Resources and tools
Quality control forms, welding calculators and technical templates. Welding is a specialised process which, controlled properly, produces a cost competitive quality fabrication. These resources exist to help you avoid expensive or unplanned remedial work.
Calculators
Three calculators, built to be used in the planning phase rather than after the fact. All three run entirely in your browser: nothing you type is transmitted, stored or logged. All three on one page.
Weld consumable calculator
Consumable quantity for butt and fillet welds, from joint geometry and length. For estimating and for ordering.
Carbon equivalent calculator
Carbon equivalent from a material composition, as an indicator of hardenability and preheat requirement.
Travel speed and heat input
Heat input from current, voltage and travel speed, and travel speed from run length and time.
AWI provides this information as a free resource to the welding industry. Validate the accuracy of any result before relying on it. AWI accepts no responsibility for consequent losses from the use of these resources.
Quality control forms
A set of quality assurance and quality control forms and registers, produced by AWI for use in a fabrication quality system. They cover the records that AS/NZS ISO 3834 expects a fabricator to be able to produce.
The set includes, among others:
- Welder qualification record
- Approved welder qualification register
- Welding procedure, and qualified welding procedures register
- Pipe welding procedure record
- Daily welding record for welders
- Weld history record
- Weld traceability number record
- Fabrication inspection report
- Fabrication instructions
- Inspection and test plan
- Non-destructive testing request
- Non-conformance report
- Pressure testing of pipework record
- Material report sheet
- Measuring and test equipment calibration sheet
- Drawing register and issue record
- Design change notice
- Internal document register
- Internal audit and review schedule
- Approved suppliers list
- Quality assurance status tags: welding approved, fitting approved, inspected, rework, rejected, hold
These forms are being reissued with a document number and a revision, so you can reference one in your own quality manual and an auditor can tell which version you were working to. Ask AWI for the current version in the meantime, and ask at the same time what you may do with it: whether you may adapt it to your own system, and what happens to that if your membership lapses. Ask for the forms.
What is free and what is for members
Worth stating plainly, because most bodies get this the wrong way round.
| Resource | Access | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Standards library | Free to everybody, permanently | Explaining what a standard requires is the job, not a benefit |
| The AWI register | Free to everybody, permanently | A certificate nobody can check is worth nothing |
| Calculators | Free to everybody | They are cheap to run and they bring the right people to the site |
| Technical library | Metered, then members | Three articles free, then join. Metered rather than walled, so it stays indexed |
| Quality control forms | Members | Directly commercially useful to a fabricator, and cheap relative to membership |
| WeldED archive | Current issue free, archive for members | The archive is a member asset |
You can read three articles from the technical library in any thirty day period without an account. Members read everything. The calculators are free to anybody, with no sign in, and nothing you type into one is sent anywhere.
Other places worth knowing
AWI does not reproduce standards, and does not pretend to be a substitute for the bodies that publish them.
For the standards themselves, go to Standards Australia at standards.org.au. For qualifications, units and registered providers, go to the national register at training.gov.au. For welding health and safety obligations, go to the work health and safety regulator in your state or territory, listed by Safe Work Australia at safeworkaustralia.gov.au.