IS YOUR DOCUMENTATION AUDIT READY?
Score your welding documentation against the ALCOA+ principles auditors actually check, free and instant.
What this checks, and why it matters
Regulators judge whether your data can be trusted using a set of ten principles known as ALCOA+: Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original, Accurate, Complete, Consistent, Enduring, Available, and Traceable. The eight questions below are built directly on those principles, the same ground an inspector actually covers, not a generic best-practice checklist.
Answer honestly. It takes about two minutes, the result appears instantly, and nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
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Audit Readiness Score
How each answer scored
What this could cost you
This is a rough estimate based on your score above, not a measured number. The real cost depends a lot on your industry and how your documentation is organised today.
Picture an average project with 2,000 weld points. In pharma and offshore work, each weld point usually needs around five supporting documents, things like the WPS reference, the welder's qualification, heat and lot traceability, and an inspection report. That adds up to roughly 10,000 documents for a project this size.
Based on how you answered the questions above, about 0% of those documents, or 0 in total, would likely have some kind of gap an auditor could catch. Finding each one, checking it against the right records, and fixing it usually takes around 15 minutes.
That number only covers the time spent tracking down and fixing paperwork. It does not include a delayed project, penalties written into the contract, or the harder to measure cost of losing your customer's trust after a failed audit, and that part is usually where the real damage is.
How SOCWeld addresses this
Attributable and contemporaneous by default
Every action in SOCWeld is logged with timestamp, user, and purpose the moment it happens, not reconstructed afterwards. Nothing is deleted.
Traceability without manual cross-checking
Material and welding certificates are automatically linked and validated against project requirements before any welding is performed, in both directions.
Retrieval in seconds, not days
Every weld point, certificate, and inspection lives in one digital record. A press of a button produces the full report, ready for an auditor.
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