Specification by Example is an agile approach to delivering software where the requirements are defined as executable specifications. Teams identify the scope of the work and illustrate the intended ...

Reports that welds on Navy submarines and aircraft carriers being built at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia may have been purposely faulty have prompted a congressional investigation. In a joint ...

Shipuilder Newport News Shipbuilding, Va., informed the Department of Justice of faulty welds that may have been made intentionally on non-critical components on in-service Navy submarines and ...

In my last blog, I analyzed welding procedure specifications (WPSs). In this installment, I thought it might be time to address a specific part of the whole WPS—essential variables. Essential ...

Abstract: Industry 4.0, the scheme that drives the fourth industrial revolution, has been, since its conception, reshaping the manufacturing industry. To advance current industrial chains into the ...

Editor’s Note: On Sept. 20, Jason Becker, host of the Arc Junkies Podcast, recorded an episode titled “WPS, PQR, WPQR, and other acronyms,” with Lincoln Electric Charlie Cross, welding technical ...

American women are seeking help from Mexico for abortions, crystallizing the shifting policies of two nations that once held vastly different positions on the procedure. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and ...

Welding creates problems for fleet managers because construction equipment does not fall into a neat category. A welder cannot qualify a hard-facing procedure to a structural steel welding code, for ...

We’ve been aware of the shortage of skilled welders due to retirements for some time. In recent years the shortage has been exacerbated by furloughing or the early retirement of workers during the ...