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Back to Company SearchWELDQC, INC.
Address
1165 Chambers RoadColumbus, OH, 43212
USA
UEI: CYJ7DP1PKPJ1
Number of Employees: 4
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
SBIR/STTR Involvement
Year of first award: 1999
7
Phase I Awards
3
Phase II Awards
42.86%
Conversion Rate
$377,915
Phase I Dollars
$1,247,522
Phase II Dollars
$1,625,437
Total Awarded
Awards
IMPROVEMENT OF PIPE FABRICATION WITH WELD PENETRATION MONITORING
Amount: $69,796 Topic: N05-154
Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) is the most widely used manufacturing process for producing high-quality welds in piping for Navy ship construction. The majority of welds in these piping applications must achieve complete penetration of the weld joint. However, in practice, a variety of factors affect the ability to consistently produce complete penetration welds: including variations in material thickness, material chemical composition, joint preparation, and joint fit-up tolerances. It is both costly, and difficult, if not impossible; to adequately control all of the variables that affect weld penetration. WeldQC proposes to evaluate the feasibility of developing a system for monitoring the state of weld penetration and providing feedback to welders. The design of the system would allow easy integration onto existing shipyard welding systems, and would provide information to the welder, allowing them to adjust the welding process as needed to consistently achieve complete penetration.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2006
DOW
NAVY
Development of an Intelligent Shipyard Welding Procedure System
Amount: $499,131 Topic: N03-105
In Phase 1, a prototype system was developed to demonstrate both the technical feasibility and the financial viability of developing a system for managing welding procedure information both within the shipyard and across the supply chain. The system was referred to as the Intelligent Shipyard Welding Procedure System (ISWP). The ISWP System will assist the vendors in developing, validating and submitting welding procedures to shipyards. The system will also potentially assist shipyards in managing their own internal welding procedures. The objectives of the Phase 2 effort are: · Define detailed functional and design requirements for the ISWP System, · Incorporate the requirements of the applicable military specifications into a complete set of data validation "rules", · Construct a fully functional ISWP suitable for beta testing, · Field test and demonstrate the ISWP system at shipyards and vendors, and · Develop an implementation plan. WeldQC, Inc. has formed a team of the following potential end-users of the ISWP to accomplish these objectives: Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN), General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW). Shipyard vendors will also have significant involvement.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2004
DOW
NAVY
Development of Flux-Core Electrodes for Welding Large Titanium Structures
Amount: $98,880 Topic: N04-124
Arc Welding of titanium has always been a challenging engineering problem, requiring shielding from atmospheric contamination (e.g., oxygen and nitrogen) until the metal is below approximately 400oC. Small titanium weldments are typically welded in inert gas chambers. However chambers are impractical for welding large structures. Instead, auxiliary shielding devices (e.g., trail- and back-side shields) must be provided, which result in significantly higher costs, and require a high level of skill. Thus, developing a method of producing high-quality titanium welds, without the need for auxiliary shielding devices, would provide a significant cost benefit for fabricating large titanium structures. One potential method of eliminating the need for auxiliary shielding devices is to develop a flux-cored consumable to shield the weld metal with a blanket of slag. WeldQC, Inc. proposes to evaluate the feasibility of developing flux-cored consumables for welding titanium using the GTAW and FCAW processes. The proposed effort will address the needs of the SBIR Topic No. N04-124 "Joining Methodologies for Titanium Alloys" by developing a cost-effective method of welding large-scale titanium weldments, which have acceptable levels of interstitial elements and mechanical properties. WeldQC, Inc. has formed a team with Colorado School of Mines (CSM), The Stoody Company, and Ingalls Shipbuilding.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2004
DOW
NAVY
Development of a System to Support Continuous Improvement of Shipyard Welding Operations
Amount: $498,412
In Phase 1, WeldWare demonstrated the feasibility of using a portable computer-based device to collect weld quality data, referred to as the Weld Quality Manager (WQM). Further development of WQM to integrate lean-enterprise / six-sigma methodologies forshipbuilding welding applications would provide important financial and quality benefits. The ability to apply these methodologies to welding has been identified by U.S. shipyards as having a major impact on increasing productivity and reducing costs. Thefollowing team has been assembled to develop an electronic method of efficiently applying lean-enterprise and/or six-sigma methodologies to welding: WeldWare, Inc., Edison Welding Institute, Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN) and General DynamicsElectric Boat (GDEB). To accomplish this objective, the following tasks will be performed. First, an efficient means of collecting data will be developed. Based on input from the shipyards, WeldWare will modify WQM for capturing data for
