Measuring Welder Productivity

GA, I don't know how many times I've been on the job with tools in hand ready to go... only to wait for parts. Makes me look bad, but nothing I can do about it. Logistics MUST be working efficiently before any other part of the "Team" can operate at maximum efficiency.

Having a fabrication and design business with a road crew and have worked in engineering, I experienced that welder productivity was highly dependent upon the support.

More times than not, other department inefficiencies would show up at either the assembly or when control were being installed.

I was going to post this off-topic, but it isn't.

p911

Hi Krish

The best way is to go and have ago at welding your self and find out how time consuming a job it can be to do a proper job with all the prep work and inspection, then when you come to estimate it double your estimate you probably wont be far out

Jim

There are two reasons. Either the estimator is basing his estimate on ideal conditions or the welders are not qualified for the job.

You are the man on the job so why don't you set up a log of operations and keep track of your crews, procedures, time your operations, run comparisons etc. Work out these things and give yourself a baseline compare to your estimates then re quote your man hours or get better welders.

Dear Krishnaraj,

Efficiency Of Deposition is the ratio of Weight of the welded metal to the weight of the consumed electrode.

Using the values available w.r.t to the parent metals before welding and after welding you can get the weight of the welded metal and Dividing this by the weight of the consumed electrode you get the efficiency of deposition there by You get the value per electrode if you divide by number of electrodes on proportion to the weight there by productivity.