IIW-India adding skills to welding technology

April 12, 2014 5:36 am

“The issue of skilled and semiskilled manpower availability has been always accorded top priority by IIW-India,” says Viay Agwan, Regioal Director (West), IIW-India
IIW-India was established in 1966. How is the journey being so far, and what are the innovative programs you have come up with?IIW-India has started as an association of welding professionals with the aim to share the knowledge and technical data resources. As the welding activities grew in India, both quantitatively and qualitatively, IIW India started providing solutions to the arising situations related to the technology and the expertise in welding.
IIW-India, recognising the needs within India, has started addressing these issues at national level through its AM-IIW and NWCTS programmes for the personnel. The membership criteria were streamlined, and the examinations route was opened in mid-90s. The AM-IIW qualification was approved by the Government of India, being equivalent to the engineering degree through the gazette notification.
IIW-India has been a member of the International Institute of Welding (IIW/IIS) as well as the American Welding Society. When ISO body entrusted the responsibility of implementation of welding-related standards globally, IIW/IIS chose IIW-India as the only institution, having credibility to help achieve these goals in India.
Today it is the only authorised national body for awarding international qualifications to the welding user industries and the personnel working therein as per ISO:3834 and ISO:14731, respectively.
These qualifications, though voluntary at present, are becoming an order of the day as we go on to the inevitable next growth phase in India. They are considered almost a necessity in the days of rapid globalisation.
Homogenisation of the welding standards worldwide is very desirable and happening in every nation, and IIW-India is fully shouldering this responsibility.
How is it contributing to the growth of welding industry in India?Like every technology, welding also depends on three main factors: applications, equipment and expertise. IIW-India provides opportunities with annual national welding seminars as well as national welding meets to the manufacturers of the equipment to showcase, display and demonstrate the latest developments made available by them to the users, who gather there to deliberate on the technical issues being faced by them, individually and collectively.
The branches of IIW, spread all over India, also contribute by providing a platform to the practicing welding fraternity for technical deliberations, through their monthly technical lectures as well as annual branch seminars, meets and specially organised workshops and conferences.
These interactions always have snowballing effect, leading to setting up directions for continual multi-pronged growth.

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