Whip;
You say "MY DILEMMA IS ITS ALL IN A BIG PILE LAYING FLIPPED OVER IT'S SELF ONE WAY THEN THE OTHER,WITH FIELD WELDS TO BE MADE AND LONG LENGTHS BY ISO IT IS IN PIECES SO BEHIND AS I AM I'M OUT THERE WITH MY ISO'S AND A TAPE MEASURE TRYING TO PUT WELD #'S ON EACH FIT.THERE REPLY IS SIGN EACH FIT THEN COME GET IT OFF OUR ISO THAT WE'VE GOT HIGHLIGHTED AND THEN DO YOUR INSPECTION FORMS."
While you may, and SHOULD verify the performance qualifications of EACH welder AND the WPS that was used for the fabrication, it sounds to me like your employer has just inconvenienced you rather than anything more sinister. Do your inspections thoroughly, if it takes more time because the spools are piled in a mumble jumble fashion, well that's not your fault...
Just make sure you take time to verify all of the welders, weld procedures and filler metals used were appropriate... By the way, how DO you intend to verify which filler metals were used???
I know exactly where you're coming from. !st what I would do is ask the forman to have someone assist you in identifying each peice.....preferably someone very familiar with it that can point out to you what piece is what, which way the weld #'s should run and so on. Explain that you try to do your job as effeciently and quickly as possible so that inspection do not hold up production, but that with what they are doing, and if no one can assist you in identification, it will take you 3 times longer than it should.
In my shop, everything is "as-built", so when piping goes on a unit I have to catch the pipe before it is taken off to get proper identification on it. There are many times when I have been unable to identify line #'s and weld #'s because the piping has been removed and it's out in a pile in the yard. First thing I do is grab the forman and take him out into the yard with me and start pointing at spool pieces and say "what does that go to?"
I try to stay on top of my game, but they don't wait for me (very strong resisitance against QC). But if there's piles of pipe in the yard and no one will help me identify it, I go to the plant manager and tell him it isn't gettin RT'd untill it's identified, and I can't identify it by myself. No RT means no hydro, no hydro means no going back on unit, no pipe on unit means unit cant run, unit can't run means customeer can't get unit on time = lost customer!!!
They like to play dirty sometimes and I have no problem with that, but the fact is, the longer they play in the dirt, the longer the unit sits here until inspections are completed.