International Welding Inspector

Welding Coordinator

With the entry into force of D.M. 14/01/2008 (NTC) and the future standard UNI EN ISO 1090 clearly defines the importance and role of the welding coordinator, indispensable for workshops for the production of metal carpentry for clarity the norm UNI EN ISO 14731 is fundamental, defining the roles and tasks of that professional figure! The WELDING INSPECTOR performs a verification and control activity that must only be performed by qualified personnel and using qualified procedures, the qualification rules of the procedures vary according to the scope and depending on the material to be welded. To start ordering among the more than 300 European standards for welding, also referred to by UNI REN ISO 3834 and non-destructive controls (UNI EN ISO 17635), comes to the aid of the table published and constantly updated by the Swedish Welding Commission at www.svets.se.
The Welding Inspectors represent the professional welding work dedicated to inspection activities, so they are not strictly considered in a production context, but work with Welding Coordinators and non-destructive testing operators. The Welding Inspector figure provides three qualification levels, depending on the degree holdings held:

• International Welding Inspector – Comprehensive (IWI-C)
• International Welding Inspector – Standard (IWI-S)
• International Welding Inspector – Basic (IWI-B)

The expected levels of education are summarized in the following table, depending on the type of professional figure.

IWI-C

Degree or university degree in Engineering; Alternatively, in Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry or Architecture, coupled with proven industrial welding experience or high school diploma with technical (or equivalent) duration of 5 years.

IWI-S

Attestation of professional vocational school education, obtained following a course of at least three years, with a minimum age of 20; Alternatively, admission exam and qualification certificate in the metalworking sector, with a minimum age of 22 (of which 3 of industrial experience).

IWI-B

Documented welding experience or Welding Practioner Certificate.

Quality Policy

The Management of ARTE FERRO Srl, with the decision to have the Quality Management System, to keep it active and to improve it, wants to meet the needs and expectations of its customers by adopting an effective management tool that allows a continuous improvement of the organization , and business performance.

The organization pursues the goal of satisfying the customer in terms of compliance with contractual requirements and normally, price competitiveness, compliance with delivery times, and minimum containment of complaints arising from complaints and non-conformities.

ARTE FERRO's Management considers the individual ability and ability, awareness, involvement, motivation of the staff towards quality, key factors in their ability to achieve business goals.

Use Quality Management as a tool for achieving a quality level that meets your goals and for implementing work methods that, through process control and optimization of results, and continuous performance improvement, achieve better economic results and greater market penetration, and enable them to acquire and retire a qualified clientele.

With this Quality Policy Statement, and with the Manual, ARTE FERRO Management communicates to the Interested Parties and to the staff their own intentions and methods implemented for this purpose.

Through the Quality Management System, ARTE FERRO designs, implements, monitors, processes to achieve, monitor and measure the degree of implementation of the objectives, evaluates actions to correct, prevent, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the system and objectives in quality.

The Direction of ARTE FERRO S.r.l. assigns to Mr Daniele Pratiffi the position of Representative of the Directorate for Quality, with the task of developing, implementing the System, reporting on the degree of performance and performance, and representing the ARTE FERRO Company with respect to its staff and of third parties, as far as Quality is concerned.

UNI EN ISO 9712

Non destructive tests - Qualification and certification of non-destructive testing personnel.

In the field of industrial diagnostics, "superficial" non-destructive analysis methods take great interest in evaluating the structural integrity of particularly critical components and components in order to ensure their operational functionality, continuity of use and the degree of safety required for man and the environment. In the United States at the beginning of the 1970s, the American Society for Non Destructive Testing (ASNT) issued the first legislation on SNT-TC-1A for the qualification of non-destructive inspection personnel.

Subsequently, other countries have also issued national regulations that are substantially similar to American ones. In 1993, the European Standardization Committee (CEN) issued the European Standard EN 473 / ISO 9712, edited in Italy under UNI EN 473 / ISO 9712 "qualification and certification of non-destructive testing personnel. only the UNI EN ISO 9712: 2012 standard was issued.

In particular, both the DM 14/01/2008 (NTC) and the UNI EN ISO 1090 standard require the execution of the above checks to verify the integrity of the structure and / or the result of special processes such as welding, in particular reference to NTCs is mandatory 100% control of all VT-welded joints.

