Annals: Series on engineering sciences (Academy of Romanian Scientists) (Jun 2019)
INNOVATIVE ONLINE SIMULATOR WELDING TOOLS FOR COST CALCULATION PRODUCTION PROCESS
Abstract
The modern society is extensively depending on a range of welded products like shipbuilding, bridges, constructions of pipes, boiler works, car manufacturing industries and building industry (construction industry). The product safety, and our reliance of these products, depends on quality of materials, welder’s basic knowledge and competence, and their continuous skills upgrading towards new welding processes and materials as well as their continuous updates of certificates and diplomas.Unfortunately, no high quality, easy accessible, process oriented and integrated general purpose welding cost simulator tools are available on the market in Europe to help Companies, Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training (VET) schools, instructors and welders to create production friendly designs that offer a sound and easy way of evaluating and predicting the costs factors objective of the whole production process as such. Most software tools available on the market are used for calculating detailed welding costs, like heat input, preheating temperatures and welding parameters based on a single material selection, a single welding process only and forgetting their interrelations and dependencies. These software tools are rather simple aiming at one process step and one-purpose only. Through a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project IQSIM [1] was developed and disseminated as a new generation of training methodologies that became available to European wide mechanical industry sectors. This project is an extension of the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project MECCA [2]. The training methodologies developed specifically include tasks and examples for the fabrication industries, vocational education and training schools (VET), and SME’s.
