Weldreality.com

[Robbie260]

I was just looking at her website and this comment caught my eye........(Im a bit bored)

From Weldreality.com............."Every year in calm seas or what’s considered normal ocean weather, hundreds of ships will break apart, usually around the weld seams. One prime reason for the catastrophic ship structural failures is first and foremost, lack of ship yard front office weld process ownership. Poor yard supervision. Over size weld joints allowed that create oversize weld heat affected zones that weaken weld joints. Flux cored trapped slag and pores. Poor weld procedures that do not deal with the weld variables generated in the yard, procedures that enable poor and inconsistent weld fusion. And most important, ship yard welder training departments that are stuck in a 1980s time warp and are not aware of what weld process controls and best weld practices are. The Ship Building Industry has for decades had great potential to save many millions of dollars per-vessel on reduced weld rework and millions more on when they attain the weld process knowledge for improved weld productivity. All it takes is for the responsible mangers, engineers and supervisors to figure out their missing link and learn about the requirements for weld process ownership."

I tried to find the info.......in 2018 only 66 ships were lost and 4 or 5 broke in half and most of them were grounded (I assume that they were grounded before the broke in half) so under the circumstances she describes...there was ONE
https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2019/26281/ships-losses-2018-how-many-ships-were-lost/

What a Bull ****ter

Would agree with you there, all welds on a ships hull are xrayed to ensure there are no defects. Ships will generally only break their backs as a result of grounding, collision or freak waves. The freak waves do happen one nearly 100 meters high hit one of the cunard queens head on it took the deck plates down by 3 mm.

Edit: sorry 95 foot wave

 

[Feet 'n Inches]

Longest advert I've ever seen.

 

[anto44]

"One prime reason for the catastrophic ship structural failures is first and foremost, lack of ship yard front office weld process ownership. "
This "weld process ownership" seems to come up quite a bit on this site but I've yet to figure out what exactly this is, other than a meaningless corporate buzz phrase,

 

[Brad93]

Main reason for ship failure is human/pilot error.

second reason is ship being operated outside it’s lifespan or operating parameters.

Third reason is probably a flaw in the ships structure.

welding or material failure very low down the list

 

[TechnicAl]

"One prime reason for the catastrophic ship structural failures is first and foremost, lack of ship yard front office weld process ownership. "
This "weld process ownership" seems to come up quite a bit on this site but I've yet to figure out what exactly this is, other than a meaningless corporate buzz phrase,

me neither

 

[rtcosic]

"One prime reason for the catastrophic ship structural failures is first and foremost, lack of ship yard front office weld process ownership. "
This "weld process ownership" seems to come up quite a bit on this site but I've yet to figure out what exactly this is, other than a meaningless corporate buzz phrase,

I vote for meaningless corporate buzz phrase invented by those elusive creatures responsible mangers @TechnicAl quoted.

My dear old Dad used to say - It's like a cow pat. Don't prod it and it won't smell. I thought feeding, quoting or even acknowledging the existence of Trolls wasn't the done thing?

Edit: or is this the Forum's modern equivalent of visiting Bedlam to mock the inmates?

 

[matt1978]

There is no “corporation” behind it. It’s Ed Craig, then Em Craig and now E Craig (based on his LinkedIn profile). One man operation by the looks of it.

 

[TechnicAl]

Had a towbar fitted on the new car and they remove the original hidden bumper bar.........just look at the spatter .....yet this Ed Craig thinks that slag is the enemy of car builders
PS the brown areas are reflections