Welding quality control and monitoring system

A quality assurance system, comprising:

• an internet/wide area network interface configured to provide bidirectional communication with user terminals;
• a wireless interface configured to provide bidirectional communication with mobile user terminals;
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• a quality assurance database cooperatively coupled with a database manager configured to populate the quality assurance database with identifications of individual ones of a plurality of construction project welders, weld inspectors and a plurality of weld data logs individual ones of which are associated with a specific welding operation of a construction project, each weld data log being configured to store information that is at least descriptive of a welder, material used during the specific welding operation, specifics of a completed weld including at least weld location, weld type and weld dimensions, and information descriptive of a weld examination, where information entry into at least one weld data log is made by a weld inspector using a report from one of the mobile user terminals.

A computer-readable memory that stores a program of computer-executable instructions, where execution of the instructions results in operations that comprise:

• populating a quality assurance database with identifications of individual ones of a plurality of construction project welders and weld inspectors;
• further populating the quality assurance data base with a plurality of weld data logs individual ones of which are associated with a specific welding operation of the construction project, each weld data log being configured to store information that is at least descriptive of a welder, material used during the specific welding operation, specifics of a completed weld including at least a unique weld identifier, weld location, weld type and weld dimensions, and information descriptive of a weld examination;
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• periodically generating at least one type of report based at least on the plurality of weld data logs, where information entry into at least one weld data log is made by a weld inspector using a mobile terminal that is capable of wireless communication with the quality assurance database.