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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ACTIVITIES

Highlights of the activities of the IIW Mumbai Branch, since its formation is given below

1972-73

A technical Seminar with lectures by

S/Shri. R.Gosh

H.L.Prabhakar

S.V.Nadkarni

D.S.Honavar

Two technical talk by S/Shri M.H.Pherwani & B.O.Gregg
A film show on welding processes and safety aspects.
1973-74
Four technical lectures by

S/shri. M.V.D.Kamath

R.R.Mitra

P.S.Visvanath

E.Macheranch.(W.Germany)

A discussion on "Rutile and Basic Coated electrodes" for the benefit of welders.
A technical Library started functioning.

1974-75

Welding seminar with 5 papers
Three technical lectures by

S/Shri. H.L.Prabhakar

M.V.D.Kamath

D.D.Garg & W.E.Muller(Switzerland)

A Refresher Course in Welding Engineering Shri.M.V.D.Kamath was the Course Director.
A Symposium on "Behaviour of metals and alloys in welding" jointly with Indian Institute of Metals
Plant visit-cum-technical lectures at Pune and Walchandnagar

1975-76

Four technical lectures by

S/Shri. Harjit Singh

S.V.Nadkarni

V.R.Subramanian

H.Mac Lellen(United Kingdom)

Four film shows.
Technical books added to the Library

1976-77

Seminar on "welding of Stainless & Hear Resistant Steel" jointly with IIM & Industrial Metallurgy Divn.
Four technical lectures by

S/Shri. Dr. K.G.Chandiramani.

M.A.Mudde (Netherlands)

A.D.Hattangadi (Philadellphia)

S.Poulange (France)

Two week residential winter school in welding technology.

1977-78

Five technical lectures by

S/Shri. S.S.Karnad.

D.S.Modi & S.K.Sen.

A.J.Ricckar (United Kingdom)

S.Dittrich (West Failisher Union)

G.M.Evans (Switzerland)

Seminar on "Fabrication of Pressure Veesels for chemical, Petro-chemical and Fertilizer Industries"
A 3-days "Welders Meet’ jointly with Fr. Agnel Technical Institute.

1978-79

Workshop on "Welding in Ship-building Industry" jointly with AIEI.
Two technical lectures by

S/Shri. H.L.Prabhakar

Prof. John.R.A.Mayer (Canada)

Seminar on "Welding Productivity"
Refresher Course on "Process evaluation and application" for Supervisors.

1979-80

Three technical lectures by

S/Shri. Dr. V.A.Paranjpe

R.K.Murteja

Bellangir (France)

Seminar on "Welding for Construction & Maintenance of Power Plants"
Plant visit to BARC.

1980-81

Three technical lectures by

S/Shri. V.R.Ramesh

W.G.Essars (Netherland)

Yogi Ogata (Japan)

Seminar on "Weld Surfacing for production and Maintenance"
A training course for Supervisors jointly with RCF.

Shri. H.P.Soni was Course Director.

1981-82

One technical lecture by Shri. J.Sami.
Workshop on "CO2 Welding" at IIT-Powai. Dr.U.D.Mallya was Co-Ordinator.
Three day National Welding Seminar

1982-83

Three technical lecture by

S/Shri. A.C.Lahiri

B.B.Somaiah

S.V.Nadkarni

Refresher course on "Welding Technology for welders"

Jointly with RCF. Shri. N.K.Sarkar was Course Director

National Welding Meet at Pune
Seminar on "Welding of Dissimilar Material"

1983-84

Three technical lectures by

S/Shri. John Legate (Birmingham, UK)

Frank. A. Young (USA)

Dr. H.E.D.Zuren (W.Germany)

One day conference on "Welding Distorsion and its Control" at Walchandnagar. Shri. N.K.Sarkar was Co-ordinator.
12 day Winter School jointly with IIT-Powai Dr.U.D.Mallya was Course Director and Shri. N.K.Sarkar was Co-Ordinator.
Seminar on "Economics in Welding Construction"

1984-85

Refresher Course on "Welding Technology"
Seminar on "Recent Welding Technology" jointly with Board for Research In Nuclear Sciences of Dept. of Atomic Energy. Dr.M.R.Srinivasan, Chairman Nuclear Power Board inaugurated and Dr.P.K.Iyengar, Director of BARC delivered Key-note address
Concurrent Welding Exhibition. Shri. B.Balaramamurthy, Director NFC, inaugurated.
One course on "Under water Welding". Prof. R.L.Apps from Cranfield university, UK was main speaker.

1985-86

3-day course for Welding Supervisors at Baroda. Shri. H.P.Soni was Course Director.
Two technical lecture by

S/Shri.Dr.E.G.Ramachandran

P.G.Kulkarni.

Seminar on "Advanced Welding Systems" Shri Arun Firodia, CMD of Kinetic Honda, Pune, inaugurated.

1986-87

Seven technical lectures by

S/Shri. S.L.Devi

Y.S.Trivedi

Rahul Parikh

Swami Bharat Bharathi

S.Z.Fernandes

Ali Bazi (Lincoln Electric, Australia)

Dr.G.P.Reddy

Refresher Course for Welding Engineers & Supervisors at Ahmadabad. Shri Y.P.Bhatia was Course Director and N.K.Sarkar was Co-Ordinator.
Seminar on "Quality Assurance in Metel Joining and Resurfacing" Shri D.S.Honavar was key-note speaker.
Bi-monthly News Letter launched.

