ISO 3834 is an international standard created by welding professionals to provide the quality requirements for a welded products. ISO 3834 provides details to the specific complementary elements of ISO 9001. ISO 9001 provides the requirements for a quality management system; it does not establish requirements for products. ISO 3834 on the other hand, does provide the quality requirements for a welded product.
ISO 9001 is a comprehensive standard that lays down quality management system requirements for any organisation. However, it does not prescribe specific details for “special processes”. Welding is regarded as a “special process”. ISO 3834 was developed to identify all factors that could affect the quality of welded product and which need to be controlled at all stages, before, during and after welding.
The standard encourages a proactive process orientated approach to managing and controlling welding product quality in a workshop or on site. It is also a Factory Control System to control activities for the manufacture of the product.
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