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The IIW White Paper is a booklet produced by a panel of 80 experts of the IIW, aimed at providing reader with a picture on welding and allied technologies dated 2012, but mainly focused on the challenges and direction of these technologies for the next 20 years. Statistical data on value added by welding and welding related occupation are included in the first part, while the main content is devoted to evaluating technologies, processes, materials, inspection and testing techniques, standard and codes which can potentially become state of the art in the next years. A section is also devoted to identify those changes in the industrial world that can impress a driving force to welding and allied technologies. The article is a non-exhaustive resume of the IIW White Paper, while the full document is available for free on the IIW website (www.iiwelding.org). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides information on the start and rapid development of training, research and laboratory activities of IIS and IIS Progress in Italy and abroad. In particular, two successive periods are considered separately for the first and the remaining tasks, the first one of affirmation and development of training and research activities and of start and growth of the Laboratory, the second one, characterized by the availability of the new modern IIS headquarters, of vigorous growth, also due to the reorganization of the corporate structure and to the preparation of the partition that led to the birth of the IIS Group. The latter includes, as it is now well known, along with IIS ente morale (Non-proflt Organization), IIS Cert srl (Ltd.), IIS Service srl (Ltd.), both created in early 2011, and IIS Progress srl (Ltd.) which was created in early 2013. At the same time the most important events are remembered related to the acquisition in 1988 of the new and well-equipped IIS headquarters in Genoa and, in the following years, of a number of offices in other Italian locations. IIS Group had in force at the end of 2013 approximately 225 employees (including about sixty graduates engineers and a hundred technical graduates), of which almost a quarter are employees and managers of IIS Progress. Appears as well as in over sixty years of activity before IIS and afler the IIS Group have been won a reputation for professionalism, reliability and expertise that have made it one of the most comprehensive European benchmarks in the field of joining and related and connected techniques, appreciated everywhere it has acted, in Italy, in Europe and in other continents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers information on the beginning and the development in Italy and abroad of technical assistance activities performed by IIS and later on by IIS Service srl. At the purpose, three subsequent periods are considered: a first one of affirmation of such activities; an intermediate one of consolidation of IIS on the market and of beginning of organization of its structure; a final one of further growth of such activities and of development and completion of IIS restructuring in order to prepare the partition which originated the IIS Group. The latter comprehends IIS Ente Morale (no profit distributing society), IIS Cert srl (Ltd) and IIS Service srl (Ltd), established at the beginning of 2011, and IIS Progress srl (Ltd), established at the beginning of 2013. In particular, the paper shows how, in some sixty years of activity, IIS gained a fame of seriousness, reliability and competence, that have made it one of the most comprehensive benchmarks in the field of welding, allied processes and connected techniques, appreciated everywhere it acted, in Italy, in Europe and in other continents. Finally, it is remembered that in 1988 IIS acquired with its own resources a modern and well-equipped headquarters in Genoa, that, in mid-2013, IIS Group owned various other regional offices and that at the time had in force some 225 employees (including some sixty graduate engineers and some one hundred technical licentiates), about half of whom are employees and managers of IIS Service srl. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers information on the beginning of qualification/certification activities in Italy and data and indications on the experiences gained by Italian Institute of Welding (Certifying Body Accredited by Sincert, and then Accredia, and Notified CE, www.iis.it) and more recently by IIS CERT (Certifying Body Accredited by Accredia and Notified CE, www.iiscert.it), applying the standards EN 473, ISO 9712 and the directive 97/23/CE (PED) on qualification, certification and approval ofnon destructive testing personnel. Particularly information updated to 31 July 2012 are given and discussed on the activity of qualification/certification since January 2001 (starting year for the application of EN 473, second edition, and PED directive) with reference to the issued certifications and approvals and to their distribution in method and level. Furthermore, it is reported that at the beginning of 2011 IIS originated two branches, IIS CERT e IIS SERVICE, both totally owned and passed to the first one its activities of certification and approval. Instead IIS maintained the training, education and laboratory activities; all of them, together with research and development activities, will be transferred to a third IIS branch, IIS PROGRESS (www.iisprogress.it), which will officially start these activities at the beginning of 2013. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]