Welding, Corrosion and Inspection
Welding Technology and Procedure
ASME IX Welding, Brazing and Fusing Qualifications
Writing and qualifying welding procedures to ASME IX, and qualifying the welders who run them.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
A weld is only as sound as the procedure behind it and the person holding the torch, and ASME IX is the code that says how both are proved. Most of the trouble it causes is not technical. It is that a procedure gets copied from another job, an essential variable moves without anybody noticing, and the qualification that was supposed to cover the work does not. This week works through the structure of the code and then through the paperwork that carries it: the procedure specification, the qualification record behind it, and the performance qualification of each welder. The emphasis falls on the variables, because the variables are where qualifications quietly lapse.
Who should attend
Welding engineers and supervisors, QA and QC inspectors, fabrication and workshop managers, and mechanical engineers who approve or audit welding documentation.
What you will be able to do
- Navigate ASME IX and find the clause that governs a given question.
- Write a welding procedure specification that is complete and defensible.
- Read a procedure qualification record and judge what it actually supports.
- Separate essential, supplementary essential and non essential variables, and know which force requalification.
- Qualify a welder, and track the continuity that keeps that qualification alive.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, live online, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
How the code is built
- Sections, articles, and how ASME IX sits beside the construction codes
- P numbers, F numbers and A numbers, and what each groups
- Where the code stops and the job specification starts
- Reading a clause without reading into it the answer you wanted
Procedure qualification
- The procedure specification and the qualification record behind it
- Test coupons, positions and thickness ranges
- Mechanical testing, and what a failed bend actually tells you
- Qualifying a range rather than a single joint
Day 2
The variables
- Essential variables, and the changes that void a qualification
- Supplementary essential variables and impact tested work
- Non essential variables, and revising a procedure without requalifying
- Common drift: filler batch, preheat, process and position
Day 3
Welder performance
- Performance qualification against procedure qualification
- Positions, diameters, and the ranges a single test actually buys
- Continuity, the six month rule, and how records lapse unnoticed
- Revoking and requalifying when work is rejected
Day 4
Brazing and fusing
- Brazing procedure and performance qualification
- Plastic fusing, and where it appears on a process plant
- What transfers from welding practice and what does not
Day 5
Running it as a system
- A document set an auditor can follow without being guided
- Change control on procedures
- Audit findings that recur, and the record keeping that prevents them
What you leave with
- A drafted procedure specification for a real joint, checked against the code clause by clause.
- A review of an existing qualification record, with the gaps listed.
- A welder continuity register you can run from the week you get back.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Nicosia, Cyprus | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Accra, Ghana | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Gaborone, Botswana | Classroom | R15,000 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended. Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.