc. |
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Automatic assignment of welding
procedures and welder qualifications
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| WeldMap™'s
links to Weldspec™ and Welderqual™ allow you to select
qualified welding procedures and qualified welders by the click
of a mouse button. Welders whose qualifications are due to
expire soon are presented first allowing you to maximise the
benefits of qualification maintenance periods. |
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Integration with NDE
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results of NDE, entered into NDTspec's database can be
automatically retrieved from the WeldMap™ data sheet. Any
rejected welds can cause the software to automatically generate
repair weld information. |
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Updating of welder
qualification records
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system includes all of the information necessary to
automatically update welder qualifications. Every time a weld is
completed satisfactorily, the system can update the
qualification record(s) of the welder(s) who made the weld. |
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Printing of 'Project Data
Books'
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| Gathering
information on the completion of a project can be a very time
consuming task. One of the major benefits of using the WeldMap™
system is that all the information relating to a project can be
gathered together and printed on the click of a button. |
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Reports and analyses
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different types of reporting are built into WeldMap™. Defect
analyses (by welder, by location, by procedure, by consumable
type, etc.) and productivity reports (by welder, by location,
over time) can help to identify training requirements or similar
problems. Progress summaries including percentage welding
complete, percentage testing complete, overdue jobs analyses,
can also be produced on the click of a button. |
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Traceability
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links between the software packages which make up the WeldMap™
suite allow instant traceability on the touch of a button. For
example, double-clicking on a WPS number within the WeldMap™
datasheet retrieves that WPS from the Weldspec™ 4 database, so
you can check the welding variables. Similarly, you can access
welder qualifications and full NDE reports by double-clicking on
the appropriate references on the WeldMap™ data sheet. |
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Quality assurance utilities
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software can optionally incorporate many other utilities, which
aid quality assurance. For example, the system could be
programmed to only accept procedures and welders which are fully
approved. Or, you can pre-define hold points for a project, and
the WeldMap™ software will not allow you to progress beyond
these hold points until their pre-requisites have been
fulfilled. Additionally, you can build in many levels of
electronic signature, locking all or parts of data sheets from
modification. |
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Network ready
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| WeldMap™
is developed as a multi-user networked application. The access
(including passwords) and security routines can be as simple or
sophisticated as you like. The software features all the
necessary security utilities to ensure that two people are not
modifying the same information at the same time. |
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Hardware and Software
Requirements
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This
software is designed for a desktop computer meeting the
following minimum specification:
- IBM PC or compatible
- Pentium P100 processor
- 30 MB hard disk
- SVGA display with resolution
800 X 600 (recommended 1024 X 768 )
- 32MB RAM
- CD-ROM drive or Internet
access
- Windows compatible mouse
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
or later
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