The standard is designed for use across the oil and gas, automotive, nuclear, energy, aerospace, semiconductor and manufacturing sectors. It is particularly useful for welding, brazing or soldering personnel, quality managers and assessors, and engineers.
The standard provides a clear set of criteria that can act as a common language for discussion, design, execution, and inspection across engineering sectors. It supplies a means of comparing weld imperfections and defects irrespective of the detection technique used.