February 2004 Technical Presentation

The Procurement and Receipt Inspection of Welding Materials

Date: Thursday February 12, 2004

Time: 6:30-7pm Cocktails

            7-7:45pm Dinner. 

            7:45 - 8:45 Presentation

            The dinner cost is $15. As usual the presentation is always free if dinner is not desired.

Location: P.J. Klem's

                   8000 W. Ogden

                    Lyons, IL 60534

RSVP: RSVP with Denise King at (708) 780-1830 or email to Mike at SMEchapter5@aol.com . Please provide your name and phone number

Summary: Walt Stein is a metallurgist and technical writer with 15 plus years of experience in all major metal manufacturing processes. He worked as a Procurement Engineer for the KG&E Nuclear Power Plant at Wolf creek and Stolle Corporation. He also worked as a fabrication Engineer for Wisconsin Centrifugal.

Walt will discuss a 10-point procurement procedure he developed for the purchase of base metals. These 10 points can be reversed in order for cost-effective receipt-inspection criteria. He will then initiate a short round-table discussion for the application of this procedure to filler metals and atmospheres, including items like SAW fluxes.

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