Tagged as:
STTR
Phase II
2003
DOW
NAVY
Development of a System to Support Continuous Improvement of Shipyard Welding Operations
Amount: $0
In Phase 1, WeldWare demonstrated the feasibility of using a portable computer-based device to collect weld quality data, referred to as the Weld Quality Manager (WQM). Further development of WQM to integrate lean-enterprise / six-sigma methodologies forshipbuilding welding applications would provide important financial and quality benefits. The ability to apply these methodologies to welding has been identified by U.S. shipyards as having a major impact on increasing productivity and reducing costs. Thefollowing team has been assembled to develop an electronic method of efficiently applying lean-enterprise and/or six-sigma methodologies to welding: WeldWare, Inc., Edison Welding Institute, Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN) and General DynamicsElectric Boat (GDEB). To accomplish this objective, the following tasks will be performed. First, an efficient means of collecting data will be developed. Based on input from the shipyards, WeldWare will modify WQM for capturing data for
Tagged as:
STTR
Phase I
2003
DOW
NAVY
Intelligent Shipyard Welding Procedure System
Amount: $69,667
Welding is a major shipbuilding activity requiring a large amount of labor-intensive documentation. Not only is the time required for preparing, documenting and validating welding procedures costly, but in many instances improper documentation results insignificant delays in the production schedule. Shipbuilders recognize that productivity could be enhanced through computerization of welding procedure information, as demonstrated by letters received from five major U.S. Shipyards which support theproposed effort.WeldWare proposes to develop an Intelligent Shipyard Welding Procedure (ISWP) system to reduce both costs and construction delays which result from improper welding procedure documentation submitted by suppliers. The proposed system meets the needs ofthe
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2003
DOW
NAVY
Cost Reduction through Weld Penetration Control in Ship Piping Fabrication
Amount: $69,815
An advanced welding process control technology is proposed which can dramatically reduce the cost for welded piping in new ship construction. The Weld Pool Oscillation Sensor (WPOS) can be used to measure weld penetration while the weld is being made. The WPOS technology has been researched for over 15 years and has been shown to be effective and robust. The WPOS has not been commercialized because patents have protected two key underlying technologies. WeldWare has obtained licenses to these key patents. WeldWare, Inc. and Edison Welding Institute have formed a team to further develop and commercialize the WPOS. The team represents most of the expertise world-wide in the WPOS technology. The objectives of Phase 1 are to demonstrate the WPOS technology on a shipyard application and to perform return-on-investment (ROI) analysis. Representatives from two shipyards (Ingalls Shipbuilding and Newport News Shipbuilding) will be on the project team to help steer the project. An existing prototype laboratory WPOS system will be used for the testing. A shipyard piping application will be selected and the WPOS will be optimized and demonstrated on the selected application. Data will be collected to support the ROI analysis. A report will be written which details the findings.
Tagged as:
STTR
Phase I
1999
DOW
NAVY
Reduction of Manufacturing and Repair Costs for the AAAV
Amount: $69,757
The quality of high-integrity welds in vehicles like the AAAV is critical to the performance of the vehicle. The ability to control weld quality significantly affects the manufacturing and repair costs of a vehicle. Traditionally, the control of weld quality has been labor intensive. For example, for the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter the cost of developing weld inspection procedures and inspecting the welds was approximately three times that for the actual welding itself. Cost reduction can be achieved by eliminating paper documentation of inspection information by converting this information to electronic formats which allows greater use of advanced analysis methodologies and provides an electronically connected and distributed working environment. The feasibility of developing a tool to enter, store, retrieve and analyze weld quality data in an efficient and timely manner is proposed. The proposed tool referred to as Welding Quality Manager (WQM) uses an image of the weldment to assist the QC Inspector in entering weld defect data into a database. The same image of the weldment is used as the focal point for defect analysis of the weldment. The cost savings and technical impact of obtaining statistically-based information about weld defects will be determined to address the needs of the Navy N99T002 ity onnel at both the Woodridge, VA and Lima, OH facilities indicated the need for a tool like WQM.
Tagged as:
STTR
Phase I
1999
DOW
NAVY