Presentation on WPS (welding procedure

specification) and PQR (Procedure

Qualification Record)

Conducted By:
Shri Brijesh Kumar, AE(NQA)
WPS (welding procedure
specification)

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 WPS (welding procedure specification)

 Written qualified welding procedure

 To provide direction for making

production welds

 Code – requirements.

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 Contents of WPS

 All the basic details or parameters,

ranges and values

 Required for sound welding.

 These parameters are:

 Details of joints/ base metals / filler

metal/position / pre heat / post heat /
PWHT/ gas / electric characteristics /
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 WPS contains all the parameters
pertaining to the welding.

 Parameters are known as variables.

 Categories of variables

 Essential variables

 Non Essential variables

 Supplementary Essential variables

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 Essential Variables:

 Change in Essential variable affect

mechanical properties.

 Change in Essential variable from the

WPS will change mechanical properties
of weldments.

 Change in essential variable requires

requalify WPS.
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 Non Essential variable:

 Non essential Variables are those

which can be changed without
requalifying the WPS.

 We do not need to requalify our WPS

whenever we change Non Essential
variables.
 

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 Supplementary Essential variables:

 If toughness is a criterion then we use

supplementary Essential variables

 It acts as a Essential variables.

 Change in Supplementary Essential

variables, Requires requalify WPS.

 For each welding technique, there is

separate list
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Sl No Welding Process Table

1 Oxyfuel Gas Welding (OFW) QW-252 & QW-252.1

2 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) QW-253 & QW-253.1

3 Submerged Arc Welding (SAW) QW-254 & QW-254.1

4 Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) QW-255 & QW-255.1

5 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) QW-256 & QW-256.1

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 Job Requirement

Prepare PWPS- Proposed (Preliminary) WPS

Prepare a Test Coupon/ Test Piece

Welding of Test Coupon

Send the test coupon to Lab for Mechanical test of Welding

If Report is satisfactory then our WPS is qualified means

PWPS is qualified WPS.

Conduct Welder Qualification Test (WQT) and post

satisfactory completion of WQT, start the Job.
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 PQR
(Procedure Qualification Record)

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 Procedure Qualification Record

 Real time values of

 Essential variables,
 Non Essential variables
 Supplementary Essential variables
 Lab Test Report

 PQR is a record of variables

recorded during welding of test
coupon. It also contains the test result
of the tested specimens.
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 Contents of PQR

1. Essential variables

2. Supplementary Essential variables

3. Non Essential variables

4. Lab test Report

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Discussion

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