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Modules

The modules that make up the suites

A suite is a bundle of these. Each module does one job, deep — with its own features and the standards it works to. Some come inside the suite for your trade; others you add across any suite.

Bundled in a suite

These come with the Fabrication, NDT or Certification suite for their trade.

Competence & training

Qualifications · levels · validity

Who is qualified for what, and what is about to lapse, lives in a drawer of certificates instead of one competence record you can actually read.

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Document control

Revisions · distribution · the dossier

A superseded WPS reaches the floor because the controlled document existed but the control didn't — and the sealed handover pack is still gathered by hand at the end.

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Inspection and test plans

ITP · hold and witness points

A hold point is only a control if somebody is stopped by it. On paper it is a row in a spreadsheet that gets ticked afterwards.

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Instrument calibration

Gauges · certificates · due dates

Every gauge has a certificate and a due date, and the work it touches is only valid while it's in date — but the due dates live in a spreadsheet nobody's sure is still maintained.

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Material & heat traceability

Mill certs · heat numbers · where-used

When an auditor asks which certificate covers the plate in this joint, the answer is a hunt through a folder of PDFs and a hope that the heat number on the plate matches one of them.

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Non-destructive testing

Twelve methods, field to report

Readings are written on paper on site and retyped into a report days later, in an office, by someone who was not there.

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Nonconformance and corrective action

NCR · CAPA

A nonconformance raised in welding, found by NDT and dispositioned by engineering usually lives in three systems and agrees with itself in none of them.

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Procedures & welder qualification

WPS · PQR/WPQR · welder quals

Whether a procedure or a welder covers this joint is usually answered from memory, or from a spreadsheet that stopped being maintained two projects ago.

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The handover dossier

MRB · MDR · Final Turnover Pack

The dossier is assembled by hand in the last weeks of a job, from folders and inboxes, by the people who can least afford the time.

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Weld execution & tracking

Assembly · joints · weld log

The weld got made, but the record of who welded it, under which procedure, with which consumable and heat, is scattered across a traveller, a whiteboard and someone's memory — and reassembled at handover.

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Welder and procedure certification

Schemes, examinations, certificates

A certification body's audit is not about the certificates. It is about how thousands of decisions were made, on what evidence, under which scheme revision.

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