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Unfortunately, due to the corona virus pandemic we were prevented from undertaken following courses. Now we
hope for better times. But this is only half the truth, too few responses from industry to a website announcement
means that scheduling with a fixed date (from SLV) is not economically viable. So, the SLV have revised its position
and will only offer the course without a fixed date, until there are sufficient interested parties. Having collected a
number of them, SLV will then make an arrangement of dates to bring all together. But to make this into a success
story, wider publicity and advertising is necessary – not only through SLV Halle.
Coming to group (C), an equivalent guideline is still in preparation. Content and procedure are defined (as quoted
above) as well as examination questions, now the certification body is asked to finish the approval. But the aspects
for its implementation will be the same as for DVS 1190.
5 Prospects and task setting
As everybody within the EB community knows, this technology has worldwide acceptance over many years, but it
survives through the dedicated activity of a limited group of insiders. However most the active groups do not promote
the technology outwardly, but nearly always faced inwardly towards their own groups. Although we have tried for
many years to get greater publicity for EB technologies, we have recognised that a way to achieve this could be
through better education. Both lectures for students and advanced training for engineers will then enable them to use
EB within their own fields, and to gain real advantages. These new “experts” will then be able to spread and share
their experience and widen so the greater public awareness.
Therefore, maximum success of the education and training programs is the primary goal, and as much as possible
experts should be engaged as lecturers, in any institution. It is not the question of defining a course’s content – this
already exists within the DVS guidelines. Of course, an experienced guest instructor can help to “find one’s feet”.
This support is addressed especially to other SLV besides Halle.
Last but not least, every one of us should promote the training courses and point out to his peers, up to and including
industry management, the announcements on SLV’s website.
6 What else?
Undoubtedly, the content of the lectures must be updated in line with current technological and research developments.
At least within DVS this will be assured by the scheduled review of all documents.
Even though we have discussed this topic based on a German version of education program, it should also be possible
to establish a comparable one in other languages and countries – compare e. g. [3].
Literature
[1] H. Schultz: Elektronenstrahlschweißen – Grundlagen, Maschinen, Anwendungen, DVS Media GmbH,
2017
[2] K.-R. Schulze: Elektronenstrahltechnologien, Band 1 Wissen kompakt, DVS Media GmbH, 2011
[3] K.-R. Schulze: Electron Beam Technologies, Vol. 1e Wissen kompakt, DVS Media GmbH, 2012
[4] Richtlinie DVS 1190, DVS-Lehrgang Fachkraft Elektronenstrahlschweißen, 2019
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