The standard subdivides non-destructive testing executives on three levels and defines the skills that can be summarized as follows:

Level I: Execution of control

A Level I certified person has demonstrated competence to perform non-destructive testing in accordance with written instructions under the supervision of certified staff at Level II or Level III.
With the purpose and skills defined in the certificate, Level 1 staff may be authorized by the employer to carry out the following operations in accordance with the PND instructions:

• set the NDT (Non Destructive Testing) equipment;
• test;
• result and classify test results in accordance with NDT instruction criteria;
• refer the result;

Level II: Interpretation of results and assessment of compliance with specifications, also Level II gives I level instruction statements that can only work with Level II statements.

A certified person Level II has demonstrated competence to perform non-destructive testing in accordance with a NDT procedure. With the purpose and skills defined in the certificate, Level II staff may be authorized by the employer to:

• select the NDT technique for the method used;
• define limitations in the application of the NDT method;
• translate NDT codes, standards, specifications and procedures in NDT instructions appropriate to the actual test conditions;
• set up and verify the CND tool settings;
• perform and monitor the NDT test;
• interpret and evaluate results in accordance with standards, codes, specifications, or procedures applied;
• implement and supervise all Level II or Level I activities;
• provide guidance to Level II or Level I staff; refer the result;

Level III: organization of the system of non-destructive checks, drafting of specifications and personnel training.

The subdivision in the three tiers applies to any method of non-destructive testing.

The UNI EN ISO 9712 standard also defines the procedures for certification in the three levels. Direct Access to Level II requires the sum of the hours scheduled for Level I and Level II

Table – minimum hours of training for Level I and Level II

*Note for RT, training hours do not include radiation safety training

Table– Industrial experience

Non-destructive testing of surface and volumetric properties applicable to welds is defined by UNI EN ISO 17635.

UNI EN 1090-1:2009-A1:2011

CE marking of steel structures

The standard specifies the requirements for the conformity assessment of performance characteristics of steel and aluminum structural components as well as kits placed on the market as building products.

The implementation of the current UNI EN 1090 Standard Project as a harmonized standard for product CE marking related to CPD Directive 89/106 / EC is the future for structural steel structural carpenters, anyone without any exclusion to market Italian or European structural steel products is obliged to provide CE marking according to this standard!

How to publish on the site of the Superior Council of Public Works, through a freely consulted and downloadable address UNI 1090-1 D.M. 14/01/2008.pdf 

For the serial products falling within the scope of European harmonized standard EN 1090-1, the aforementioned CE marking also provides for the qualification of the product in accordance with § 11.1, case A DM 14.01.2008.Therefore, the manufacturer of structural steel carpentry items, if they have CE marking for these products on the basis of EN 1090-1, does not require the certificate of filing of the documentation as a metal-processing transformation center issued pursuant to §§ 11.3.4.10 and 11.3.1.7 of DM 14.01.2008.

The harmonized EC 1-2011 UNI EN 1090-1: 2009 "Execution of steel and aluminum structures Part 1: Requirements for the conformity assessment of structural components" provides precisely the requirements for the CE marking according to Directive 89 / 106 / EEC and European Reg. 305/2011. According to UNI EN 1090-1, companies that manufacture structures or parts of them, whether in steel or aluminum, must introduce a production control (FPC) compliant with UNI EN ISO 3834, to be subject to verification by a notified body issuing the Certificate of Conformity.

With satisfaction and pride, our organization has submitted its (FPC) certification to the certification body (RINA) by obtaining certification for the construction of steel structural components in EXC-3 execution class for household materials 1.1 (≤S275) and 1.2 (S355) UNI CE ISO / TR 15608

This CE mark is a declaration of conformity by which the manufacturer declares that he has supplied the product in accordance with the specifications described in his declaration, this declaration must be accepted throughout the European Union and the authorities concerned may not require any other requirements for product construction. EN 1090-1 indicates the requirements of which the CE declaration of conformity - conforms to the CE mark - must be complied with and what the declaration must state. EN 1090-1 does not contain rules governing structural design and construction calculations. Design and calculation standards are set out in the respective sections of the Eurocode, while construction requirements are in EN 1090-2 EN 1090-3.

For the technical execution of the requirements for CE marking structures, EN 1090-1 refers significantly to EN 1090-2 for the construction of steel structures and EN 1090-3 for the construction of structures in aluminum. Requirements for all types of structures are defined according to a single standard, whether it is a simple roof of a large building or a static load beam of a dynamic rail load bridge.