FPC & Welding Quality Manual¶

IDM-FPC-WQM-001 · Revision 4 · DRAFT for RWC review and acceptance

The spine of the welding management system. The BS EN ISO 3834-2 core is built once; the BS EN 1090 and BS EN 15085 layers bolt onto it. Nothing is duplicated across the three standards.

Controlled master

The controlled master is the file on the IDM server in the welding management system folder structure. Download it here; the text below is a convenience rendering of the same document. Where the two differ, the server file governs.

Not issued

Rev 4 is a draft. Four items remain open in the front matter and the RWC has not accepted it.

Contents¶

Front matter¶

IDM Engineering (Chester) Ltd

Factory Production Control & Welding Quality Manual

Covering:

BS EN 1090-1 / -2 — Factory Production Control & execution of steel structures

BS EN ISO 3834-2 — Comprehensive quality requirements for fusion welding

BS EN 15085-2 — Welding of railway vehicles and components (CL2)

Document ref: IDM-FPC-WQM-001 | Revision 4 — DRAFT for RWC review and acceptance | 21/08/2026

Revision history

Rev	Description	Issued by	Accepted by	Date
0	First issued (ISO 3834-2 welding manual)	J. P. Bailey	P. Dutton	03/03/2021
1	Refresh & extension to combined FPC / 3834-2 / 15085-2 manual — DRAFT	CRGI Solutions Ltd	Pending	17/07/2026
2	Welding coordination allocation revised (Annex A); coordination cadence added (Section 16); open decisions re-flagged as TBC — DRAFT	CRGI Solutions Ltd	Pending	21/08/2026
3	Execution Class EXC2 and certification body (TWI) confirmed; General Manager and internal Welding Coordinator roles adopted; coordinator independence rule added (Section 7) — DRAFT	CRGI Solutions Ltd	Pending	21/08/2026
4	Legal entity name and CL2 scope confirmed; RWC competence evidence requested; materials scope gap referred to RWC — DRAFT	CRGI Solutions Ltd	Pending	21/08/2026

DRAFT — items to confirm before issue

Execution Class: EXC2, confirmed by IDM. The determination record setting out the consequence class, service category and production category relied upon is to be completed and held as a controlled record — the certification body will ask on what basis EXC2 was arrived at.
EN 15085-2 certification level: CL2, confirmed by IDM as applying across the whole rail product range. CL2 is also imposed in writing by the customer on Alstom drawing 24308 (Class 22X), which specifies CP C2 and weld inspection class CT 3. Any enquiry indicating a weld performance class above the range covered by CL2 is referred to the RWC before quotation.
Responsible Welding Coordinator: external appointment (Axis NDT). IWE/EWE competence evidence has been requested from the RWC and is awaited; on receipt it is verified against BS EN ISO 14731 at the level required for CL2 across all materials in scope, and held as a controlled record. A deputy or cover arrangement remains to be nominated. [TBC]
Material scope: carbon steel primary; stainless steel secondary (existing evidence); aluminium deferred. The mild-steel-to-cast-iron joint using pure nickel filler on the Alstom 24308 job falls outside this scope and outside every current WPS, WPQR and welder qualification. The RWC is resolving it, by procedure and welder qualification or by formal exclusion. This manual is not issued until the outcome is recorded here and the scope in Section 1 updated to match. [With RWC]
Certification body: TWI Certification, appointed for all three standards as a single coordinated programme. The TÜV NORD intake form held in the evidence pack is superseded and withdrawn from use. Confirm with TWI at application that the existing third-party witnessed WPQRs (TÜV UK references 22477 and 24198, and TWI reference 21033) are accepted without re-qualification, and obtain that acceptance in writing. [Action]
Legal entity name: confirmed as IDM Engineering (Chester) Ltd. Every document in the welding management system, and the certification application, is to carry this name. Documents still showing “IDM Engineering Ltd” — including the Welder-ID roster — are to be corrected at next revision. [Action]
Welding Coordinator (internal): proposed as N. Collins-Hopkins. Three conditions apply before the appointment is recorded — (a) competence for the coordination tasks in Annex A assessed and recorded against BS EN ISO 14731 by the RWC, since a welder qualification is not a coordination competence; (b) the independence rule in Section 7 applied, as the post holder is a production welder; (c) the post holder’s own welder qualification and continuity position resolved by the RWC. [TBC]
Notified / approved body involvement and record retention periods are to be verified against the current text of BS EN 1090-1 and BS EN 15085-5 before issue. This draft does not assert clause content. [TBC]

Governance documents¶

The manual states the requirement; these records carry the determinations, appointments and authority behind it. Each is a controlled record in its own right.

Ref	Record	What it settles
WMS-A-02	Scope of Certification Statement	What is being certified, to which standards, for which products
WMS-A-03-04	Welding Organisation and Responsibility	Who holds which role, and the reporting lines between them
WMS-A-05	RWC Appointment and Delegation	The appointment of the Responsible Welding Coordinator and the tasks delegated to it
WMS-A-06	RWC Service Agreement	The contractual basis for the external appointment — authority, availability and escalation
WMS-A-08	Welding System Internal Audit Checklist	How the welding system is audited against the three standards
WMS-A-09	Management Review — Welding Input	What welding brings to management review, and how often
WMS-A-13	Delegation of IDM Approval Authority	Which approvals IDM has delegated, and which are reserved to the RWC
WMS-F-01	Execution Class Determination Record	How the BS EN 1090 Execution Class was arrived at
WMS-G-01	Certification Level Determination Record	How the BS EN 15085-2 Certification Level was arrived at

Controlled copy. The controlled master of every document in this system is the file held on the IDM server in the welding management system folder structure. This portal is a controlled view of it. Where the two differ, the server file governs.