1987-88

Five technical lecture by

S/Shri. Gerrard Thomas

S.D.Sawanth

R.K.Guptha

J.Nagchoudhury

S.K.Jha

Workshop on "Reistance Welding" at Pune jointly with Jaya Hind Sciaky. Shri.N.K.Sarkar was Co-ordinator.
Refresher Course for Supervisors and welders at Metallurgical Services. Shri. Sudhir Raul was Course Director.
Refresher Course at Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Shri N.K.Sarkar was Course Director.
One day welding Seminar

1988-89

Four technical lectures by

S/Shri. Dr.U.D.Mallya

J.Nagchoudhury

S.R.Jana

S.Z.Fernandes

Workshop on " Pressure Vessel Welding Code"
Industrial visit to Flash-butt welding plant at Central Railway Workshop, Kalyan
Seminar on "Quality in Coded Pressure Vessel"
Six issues of News letter published

1989-90

Ten lectures by

S/shri. J.Krishnan,

S.H.Dhamdere

M.Ismail

Y.M.Shukhla

K.Perumal

Peter Kenter (ESAB, W.Germany)

Erhard School

Micheal Haareth (Switzerland)

Bertil Pekkari (Sweden)

Course on "Effective application of codes and specifications in Fabrication". S/Shri. S.N.Roy & A.I.Panchal were Co-ordinators.
Seminar on "How defective are weld defects" This seminar was free of cost for delegates.
Six issues of news letter published.

1990-91

Three lectires by

S/Shri. P.R.Vaidya

K.E.Perumal.

P.A.Burbidge (TWI, UK)

Workshop on "Submerged arc welding". Shri U.Sankaran was Director of workshop.
Pre-Julilee celebration to mark 25th year. Shri. S.V.Nadkarni was felicitated and given a Citation and Silver Plaque.
25th National Welding Seminar hosted by the branch.
Six issues of news letter published.

1991-92

Eight lectutes by

S/Shri. A.S.Upadhya

S.G.Kulkarni

B.K.Shah

S.H.Dhamdere

R.N.Chadha

Prof. M.Naka (Japan)

Dr. Peter Pellionsz (Hungary)

Mervin Roberts (USA)

Seminar on "Advances in welding processes", jointly with IIM. Shri. G.L.Goswamy was Co-ordinator.
3 day course on "Understanding welding and fabrication aspects of Pressure Vessel and Structural Codes". S/Shri. S.N.Roy and A.I.Panchal were Co-ordinators.
Refresher Course on "Welding Technology" at Baaroda. N.K.Sarkar was Course Director.
Workshop on "MIG welding of Aluminium". M/s AOL and ESAB arranged practical demonstrations.
Seminar on "Welding of Stainless Steels and other Exotic materials" Key-note address by shri. J.K.Nanda.
Four issues of newsletter published.

1992-93

Five technical lectures by

S/Shri. Vimal Rao

S.Rajagopalan

V.M.Pavaskar

A.R.Ramachandran.

Hannu Jokela (Finland)

A flat at Vikhroli was booked for the Branch Office.
Two issues of news letter published.

1993-94

Six technical lectures by

S/Shri. Dr.P.Rodrigues

K.S.Sivaramakrishnan

V.A.D’Souza

M.Bontemps (France)

Eiji Aijawa (Japan)

A.S.Sachrai (Israel)

Workshop on " Welding of Austenitic Stainless Steel", jointly with M/s Godrej & Boyce. S/Shri S.M.Vaidya and V.M.Pavaskar were Co-ordinators.
Refresher course on" Understanding of ASME code & specifications". Dr. H.S.Srinivas was Course Director.
Industrial visit to BARC.

1994-95

Three technical lectures by

S/Shri. John Hodgson (Australia)

R.A.Walker(UK)

P.A.Burbidge(UK)

Course on "Welding practices for Pressure Vessels, Heat exchangers and Piping" for welding engineers and supervisors. Dr. H.S.Srinivas was Course Director.
Seminar on " Welding Today & Tomorrow" Shri P.M.Mehta, GM, L&T inaugurated.

1995-96

Two technical lectures by

S/Shri. Dr. R.C.Panjwani

Graig Cooper (UK)

Workshop on " Maintenance welding".
Seminar on " Productivity and Quality through continuous wire processes". Shri M.V.Joshi, Director IBR, Maharashtra was chief guest.

1996-97

Five technical lectures by

S/Shri. A.K.Sharma

K.Harda

S.Nishiyam (Japan)

T.Kurihara & A. Kumara (Japan)

Maurizio & Rossano Bocci (Canada)

Internationaal Welding Conference IWC-96 on "Joining – the Art, Science and Technology" & an International Exhibition on Welding and Cutting Equipments" 400 delegates participated.
Two issues of news letter published
1997-98
Two technical lectures by

S/shri. D.S.Honavar,

W.Liebmann & Joachim Resch (Austria)

National Welding Meet –1998 as a part of Silver Jublee Celebration of the Branch.
Three Workshops on " Welding of Stainless Steel" at

Mumbai

Pune

Baroda

Four issues of Mumbai Weldnet published
1998-99
Four technical lectures by

S/Shri. R.J.Chaudhary

N.Srinivasan

M.P.Dhanuka

T.Numora (Japan)

Seminar on "Welding productivity through Automation". 150 delegates participated.
"Meet the Industrial Corporate members" was organised for better interaction with ICM
Two Workshops on " Welding & Fabrication of Stainless Steel" was organised with Nickel Development Institute, U.K., at Thane and Pune.
2-day Refresher Course on "Welding Technology" at VJTI
Four issues of Mumbai Weldnet published

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