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First page of the Therness guide: API 1104: Workmanship or Fitness-for-Service, and Proving Either
Reference Guide 3 pages · EN

API 1104: Workmanship or Fitness-for-Service, and Proving Either

Two acceptance routes, chosen long before anyone reads a radiograph. What the alternative route actually obliges you to produce, and why aggregate length governs more often than the worst single indication.

  • What the fracture-mechanics route really costs in data and analysis.
  • Why clock position belongs in the rejection log.
  • Radiographic sensitivity as part of the acceptance criterion, not paperwork.
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First page of the Therness guide: Heat Input: Calculating It, Controlling It, Proving It
Working Sheet 3 pages · EN

Heat Input: Calculating It, Controlling It, Proving It

A working sheet with the formula, a worked check you can run on a real weld in two minutes, and the three production effects that put heat input outside its qualified range while every meter reading looks fine.

  • Arc energy vs heat input: the convention that makes two numbers incomparable.
  • Why travel speed carries the error, and how weave breaks the range invisibly.
  • A two-minute shop-floor check against a real run, worked end to end.
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First page of the Therness guide: AWS D1.1: Statically vs Cyclically Loaded, and What It Costs You
Reference Guide 3 pages · EN

AWS D1.1: Statically vs Cyclically Loaded, and What It Costs You

The visual acceptance criteria are not one table. The static/cyclic classification changes the limits, and getting it wrong invalidates the inspection record rather than one weld.

  • Why static vs cyclic is a design input, not a call inspection makes on the day.
  • How shops lose prequalified status without noticing.
  • Preheat and interpass: acceptance criteria that almost nobody measures.
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First page of the Therness guide: ASME B31.3: Deciding Fluid Service, Examination and Evidence
Reference Guide 3 pages · EN

ASME B31.3: Deciding Fluid Service, Examination and Evidence

Nearly every B31.3 welding argument traces back to a fluid service category assigned much earlier. How that choice propagates into examination extent, and what closes it out under audit.

  • Who assigns fluid service, and why reclassifying a line after welding is unrecoverable.
  • The three ways a random examination percentage stops being representative.
  • Progressive examination after a rejection - the most-missed obligation in the clause.
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First page of the Therness guide: Specifying ISO 13920 Tolerance Classes Without Overpaying
Reference Guide 3 pages · EN

Specifying ISO 13920 Tolerance Classes Without Overpaying

General tolerances decide fabrication cost more than almost anything else on the drawing. Which class to invoke, why the form class is the expensive one, and how to measure it without an argument.

  • Why the two class letters are not equally important, and which one moves cost.
  • How to split a drawing instead of tightening the general class everywhere.
  • The three measurement rules that settle most tolerance disputes before they start.
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First page of the Therness guide to choosing an ISO 5817 quality level
Reference Guide 4 pages · EN

Choosing and Proving an ISO 5817 Quality Level

The part the standard does not cover: which level to specify, who decides, and what evidence stands up in an audit six months later. Companion to the ISO 5817 acceptance criteria guide.

  • How to pick B, C or D per joint instead of blanket-specifying the tightest level.
  • The six findings that cause most visual rejections, and why undercut leads.
  • The four things an ISO 3834 or EN 1090 auditor actually asks to see.
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Product Catalog 19 pages · EN

Therness Product Catalog: Welding Camera Systems

Every Therness thermal camera, weld-pool camera, HeatCore monitoring system and signal acquisition unit in one PDF, with specifications, integration options and a selection guide.

  • Specifications for the HeatCam IR-C and IR-S thermal cameras and the 480 fps PoolDrop weld-pool camera.
  • HeatCore Basic, AI and Robotic side by side, with what each tier adds and the upgrade path.
  • WeldTrace signal acquisition, the add-on modules, and a guide from requirement to product.
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First page preview of the Therness Business Case
Business Case ROI model · EN

Therness Business Case: ROI of AI Weld Monitoring

See how a Therness deployment pays back: scrap reduction, rework hours saved, and traceable evidence for ISO 17635/3834 audits — modeled on real welding production data.

  • Quantified ROI from scrap and rework reduction.
  • Deployment cost vs. payback timeline.
  • Compliance value tied to ISO 17635 evidence packs.
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First page preview of the Active Thermography white paper
Technical White Paper 10 pages · EN

Introduction to Active Thermography for Non-Destructive Testing

An in-depth white paper covering the principles, techniques, and applications of Active Thermography for advanced material inspection and quality control — ideal alongside our industrial thermography service.

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First page of the Therness guide to API 650 tank weld inspection
Reference Guide 4 pages · EN

API 650 Tank Welding: Deciding NDE Extent and Closing the Evidence Trail

Why the bottom, shell, roof and nozzles are different NDE problems, what actually sets the required examination extent, and the joint map an auditor asks for.

  • Why vacuum box testing on bottom seams checks leak-tightness, not general weld quality.
  • Why plate thickness and joint category, not joint efficiency, set the extent for most tanks.
  • The joint map that turns 'we examined enough' into a checkable claim.
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First page of the Therness guide to ISO 9606-1 range of approval
Reference Guide 4 pages · EN

ISO 9606-1 Range of Approval: The Decisions Behind the Certificate

The gap between what a welder's certificate says and whether it actually covers the job in front of them - essential variables, position coverage logic, and the misreadings that recur in audits.

  • Why one certificate is not a blanket qualification for every job on that process.
  • Position coverage follows the standard's grouping, not intuitive difficulty.
  • Five range-of-approval findings that recur in practice, and the five-minute check that catches each one before assignment.
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First page of the Therness Magnetic Particle Testing weld checklist
Checklist 4 pages · EN

Magnetic Particle Testing of Welds: A Pre-Inspection and Acceptance Checklist

The setup and evaluation checks that decide whether an MT result is trustworthy - because a clean result from a badly set up test looks exactly like a clean result from a properly set up one.

  • The two-shot magnetisation rule, and the crack orientation a single-direction shot misses.
  • A full documentation checklist so a report can be verified without repeating the test.
  • Five findings that recur in MT audits, from method-material mismatches to undocumented field strength.
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