Duration
5 days
Training Structure
Joint Continuing Education Office, IUT Nîmes
Overview
This micro-certification is designed to train senior technicians in arc welding processes and quality assurance methods.
The Benefits of the Training Program
Next training session: June 28–July 2, 2027
Objectives
- Implement arc welding processes
- Check that welding equipment and devices are in good working order
- Set the welding parameters according to the DMOS related to the operation
- Review and verify the compliance of the technical components of the action plan (DMOS, work instructions, parts to be welded, etc.)
Program
This micro-certification consists of 35 hours of in-person training spread over 5 days.
PROGRAM
Day 1
- Course: Overview of the Welding Process (definitions, welding energy, dilution, consequences of the process)
- Demonstrations and hands-on activities: various welding and cutting processes available on the IUT’s technology platform
- TIG/EE Lab: Implementation
Day 2
- Course: TIG Welding: Principles, Equipment (power sources, electrodes, torches), Gases, and Applications High-Performance Processes: A-TIG, Automatic Welding (hot wire, multi-cathode, orbital TIG), Electrode
- Practical Training: TIG/EE: Parameter Settings + Fusion Line + Assembly
Day 3
- Course: Fundamentals of general metallurgy and welding metallurgy, microstructural characteristics, standardization, carbon steels, stainless steels, light alloys, nickel alloys, copper alloys, noble metals (titanium, zirconium, molybdenum), gases used in TIG welding...
- Laboratory sessions with demonstrations: mechanical testing (tensile strength, hardness, impact strength, bending) Macrographs, micrographs
Day 4
- Welding Standards: DMOS, QMOS: EN ISO 15614-1; QS: EN ISO 9606-1
- TP TIG/EE: Workstation Setup, DMOS Monitoring
Day 5
- TIG Practical Training: QMOS Preparation
- Evaluation
- Q&A and Course Summary