Managing-Welding,the Magic Tool to Success.SOLUTIONS with Effective, Practical Advice
(Sponsored Links) What is often lacking is an open attitude that recognizes the scientific base of modern welding technology, and the need to implement sound principles to optimize processes and control them in real time. Despite this serious deficiency, Managing-Welding principles are now well established and can contribute to improve the performance of welding operations by analyzing in depth their achievements and by striving to reduce weld metal volume deposited, to decrease weld time per weldment, to cut down rejects, rework and scrap, to minimize work effort, to eliminate useless motions and delay time. Without proper Managing-Welding, even if a certain production of acceptable quality is achieved in reasonable time, nobody in the organization has the slightest clue as to the real costs involved or on the measure of improvement available to realize the productive potential. In practice, to achieve consistent results, Managing-Welding needs to set up a system implementing a planned approach to identify the goals capable of satisfying the needs of the company in terms of quality, cost, production and safety. Managing-Welding must identify essential elements as resources, equipment, continuing education and training, and provide active role and support to ensure that the integrity of the system is maintained, by documenting, monitoring, auditing, and reporting on all the aspects of welding operations. The support and direct participation of Central Management, including the commitment to initiate, implement, support and maintain a Managing-Welding system, is fundamental to the development of an encouraging environment where all involved parties including accessory functions like maintenance and purchasing, work together as a team for the success of the common goal. A rationally organized Managing-Welding system should integrate harmoniously the resources of design engineering, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing operations and quality assurance and how these functions interface with the welding control plan, in view of achieving the needed quality standard at the lowest cost and in the shortest time. The importance of regular feedback cannot be overemphasized, for reporting on possible production problems and helping in defining adequate corrective actions and implementing them in the least possible time. Total Welding Management is a formal system approach, developed by Jack R. Barckhoff, P.E., and adopted as an essential productivity tool by the American Welding Society. General Managers of companies running welding operations would be wise to investigate how to implement in their organization Managing-Welding by seeking the required help and by learning from AWS how to put in practice the complete system. The economic gains to be secured by such a move should not be overlooked as they are likely to contribute a substantial improvement to the bottom line, according to reported past experience with different industries. See also our previous page on Welding Management An Article on Five Goals for Improving Productivity was published (2) in Issue 80 of Practical Welding Letter for April 2010. See the following publication: AWS TWM Any questions or comments or feedback? Write them down and send them to us by e-mail. Click on the Contact Us button in the NavBar at top left of every page.
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