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IWS strives to meet global standards

TIRUCHI: Seeking to derive maximum benefit from the adoption of ‘The Common Welders' qualification scheme by the Asian Welding Federation (AWF), the Indian Welding Society (IWS) recently trained 33 faculties from Industrial Training Institutes in Tiruchi, Perambalur and Thanjavur districts in frontier areas of welding.

The training was offered under the aegis of a seminar on ‘Advanced Welding Processes' by the Southern Zone of Indian Welding Society in four areas: Flux Shielded Welding Processes, Gas Shielded Welding Processes, Solid State Welding Processes, and Non-Destructive Testing of Welds. The event marked the commemoration of the 10th year of IWS.

By introducing such advanced welding technologies in the shop floor, quality, reliability and productivity could be improved, S.Dharmalingam, General Manager, Welding Research Institute and Labs, BHEL, said. Welding instructors, he observed, play a pivotal role in shaping the young minds as skilled welders.

The eight to nine per cent growth in India determined by acceleration of industrial growth can be sustained through establishment of adequate power plants, for which there was a need for more number of skilled and qualified welders.

The common welders qualification scheme adopted by the AWF at its recent meet in New Delhi will open up opportunities for Indian welders to seek careers abroad. The qualification conforming to ISO standards was acceptable to all the member countries, including Japan, Korea, China, India, Singapore and Malaysia, he said.

B. Pattabhiraman, past president of IWS and Managing Director of G.B. Industries Private Limited, urged the ITI faculties to take the benefit of the training to their students. Indian artisans, he said, were rated as the best in the world.

Nevertheless, Japan has to depend on overseas manpower for its industrial requirement of 30 million welders in the next ten years. Hence, the level of training has to be raised in the Industrial Training Institutes, Mr.Pattabhiraman emphasised.

The programme was conducted with the support of the Deputy Director and Principal of Government ITI, Tiruverumbur, Bosco. The IWS was eager to conduct more such programmes in future, N. Rajasekaran, Hon. Secretary of the Society, said.

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