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2021-12-17
ASSETs+ Workshop on Strategy to develop Human Resources (HR) in the Defence sector
ASSETs+ Workshop on Strategy to develop Human Resources (HR) in the Defence sector was conducted yesterday (December 16th, 2021), gathering more than 60 participants, including representatives from DG DEFIS and Cedefop. The project, its scope and purposes were presented to all attendees, who were ...
2021-12-14
We recently received the sad news that Hans van den Brug passed away
We recently received the sad news that Hans van den Brug passed away on the 8th December. Besides being director of the Netherlands Institute for Welding, Hans was also President of the EWF from 1996 to 1999. As such he was the Chairman of the bilateral EWF/IIW Commission and thus the ...
2021-11-22
EWF General Assembly November 2021
Another successful online EWF General Assembly took place on 16th November with more than 50 participants. Members kept discussing strategic matters related to the required transformation to digital in the implementation of EWF Qualifications and Certifications Systems.The Joining and Additive ...
2021-11-22
2020 Best Welding Coordinator
During the 57th EWF General Assembly meeting we awarded the EWF Award for Best Welding Coordinator to Mr. Florian Mayer. EWF’s has been awarding a prize for the most outstanding welding coordinator among candidates from its member countries every year since 2009. We congratulate Mr. Florian Mayer ...
2021-11-18
Passing of the IIW President, Mr David Landon
Dear Members of the EWF / IIW community, it is with the deepest sadness that we are announcing the passing of the IIW President, David Landon. His death happened unexpectedly while in performance of his duties. During his Presidency at IIW he faced difficult times due to the changes in the ...
2021-10-21
Future Skills for Europe’s Aerospace and Defence Industry
EWF attended and actively contributed for the “Future Skills for Europe’s Aerospace and Defence Industry” Conference, organized by Rzeszow University of Technology (in Poland), an important two-days event in which representatives from Aerospace and Defence Industry and from Education and RTD are ...
2021-10-11
Another Giant Leap for AM - Did anyone notice how many AM standards got approved during the pandemic?
Recently additivemanufacturing.media released an article on how the pandemic helped accelerate the development of standards in Additive Manufacturing “Another Giant Leap for AM — New Standards”, where it mentions EWF’s activity in the establishment of international qualifications for AM operators ...
2021-08-19
74th IIW Annual Assembly and International Conference
On the 16th of July, 2021, EWF presented the topic on “Implementation of the First Additive Manufacturing Qualification System” at the 74th IIW Annual Assembly and International Conference, on an online session that gathered more than 40 participants from around the world!This was a great ...
2021-08-19
AMable Experiments
AMable is sharing experiments and success stories for their various partnerships. You can check all of them on the youtube page. AMable provides support to SMEs and mid-caps for their individual uptake of additive manufacturing. Across all technologies from plastics through polymers to metals, ...
2021-08-19
SAM PODCAST #2: 7/30/2021
SAM PODCAST #2: Additive Manufacturing and Industry 4.0:In this podcast Mr. Jason Jones from Hybrid Manufacturing explained the advantages of Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing in the context of Industry 4.0. The talk was guided by Ruaridh Mitchinson from MTC.You can listen to this episode and ...
