TPi September 2019

Products & developments

Digitalising welding to improve production efficiency and traceability

Väisänen, Kemppi’s vice president, sales development. “This enables an easy transition to paperless welding production management and provides a real-time view of production also to enterprise resource planning and KPI systems. “The factory management gets transparent information about what happens at the factory. This opens up new opportunities for improving production efficiency. The end user who ordered the work, for example an oil refinery, is able to trace the events of the welding project to the level of individual welds if necessary.” WeldEye is a universal software solution for managing welding production. It speeds up the management of qualifications and welding procedures and collects welding parameter and performance data, such as heat input. PipeCloud is MES software developed for industrial needs. It combines design data with material data, bundles tasks, and tailors programs for machine tools and work orders for welders. Jarno Soinila, PipeCloud’s CEO, estimates that digitalisation can increase welding efficiency by 20 to 100 per cent, depending on the situation: “The pipe pre-fabricator’s management sees

A new cooperation between Kemppi and PipeCloud aims to open up benefits for pipe welding companies and their customers, by combining the capability of intelligent welding machines with the information produced by a manufacturing execution system (MES). PipeCloud enables the export of unique data from pipe weld joints based on the 3D design model to Kemppi’s WeldEye software, which returns the work performances back to PipeCloud. “IntegrationwithPipeCloud isonceagain a sign of WeldEye’s easy integration with companies’ key systems,” said Mikko

Kemppi’s Mikko Väisänen (left) and PipeCloud’s Jarno Soinila launch the global software cooperation

in real-time if the welding machines’ arc-on time is, for example, 20 per cent of the total working time. They can then make corrections to production management and also see the effect immediately. Measurable facts replace the gut feeling. “The traceability of welding work is important particularly for the oil and gas industry as well as the nuclear industry. We believe that the traceability requirement for welding will soon be coming to other areas of construction too.” Kemppi Oy – Finland

info@kemppi.com www.kemppi.com PipeCloud Oy – Finland www.pipecloud.fi

The X8 MIG welder’s native connectivity to WeldEye enables welders to receive and view digital work orders

Certification turns structures back into pipes Surface drainage solutions for UK roads have been expanded by the first BBA HAPAS certification of plastic pipe attenuation systems of 900mm diameter or above. The certification is an industry first and paves the way for developers and contractors to benefit from the large capacity, lighter weight and easier site handling of the large diameter plastic Weholite systems. 900mm intended for installation beneath a road had been classified as ‘structures’ rather than pipes, limiting their scope of application. Asset International wanted to achieve BBA HAPAS approval for these larger systems. We had to formulate and agree an assessment/test methodology with Highways England in order for the

Following close collaboration between Highways England, the British Board of Agrément and the British Plastics Federation, Asset International has achieved the BBA’s HAPAS certification for its large-diameter Weholite pipes up to 3,500mm in diameter.

The certification represents the culmination of several years’ technical work, as explained by BBA project manager Calai Vidjeane, a chartered civil engineer: “Previously plastic pipes with an internal diameter of more than

products to be fully evaluated.” Asset International Ltd – UK

sales@weholite.co.uk www.weholite.co.uk

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