AWS WQAG PDF

This Guideline is limited to describing a recommended welding quality assurance for small to medium sized weldment Fabricators. The scope does not include guidance on weldment design, design control or design review. Although some elements of a quality system are applied to weldment fabrication in this Guideline, it does not constitute the description of a full, company wide quality system.

Notes:

• In the event that this Guideline is used by the customer to qualify a Fabricator as a supplier, this Guideline is written in an auditable format.

• As used here the term Fabricator refers to the organization supplying weldments to the Customer.

• Each element of this Guideline should be addressed in the Fabricator's Quality Assurance Manual. If the Fabricator is not sufficiently large to benefit from instituting a particular element of this program, a not applicable statement should address the item in the quality system manual.

• This Guideline may be used for any material or type weldment not covered by an existing industry specific certification program, such as AISC for buildings, or ASME for pressure vessels.

• This Guideline references the term Governing Specification. If a nationally recognized standard or customer specification is designated in contract documents, then the rules regarding welding quality in those standards apply. The Fabricator may elect to create a system that complies with one of those standards or may create an appropriate one of their own.