WELDING INSPECTION & QUALITY MANAGEMENT - TRAINING COURSE

Forge Your Future: The Power of Welding & Quality Management

Are you ready to ignite a career where craftsmanship meets leadership? Studying welding inspection and quality management is your pathway to mastering the skills that build, connect and improve the world around us. Here’s why it’s a remarkable choice:

• Shape the Backbone of Industries: From infrastructure and aerospace to automotive and renewable energy, welding & welding inspection are the cornerstone of countless sectors. Paired with quality management, you’ll ensure these industries meet the highest standards of precision, safety and reliability.

• Master Both Craft and Strategy: Welding inspection is the craft, while quality management sharpens your analytical and problem-solving skills. This powerful combination makes you a dual-threat professional who can both create and optimise.

• Secure High-Demand Opportunities: Skilled Welding Inspectors and Quality Managers are always in demand. Your unique blend of technical and managerial knowledge will set you apart in a competitive job market.

• Drive Excellence in Every Joint: Quality management empowers you to implement systems that improve processes and guarantee top-notch outcomes. Together with welding inspection, you’ll be at the forefront of building durable, high-quality solutions.

• Make a Tangible Impact: The structures you inspect and the quality systems you manage leave a legacy—one that supports communities, advances industries and safeguards lives.

Investing in Welding and Quality Management isn’t just about learning skills—it’s about becoming an architect of excellence. Join this dynamic field and blaze a trail where precision meets innovation and every spark leads to success!

WHY CHOOSE OUR DISTANCE LEARNING CPD TRAINING?

Our training offers an excellent choice for the following reasons:

1. Distance Learning: The course is offered as a distance learning, self-study CPD training course, making it accessible to candidates regardless of their location.

2. Flexible Learning: Candidates can start and progress through the training at anytime, anywhere & at their own pace. No need to wait for course dates for classroom-based or online training courses and no need to pay travelling expenses & to spend time away paying for hotels & other living expenses.

3. No Prior Knowledge Required: The course is suitable for candidates at all levels, including those new to welding & welding inspection, as no specific qualification entry requirements are needed.

4. Comprehensive Curriculum: The course covers a comprehensive range of topics, including principles of the widely used fusion welding processes (arc welding, laser beam welding, and electron beam welding), welding codes and standards, welding positions, types of welded joints, how to develop & write a qualified Welding Procedure Specification, welding symbols, welding imperfections, visual welding inspection, principles of the various NDT inspection methods & the principles of quality management, including welding coordination to BS EN ISO 14731, corrective actions & continuous improvement, the requirements of a Factory Production Control (FPC) system for the UKCA Marking certification of steel & aluminium structures to BS EN 1090 & the requirements of a welding quality management system to ISO 3834. For a complete list of topics covered on the course, see further down the page under the heading: 'COURSE CONTENT.'

5. Industry-Relevant: The course is designed by professionally qualified academic and industry experts, ensuring that the content is both academically rigorous and practically relevant. The prominent academic & professional profile of our Course Tutor is shown below under the heading 'Course Tutor: Philip Bralsford CEng MIMMM MWeldI MMet MBA.'

6. Career Advancement: The training is designed to enhance your career prospects by increasing your technical knowledge, skills and understanding. 

7. Supportive Environment: Benefit from the support and guidance from experienced Tutors.

8. Full-Colour Training Handbook: Participants receive a comprehensive, full-colour training handbook that serves as both a course guide and a valuable reference tool after completion.

9. Accredited Certifications: Enhance your credentials with certifications recognised by top organisations. 

10. Proven Success: Our training has already empowered professionals from high-profile organisations including Arcelor Mittal, UKRI - Science & Technologies Facilities Council, TAQA Bratani, The Institute of Cast Metal Engineers and The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC.)

11. Excellent Feedback: The course has received excellent feedback from candidates who have completed it, highlighting its effectiveness in developing knowledge, skills and understanding:

• 'Thank you for quick turnaround. I really enjoyed the course. Hope to use your services again in the future.'

• 'Fantastic, much better than TWI notes & learned much more during the course.'

• 'Really good course-good pace & very good notes. Thank you.'

• 'Good course, well-paced, good content & structure.'

• 'Informative & well-presented course. Thank you.'

