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In CW50-2010 efforts to continuous improvement and development of IMR’s welding technology culminated after several processes checks and reference annealing now in the successful and timely completion of the first “P92” weld in manual TIG/E process within the new coal fired power plant Wilhelmshaven for Electrabel Gas de France Suez with the dimensions of outer diameter 570 x wall thickness 75 [mm ]. Figure 1 shows one of our HD-welder at important measuring of the pipes inner misalignment.

After a well deserved Christmas break of our HD pipeline welders was in KW02-2011 now run the second weld of excellent quality. Figure 2 gives an impression of the welding task.

The ultrasound examinations in CW01-2011 of the first and in CW03-2011 of the second weld confirmed the standard conform welding of the welds under the supervision of our customers from Duisburg and of the Notified Body TUEV Rheinland. The UT Inspector our business partner Pockrandt, Oberhausen can be seen in Figure 3 during its audit work.

In the competition as a system supplier for assembly and welding technology of e.g. fresh steam pipes and turbine connections strives the IMR further at the head in the processing of the material X 10 CrWMoV 9-2 (material number 1.4901). The long winter was used to weld together in January 2010 pipes from the so-called “P92” material with the dimensions 330×64.

This king’s class of the high pressure-pipe line construction is the measuring pole for everybody who wants to be possible as a supplier for modern power plants. An extract from the metallurgical investigations of the test lab Herne of our partner „Germanischer Lloyd Hamburg“ is added to this article. Among the rest, the reimbursement effect is to be easily recognized in this picture very well by the clearly finer grain under the hot passed, lower E-Hand welded layers.

October 2009: In Cooperation with Hitachi Power Europe GmbH IMR has successfully introduced different Software-Solutions from the Piping Solution of Intergraph PP&M Germany GmbH. With the help of SmartPlant Isometrics based on the ISOGEN-Standard 80 KKS within small bore piping have allready been designed.

The KKS respectively the Isometrics and the associated bill of material after *.idf import or own construction in Isometrics are available both as paper print out and as file in the formats *.pdf, *.dgn, *.pcf, *.dwg and *.pod.

The control over process engineering , material logistics resp. provisioning , welding tracking, progress controling and quality asurrance are expedited within the software PiCoDa (PipingControllingDatabase). In this database all engineering, procurement and construction relevant information of our customer and of ourselves are e.G. imported as Excel-Import and serves apart from the central supervision of these processes also as automated input for the customizable text fields of the Isometrics. Furthermore an automated documentation according to the european pressure equipment directive is provided.

The up-to-date advantages of digitalized engineering documents and the centralized management via our IT-infrastructure based on our new part HP/ part Cisco server in Hamburg and on our Network Attached Storages in the on-site LAN’s are forging ahead and are available for our customers for their engineering and controlling processes in so to speak real-time.