Welder vs Fabricator, what's the difference?

[colnerov]

But surely a sandwich is assembled.

 

[dobbslc]

Yeah but they have to get that sub but exactly in half!

 

[DeBangis]

I've always been an electrician, but did become an engineer for a few years when I worked for ABB, our business cards had "Technical Support Engineer" on them

Did you obtained additional qualification?

 

[DeBangis]

For me a welder is someone who welds, their may be some cutting for fit up ect but 95% Is welding, in any form.

A fabricator is some one who is doing the whole job, cutting drilling grinding punching bending and then maybe the welding!
I have a feller comes and helps me sometimes when I need him making steel frame buildings and he just likes to weld, so I get a day head start and start making all the plates and gussets ect and if I can I will tack them up so
All he has
To do is weld, and move it with the forklift then weld the next one no drilling grinding ect.
That’s why I offer “welding and fabrication”
As for engineer I think that term has lost all meaning now!

Thanks for your input.

 

[Robotstar5]

Did you obtained additional qualification?

No it was just what the company wanted to call us.

 

[DeBangis]

Ok, nice!

 

[DeBangis]

I am sorry, I am making the OP multi topic.

The Engineering Cadre
1. Engineer
2. Technologist
...
Or should I create another thread?

 

[Erie Fred]

I am sorry, I am making the OP multi topic.

The Engineering Cadre
1. Engineer
2. Technologist
...
Or should I create another thread?

3. Grunt

 

[DeBangis]

3. Technician
4. Artisan/craftsman.

 

[8ob]

I am sorry, I am making the OP multi topic.t
...Or should I create another thread?

One with a purpose or something constructive would be good

Bob

 

[addjunkie]

You can’t just call yourself a solicitor because you work in the legal profession.
You can’t call yourself a Doctor because you work in the medical profession.
(Unless you have a PhD)

“I’m an Engineer” because I work in engineering, or more to the point do a technical role in some other profession, is sadly all too common

And I am not denigrating any of those roles at all, they are all highly skilled in their field.
What I object to is the annexing of a title that is not applicable and certainly does not reflect the effort required to get it.

We all know engineers that are useless at making stuff, but we also know lots of Techs who’s go to tool is a hammer or molegrips

I ve a bit of paper from the government that calls me a Marine Engineer, did school after apprenticeship twice. Went into oil business and was told I was a technician, by an Engineer with a nice shiny new degree, who I could run rings round. He had the fancy title I had the big pay cheque. Roll on about 10 years said Engineer turned up as my boss, and I could still run rings round him. Why because he had learnt to play the corporate game, not how to deliver the goods. Roll on a few more years I was his boss, why because I could deliver the goods. He was a bad example, as Ive worked with some superb pure theory engineers who could listen to your point and learn from it, delivering great solutions.

I've always been an electrician, but did become an engineer for a few years when I worked for ABB, our business cards had "Technical Support Engineer" on them

Thats a marketing thing, sales Engineer, support engineer etc.

 

[DeBangis]

Thank you all

 

[zeppelin builder]

100% X ray.

[ a good weld inspector can level the field quickly enough.]

we used to say welders were like film stars "only as good as there last film" as in ndt


in the welders heyday there was strict demarcation one man one job
and to this day the better jobs and highest paid are like this
its sad that wages have never went up in the last 30 years and the trend is for do alls for £14 per hr we all have and can do basic fabrication
but in these jobs you are working x harder for less money
then you fall into good work a couple of welds a shift with emphasis on quality not speed
then of course the specialist stuff
like pipelines where its all go teamwork like russian roullete
but the wage makes it worth pulling the stops out for
ive only worked with a handfull
of exceptional platers that were truly
multi skilled would be welding on one job next job pipefitting or plating
who were ex halliburton when they had a big facility in arbroath

 

[addjunkie]

we used to say welders were like film stars "only as good as there last film" as in ndt


in the welders heyday there was strict demarcation one man one job
and to this day the better jobs and highest paid are like this
its sad that wages have never went up in the last 30 years and the trend is for do alls for £14 per hr we all have and can do basic fabrication
but in these jobs you are working x harder for less money
then you fall into good work a couple of welds a shift with emphasis on quality not speed
then of course the specialist stuff
like pipelines where its all go teamwork like russian roullete
but the wage makes it worth pulling the stops out for
ive only worked with a handfull
of exceptional platers that were truly
multi skilled would be welding on one job next job pipefitting or plating
who were ex halliburton when they had a big facility in arbroath

I always thought the plater formed the curved plate sections for ships etc , welded on the brackets, to knock dogs in to hold it in place. Then the welder did the seams etc. In years gone by anyway when we had ship yards and such!

 

[Prajna]

I was a Royal Engineer and that involved mostly military engineering and civil engineering. I was also a software engineer and briefly an engineering machinist, even an aircraft engineer when I was building microlight aircraft.. Hard to say what is an engineer exactly but calling a sandwitch chef an engineer is stretching it somewhat.

 

[finyuk2005]

I was a Royal Engineer and that involved mostly military engineering and civil engineering. I was also a software engineer and briefly an engineering machinist, even an aircraft engineer when I was building microlight aircraft.. Hard to say what is an engineer exactly but calling a sandwitch chef an engineer is stretching it somewhat.

what makes me chuckle is the term "hair and nail technician"....