WHO SHOULD COMPLETE THE COURSE?

The course is ideal for:

🔹Inspectors, quality professionals, manufacturing personnel, engineers, metallurgists, technicians, welders & anyone else in the welding, fabrication, metals & engineering industries looking to increase their knowledge, skills & understanding in welding technology, welding processes, welding inspection, quality management & the requirements for the UKCA & CE Marking of Steel & Aluminium structures to BS EN 1090.

🔹Trainees who are looking to increase their knowledge & skills towards undertaking a role as a welding inspector / senior welding inspector / quality manager / quality engineer / welding supervisor / manufacturing engineer.

COURSE OVERVIEW

This Welding Inspection & Quality Management training course is unrivalled in the market & is aimed at providing candidates with the Welding Inspection & Quality Management knowledge & skills requirements of industry across a wide range of industry sectors including:

🔺 STRUCTURES, INCLUDING CONCRETE REINFORCING STEELS 'REBAR'

🔺 PRESSURE VESSELS 

🔺 PIPELINES

🔺 RAILWAY VEHICLES TO BS EN 15085

🔺 AEROSPACE

🔺 AUTOMOTIVE

🔺 OIL & GAS

🔺CHEMICAL

🔺POWER GENERATION INCLUDING NUCLEAR 

🔺RAILS

🔺GENERAL ENGINEERING

🔺DEFENCE

DISTANCE LEARNING SELF STUDY TRAINING COURSE

The training is completed by our distance learning, self study training course which provides a cost-effective & flexible route for candidates to start & progress through the training at anytime, anywhere & at their own pace.

Total estimated self study time required to complete the course is 25 hours. 

The start date  for the training would follow receipt of payment of the course fees. 

All course materials would be posted & e-mailed to the candidate, including a comprehensive, full-colour training handbook which is posted & which serves as an excellent reference document following completion of the training. There are also links to instructional videos to explain some of the concepts presented in the course.

To complete the course, the candidate works through the Training Handbook. During their progression through the course, the candidate also has the option to request a tutorial session with the course tutor of up to 2 hours duration. The aim of the session, which would be arranged online or by phone, would be to review any issues the candidate may have on their understanding of the course material.

CERTIFICATION

Candidates are assessed on the course by CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENTS and those achieving the required standard will be AWARDED a CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT in 'WELDING INSPECTION & QUALITY MANAGEMENT' & CPD 25 HOURS. There is no expiry date on the certificate.

SELF STUDY BOOKING FORM

Course Fees: £950 per person, inclusive of a comprehensive, full colour Training Handbook & all Assessment & Certification fees.

Please click on the LINK to download and complete the SELF STUDY booking form if you would like to make a booking, or Contact Us if you require any further information. 

COURSE CONTENT

🔺  Definition of Fusion Welding & Solid State Welding

🔺  Definition of a Metal & Alloy

🔺  Useful Properties of Metals & Alloys

🔺  Review of Parent Metal Product Standards & Grades: 

o BS EN ISO / ASTM / ASME / UNS Parent Metal Product Standards Designation

o Specifying the Levels of Certification to BS EN 10204 When Purchasing Parent Metal Products

o Hot Rolled Products of Structural Steels

o     Concrete Reinforcing Carbon Steel

o Pipeline Steels

o Pressure Vessel Steels

o Stainless Steels

o     Aluminium Alloys

🔺 Examples of Typical Surface Imperfections / Defects on Parent Metal Products

🔺 Welding Codes & Standards 

🔺 Welding Terms & Definitions

🔺 Principles of the widely used Fusion Welding processes: 

• Arc welding processes

• Electron Beam welding process

• Laser Beam welding process

🔺 Types of Welded Joints & Welds

🔺 Preheat & Interpass Temperature Measurement & Control

🔺 Steel preheat temperature determination to BS EN 1011-2

🔺 Principles of Heat Treatment after Welding (Post Weld Heat Treatment)

🔺 Welding Positions

🔺 Welding Symbols

🔺 How to Develop & Write a Welding Procedure Specification

🔺 Welder & Welding Operator Qualifications

🔺 Welding Stresses, Distortion & Residual Stress

🔺 The types of welding imperfections that occur in fusion welds & how to avoid them

