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ASME IX · Welding qualification

ASME IX qualificationshouldn't livein one head.

The qualified range isn't written on the PQR — it has to be derived from the ASME IX rules, one check at a time. WeldMind reads your PQR archive, applies the QW rules and gives you the verdict — with the clause in plain sight — in under a second.

Aligned with ASME IX 2025Pressure-vessel gradeFounding partner · AMD International
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ISO 14731· Who does this work

Three departments stand behind every qualification —
and too many steps are manual.

The welding coordinator derives the ranges and cross-checks the archive. Quality chases certificate expiries and prepares for audits. Production waits for the right WPS — and reworks when the wrong one shows up. WeldMind works for all three.

~5h
of manual work per qualification — finding the PQRs, computing the range, filling the documents — that WeldMind compresses into minutes.
~600 welds, one exchanger▶ one unqualified joint stops the line
Welding coordinator · IWE/IWT
The range isn't on the PQR.
You have to derive it from the ASME IX rules — QW-451 thickness, QW-405 position, QW-424 P-Number — and cross-check dozens of PQRs by hand to see whether a job is already covered. WeldMind does the cross-check and the math in a second. The judgment stays yours.
Quality department
Certificates lapse in silence.
Six-month continuity (QW-322) is the single most common audit gap: the certificate looks fine, but no one kept the log. WeldMind tracks the expiries and warns you ahead — and at audit every result already carries its clause.
Production
The wrong WPS means rework.
A superseded or out-of-range WPS at the machine means joints to redo and parts in quarantine. WeldMind keeps what's qualified aligned with what today's job needs — the right revision, right away.
QW-100· How it works

From paper PQR to signed verdict.
One unified flow.

Drop a PQR. WeldMind reads the variables, applies the ASME IX rules and returns a verdict with every clause in plain sight. No manual cross-references, no spreadsheets to chase.

  1. 01

    Upload

    Drop a PQR — the shop-floor Excel or an old scan from the archive. WeldMind reads every essential variable and checks it back against the source page, flagging anything that needs review.

  2. 02

    Verify

    It checks every variable against the ASME IX 2025 rules — essential, supplementary, non-essential — applies the right range and explains every decision.

  3. 03

    Sign

    Verdict in one screen, audit trail ready for the inspector. Export the signed WPS as a PDF on your company template.

QW-150· The engine

Read the archive.
Apply the rules.
Sign the verdict.

WeldMind reads your PQRs and WPSs — Excel files from the shop floor or old scans from the archive — applies the ASME IX 2025 rules and returns a verdict: qualified or not, and why. Every check points back to the exact QW clause. Same document, same verdict, every time.

STEP 01

Reading the documents

Your Excel PQR/WPS/WPQ templates from the shop floor. The old paper scans from the archive. WeldMind pulls every field and checks it against the source page, flagging anything that doesn't add up.

// document: PQR-1987-04C.pdf
base_metal "SA-516 Gr.70"
thickness_mm 12.7
process "GTAW + SMAW"
filler "ER70S-2 / E7018"
position "6G"
✓ read · all essential variables · 0 to resolve
STEP 02

Checking the rules

Every variable runs through the ASME IX 2025 rules. Essential, supplementary, non-essential — the engine separates them, applies the right range and explains every decision.

QW-403.6 base metal P-No.
PASS P-No.1 ⊂ qualified
QW-404.4 filler F-No.
PASS F-No.6 ⊂ qualified
QW-451.1 thickness range
PASS t=12.7 ∈ [5–25] mm
QW-405.1 position
REVIEW 6G qualifies all
STEP 03

Signed verdict

One screen. Qualified or not. With every reason: which range applies, which PQR came closest, and a full audit trail that survives an ASME inspector's questions.

// verdict
status QUALIFIED
range_t 5–25 mm
positions all (6G)
near_miss PQR-2019-12
clauses all · checked
issued issued · just now
QW-322· Beyond the verdict

Not a chatbot that guesses. The rule, applied.

Anyone who's used ChatGPT knows it sometimes makes things up. WeldMind doesn't: for the verdict it doesn't interpret — it applies the ASME IX rules exactly as written and shows you the clause it used. The only place it uses artificial intelligence is to read your old documents and answer your questions about the code — never to decide whether a weld is qualified. And it grows with you: the next step is to load a whole Welding Map and qualify the entire job in a single pass.

Certificates

Certificates lapse. You know first.

A welder's qualification holds as long as they keep working continuously: six months without using that process (QW-322) and it lapses. WeldMind keeps the log, computes the expiries and warns you ahead — so you don't discover a lapsed certificate during an audit or, worse, after the joint is already welded.

ASME expert

A question about the code? Ask, and it answers.

Which clause applies to a dissimilar joint? How many specimens for this thickness? WeldMind holds the ASME texts — Section IX, VIII, II Part C — and answers your question citing the exact point. Like having the code expert always at the desk, without leafing through hundreds of pages.

Auditable

Every result carries its clause.

No black box. Each verdict ships with the clause text, the rule that was applied, the value that was checked and the range that was satisfied. ASME inspectors and TPV auditors verify in one click — and you never have to explain “how does it know that.”

QW-300· Founding partner

At AMD International, WeldMind checks every procedure against 64 PQRs in under a tenth of a second, computes the QW-451 range with all its exceptions and fills the WPS on the audited company template. The coordinator keeps the work that matters — the Welding Map — and stops re-checking calculations and transcriptions by hand.

AMD InternationalPressure-equipment fabricator · ASME Section IX · Italy
In production
AMD International
Pressure vessels & heat exchangers · ASME BPVC Section IX · Italy
64
PQRs in the AMD archive
<100ms
to a qualification verdict
0
false positives across tests run
5
ASME IX rules on every check
ASME IX 2025 · now in force

Bring us ten PQRs.
We'll show you the verdict.

No slideware. We take your real PQRs — Excel or scans — and show you WeldMind reading them, applying the ASME IX 2025 rules (now in force) and qualifying your procedures. On your archive, with your joints.