Special Programs

• Mr. Claude Bouillot, Technical Manager, M/s Air Liquide Welding France delivered a lecture on “Flux Cored Submerged Arc Welding” on 02nd February 2013.
• A talk on "Process and Quality Improvement through Arc Welding Signature Analysis" by Prof. Dietrich Rehfeldt, University of Hanover, Germany, was conducted on 23rd Feb 2013.
• Dr. Andre Schneider, Director, Vallourec Research Center, Mr. Bruno Lefebvre, Manager, Technical Customer Services, M/s V&M gave technical presentations on AUSC boiler grade materials-Alloy 617, T24 and VM 12 on 28th Feb 2013.
• Mr. D S Honavar, Chairman, M/s Honavar Electrodes Limited, Indore visited WRI on 19th Jan 2013 and gave a talk covering various aspects of welding.
• A Lecture on “The Global Trends In Engineering Education And The Challenges Ahead For Indian Researchers” was delivered by Dr. R. Rudramurthy, Principal, PSG Tech. Coimbatore on 23/04/2013.
• Mr. Vishal D Mehta, Director, M/s Supertech Services Pvt Ltd, Pune visited WRI along with Mr. Neil Le Quesne, Director, M/s K TIG, Australia and Mr. Laurie Jarvis, Director R&D, M/s K TIG, Australia and made a presentation about the high performance K TIG process on 29th May 2013.
• M/s Takeo Noguchi, Toshihide Ono, Takeshi Muramatsu from M/s Nippon Steel & Sumitomo made a presentation on the new materials on 17th May 2013 at Purchase Conference Hall, attended by WRI officials.
• M/s GE Inspection Technologies, Bengaluru gave a presentation on PAUT and demonstrated the capabilities of their PAUT equipment USM Vision for tube to tube butt welds.
• Dr. Ingbert Klopfer from M/s Rumul resonant fatigue testing machines gave a presentation on “Resonant fatigue testing and its applications” on 18th July 2013.
• Dr. Raghu Prakash, Professor, IIT Madras, visited WRI and gave a talk on the efforts taken with regard to the development of a Scooping Tool for miniature specimen evaluation on 3rd July 2013.
• Dr.Zhongjie Liu from the welding product division, OTC Daihen visited WRI on October 7, 2013 and gave a talk on recently developed process called Anti wind welding.
• Mr. Takashi Yamamoto from Panasonic Welding Systems Co. Ltd., Japan andMr.Aman Jain from Panasonic Welding Systems India Ltd. visited WRI on November 26, 2013 for apresentation on product range including new developments at Panasonic welding systems.