🔺 The requirements for welding inspection before, during & after welding

🔺 How to carry out a visual inspection of welds to the general requirements in BS EN ISO 17637 & the Aerospace requirements in BS ISO 19828

🔺 How to use welding gauges when carrying out a visual welding inspection

🔺The principles, applications, advantages & disadvantages of the various supplementary Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) inspection techniques for the surface & internal inspection of Welds:

• Ultrasonic Testing (UT)

• Radiographic Testing (RT)

• Magnetic Particle Testing (MT) 

• Dye Penetrant Testing (PT) 

• Eddy Current Testing (ET) 

🔺 Weld Repairs

🔺 The specific weld quality requirements for a range of welded products:

• • Steel & aluminium structures in the UK & EU for UKCA Marking to BS EN 1090-2 (steel ) & BS EN 1090-3 (Aluminium.)

  • Welded carbon steel bars for concrete reinforcement to ISO 17660 Parts 1 & 2.

  • Steel & aluminium for railway vehicles and components to BS EN 15085.

  • Pressure vessel steel to BS EN 13445

  • Metallic piping to BS EN 13480

  • Electron Beam & Laser Beam welded products to BS EN ISO 13919

🔺 How to develop & write a qualified Welding Procedure Specification

🔺 Welding Quality Management System requirements according to ISO 3834

🔺 Welding Coordination requirements according to BS EN ISO 14731

🔺 BS EN 1090-1: Requirements for the UKCA / CE Marking of Fabrications for Steel & Aluminium Structures 

🔺 Non-conformance reporting, corrective actions & continuous improvement

Course Tutor: Philip Bralsford CEng MIMMM MWeldI MMet MBA

• Philip possesses extensive experience as a Course Tutor & has successfully trained many hundreds of candidates on training courses in Welding Engineering, Responsible Welding Coordination, Welding Inspection, Metallurgy, Materials Engineering & Quality Management.

• Philip provides training for a number of high-profile clients, including: Arcelor Mittal, The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), UKRI-Science & Technology Facilities Council, The Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (ICME), TAQA Bratani, Building Research Establishment (BRE), Moog Aircraft Group, J & D Pierce Contracts Ltd, Bourne Group Ltd, Mueller Europe, TEi Ltd, Ultra Maritime, William Cook Cast Products, WQiC, Voestalpine Bohler Welding & RWE Generation UK PLC.

• Philip is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), professionally qualified in Metallurgy, Materials Engineering (MIMMM) & Welding (MWeldI) and possesses more than 30 years manufacturing industry experience, having worked for leading engineering firms such as British Steel, Sheffield Forgemasters and Corus.

• Philip also has a strong and detailed background in quality management systems and quality & manufacturing auditing, particularly within the metallurgical, engineering, welding and materials sectors. He possesses an ISO 9001 Lead Auditor qualification & a thorough understanding of quality management industry standards.

• Philip has received excellent feedback from the clients & candidates who have undertake his Training. For some of their comments see below:

'Our Engineers have found the course and its subject material very informative and helpful as two engineers relatively new to welding. They have also found the material very well presented and easy to follow.'

'It's been done in a way that's understandable for people who already have some knowledge and for those who don't, It's learnable and understandable.'

'I think there is very little or almost nothing to improve, as the course is very well designed, built and the Tutor is very experienced.'

'Thank you Philip for your time. I've enjoyed the course a lot and after meeting with you, I've learnt even more about the role of an RWC. Thank you again for your feedback on where we need to be and I will continue to make a great effort to learn more.'

‘I felt the course material was invaluable. I came away with a complete understanding simply because it was written by somebody who clearly understood their subject area. I look forward to studying again with Philip.’

Purchase the Training Handbook

You can also purchase separately the full-colour, Training Handbook for this course.

Please Contact Us if you would like to order a copy.

Purchase the Digital Course Materials

We also offer for purchase the digital course materials that would enable training providers provide their own training in 'Welding Inspection & Quality Management.'

When purchasing the digital course materials, you would receive all course materials in digital form, including a comprehensive Microsoft 365 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, as well as all Assessments for the course. 

The PowerPoint presentation also facilitates a TRAINING HANDBOOK for the course to be printed.

All digital files are also editable to enable you to apply your own branding to the course materials. 

Please Contact Us for a quotation if you are interested in purchasing the digital course materials.