STS Welding Consultation, Inc. serves numerous fabrication, manufacturing,
construction, major oil companies, sub-sea equipment manufacturers
and engineering organizations.

  
STS also provides small to medium size manufactures and fabrication facilities
with total welding program consultations and gap analyses to assure
they are compliant with industry standards and codes.

Many of these facilities can benefit from acquiring
AWS CERTIFIED WELDING FABRICATOR status,
which STS can provide complete consulting services
to include Quality Manual, WPS’s, work instruction
and internal audit to assure this important certification is achieved.

We are unique in the welding, NDT and quality assurance
surveillance industry in the fact that we can develop, recommend,
review, train and assist with the implementation of complete
Quality Assurance and Quality Control Programs for the welding industry
in compliance with industry and standard requirements.

Technical consultation services include:

  • Welding Consulting for Sub Sea Deepwater pipelines and components complying with
    NACE MR0175-ISO 15156-2, ASME IX, B31.8, API 6A, BS7910, EN 729,
    719, DNV-OS-F101 and DNV-RP F108

  • GTAW-Hot wire, Inconel 625 overlay, buttering weld procedure development
    and process control evaluations/audits

  • Working with Organizations-Supply Chain for Evaluation and Qualification
    of Vendors becoming "Approved Vendor Status"

  • FEED-Front end engineering design review for Critical Welding and NDT specifications,
    procedures and applicable alternative acceptance criteria

  • Aerospace-NADCAP Audit Criteria- Welding and NDT compliance,
    AWS D17.1, AMS-STD-1595, AMS-STD-2219-SMAW,SAW,GTAW,GMAW,FCAW,EB

  • AISC Certified Fabricator and Erector Quality Program development
    with FC & SP Endorsements

  • Assist organizations in expanding and enablement of their supply chain
    and providing auditing services to qualify fabrication facilities, NDT service providers,
    destructive and non-destructive testing laboratories

  • ASME quality program development for acquiring usage Stamps

  • Quality program development for National Board Certificate of Authorization
    for “R” Stamp

  • AWS-Certified Welding Fabricator quality program development to AWS B5.17
    and QC 17.

  • Providing hands on training and special visual welding inspection workshops
    with weld replicas using gauges and examinations for welders, managers,
    supervisors, engineers that must have an understanding of visual welding inspection.

  • AWS-Accredited Welder Testing Facilities program development
    to AWS QC4, AWS B5.4

  • Internal audits to API Q1, NQA-1, ISO-9000,
    NADCAP and IAS requirements, Clark County, LA

We also provide "value added" technical consulting,
QA Surveillance and inspection services to include:

  • AWS-SCWI & CWI, ICC/ICBO-Special Structural and Welding inspectors
    long term or short term assignments

  • AWS-CWE instructors

  • Internal auditing and training by ASQ-Certified Quality Auditors,
    RAB, IS0 9000 Lead Auditors

  • Welding process and equipment recommendations and optimization

  • Welder, Procedure Qualification and Welding Specifications

  • NDT services, VT, MT, PT, UT-Shear Wave, thickness, RFI,
    CSWIP AUT Phased Array -
    (TOFD) Time Flight Data Interpreters and AUT Auditors for Pipelines

  • Development of NDE procedures by ASNT Level III

  • 3rd party inspections

  • Expert witness/testimony

  • Welder and Technical Training seminars, in-house and custom

  • Welding and Quality training programs to facilities and engineering organizations

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