Join us on April 17th for a live virtual meeting with Bill Campbell. He is the owner of the only AWS Accredited Testing Facility (ATF) in the state of Colorado. He will be sharing his experience with the ATF program over the last seven years and will be answering practical questions about the benefits of the program.
Meeting Topic: The benefits of being an AWS Accredited Testing Facility and participating in the AWS Certified Welder Program
Presented By: Bill Campbell M.A. Ed., AWS CWI, AWS CRAW-T (CMU Tech/ Weld Tech, Grand Junction CO.)
Discussion Topics:
The Certified Welder Program Overview
– AWS National Registry of Certified Welders
– Verification Portal
– Maintenance Process
The role of ATFs
The Accreditation Process
– Application
– Quality Assurance Manual Review
– Audit Checklist
– Onsite Audit (Initial or 3-year)
– Nonconformances and Suggestions
– Maintaining Accreditation
Takeaways after 7 years of participation
– Benefits to the welding community
– How being an ATF can help a business
What’s next for ATFs?
– Test Supervisors are now Qualifiers
– WPQ1 endorsement required for Qualifiers
– Moving from the QC4 and QC7 to the QC47, or not?
– New performance testing checklist
Audience Questions
RSVP: Please RSVP by emailing Seth Davis at scolorado@awssections.org
Location: Zoom Link: https://aws-org.zoom.us/j/82487634967