Quality Assurance for Welding Technology and Metal Inspection
Comprehensive Quality Assurance for Welding
TÜV Rheinland can help your company achieve the highest standards in Welding technology. Our experts support you with comprehensive engineering services that cover a full range of welding activities. We certify and monitor personnel, metal construction products, production, and assembly procedures. From welding quality management to metallography, we ensure the quality of your products and your teams.
Benefits at a Glance
With TÜV Rheinland’s welding inspections and certifications, you can:
- Ensure the quality of your products
- Improve your employees’ skills
- Comply with applicable directives and standards, such as DIN EN 3834
- Actively contribute to accident prevention
- Take advantage of our many years of experience in welding technology
Our Services for Welding Technology
Our experts offer a full range of welding services, giving you all the support you need from a single source. Our services include the following:
- Supplier qualifications and qualification certificates for welding:
- Steel buildings, steel bridges, and composite steel bridge structures
- Rebar
- Rail vehicles and vehicle components
- Military equipment
- Certification of quality assurance systems specific to welding
- Welding expert reports and qualification of welding procedures
- Welding consultation on, for example, design and engineering questions
- Specialized engineering services
- Monitoring of welding and corrosion protection work in production areas and at construction sites, such as steel structures, steel bridges, or composite steel bridge structures
- Metal inspection, monitoring, and certification
- Inspection and monitoring of metal construction products and rebar
- Certification of metal construction products and rebar according to the nationally approved standards
- CE Marking issued by TÜV Rheinland as a notified body
- Damage inspection and metallography of metallic components
- Inspection and assessment of high-pressure gas lines and equipment according to domestic and international regulations for high-pressure gas pipelines (Gas HL-VO)
- Issuing of certificates
- Technology and consulting
- Qualification and testing of manual welders and machine operators in compliance with applicable regulations
- Additional certification of a welder inspection in accordance with Directive 97/23/EC (pressure equipment)
Training
Our experts at TÜV Rheinland offer tailor made training programs. They include:
- Training in welding schools
- Welder training courses – including in-house training – in the gas, manual arc, MIG, MAG, and TIG welding methods