WPS & PQR software
Code-aware procedure workflows without the spreadsheet risk. Move from preliminary WPS (pWPS) through the procedure qualification record (PQR) to an approved welding procedure specification (WPS) with guided inputs, controlled revisions and supporting evidence.
Watch the workflow
See how WeldTrace creates a WPS from an approved PQR. The data carries over automatically, and the code rules for essential, supplementary essential and non-essential variables keep each change within the PQR’s qualified ranges.
Procedure control
Turn a complex form into a clear, progressive workflow. WeldTrace presents the information relevant to the selected standard and earlier choices, adds contextual help where decisions are made, and carries approved data forward so the author can concentrate on sound welding engineering.
Read more ↗Capture the actual variables, test conditions and supporting evidence that prove the procedure. Information moves from the preliminary WPS into the PQR, where results and third-party evidence can be reviewed before the record becomes the basis for production procedures.
Read more ↗See qualified ranges while the document is being developed instead of discovering conflicts at final review. WeldTrace calculates and presents applicable ranges from the recorded qualification basis, helping competent users make better-informed decisions within the permitted workflow.
Read more ↗Create a defensible path from draft to approved record. Submission status, review comments, authorised changes and revisions remain visible, giving teams a controlled lifecycle rather than a collection of files whose approval history has to be reconstructed.
Read more ↗Work from structured welding data instead of repeatedly typing common values. Extensive base-metal and filler-metal libraries, gases, dimensions, joint details and diagrams help teams create consistent records while retaining the flexibility needed for real procedure work.
Read more ↗Adopt WeldTrace without abandoning procedures that are already approved. Import or add externally created WPS and PQR records, manage their revisions and supporting files, and make them available to qualification and project workflows from the same controlled repository.
Read more ↗PQR explained
A procedure qualification record (PQR) documents the actual variables used to weld a test coupon and the results of the tests performed on it. It is the evidence that a welding procedure produces sound welds: each qualified welding procedure specification (WPS) is supported by one or more PQRs, and its qualified ranges are derived from them.
The base metals and thicknesses, filler metals, process, position, preheat and interpass temperatures, post-weld heat treatment, shielding gas, electrical characteristics and travel speed actually used, together with the tensile, bend, toughness, macro or hardness results and the laboratory reports that prove them.
The PQR records the qualification test as it was performed. The WPS is the instruction for production welding, written within the ranges the PQR qualifies. Under ISO 15614-1 the PQR is called a welding procedure qualification record (WPQR).
Carry the pWPS into the PQR, record the actual values and test results, attach the laboratory reports and create the WPS with qualified ranges calculated from the PQR. Each WPS keeps its supporting PQRs linked through every revision.
Read more ↗Supported codes
Guided templates apply the code rules for essential, supplementary essential and non-essential variables, hide fields that do not apply and warn when a value moves outside the qualified range.
Write WPS and PQR records to ASME Section IX for groove and fillet welds, corrosion-resistant and hardfacing overlays, tube-to-tubesheet joints, and lap and stud welds.
Prepare structural welding procedures for steel, aluminium, bridge and stainless steel work, including the AWS D1.5 maximum and minimum heat input, production procedure and fracture-critical methods.
Qualify pipeline welding procedures to API 1104, including Section 5 with filler metal addition, Section 10 repairs, Section 12 mechanized welding and Annex B in-service welding.
Create preliminary WPS (pWPS), welding procedure qualification records (WPQR) and WPS documents to ISO 15614-1 for arc welding of steels and nickel alloys.
Controlled lifecycle
WeldTrace is designed to preserve the path from proposed procedure through testing and approval.
Prepare the preliminary WPS (pWPS) for the qualification test.
Record the actual variables and test results in the PQR.
Create the qualified WPS from its supporting PQR.
Review, approve and retain the document history.
Move with confidence
