InPulse Logic
InPulse Logic
Laser OS
Stage 4 Operator

50-Job Graduation Portfolio

The portfolio is the credential. Anyone who can show 50 jobs at this level — with photos, parameters, and inspection notes — has earned Stage 4 designation regardless of what certifications they hold.

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Jobs 1–20

Foundation

The first 20 jobs every operator should weld and document.

  1. 01.Lap joint, mild steel 1.5×1.5 mm, 200 mm seam
  2. 02.Lap joint, mild steel 1.5×3 mm, 200 mm seam
  3. 03.Lap joint, mild steel 3×3 mm, 300 mm seam
  4. 04.Butt joint with backing, mild steel 3 mm, 200 mm
  5. 05.Butt joint with backing, mild steel 6 mm, 200 mm
  6. 06.Fillet T-joint, mild steel 3 mm vertical to 6 mm horizontal, both sides, 300 mm
  7. 07.Edge weld, mild steel 1.5 mm, 200 mm
  8. 08.Lap joint, stainless 304 1.5×1.5 mm, with backing gas, 200 mm
  9. 09.Fillet T-joint stainless 304, 3×3 mm, 200 mm
  10. 10.Lap joint, aluminum 5052 1.5×1.5 mm, 200 mm
  11. 11.Lap joint, aluminum 6061 1.5×1.5 mm, with 4043 filler wire, 200 mm
  12. 12.Spot weld series, stainless 0.5×0.5 mm, 50 spots
  13. 13.Repair weld — fix porosity defect from job 1 by grinding and re-welding
  14. 14.Vertical-up fillet, mild steel 3×3 mm, 200 mm
  15. 15.Vertical-down fillet, mild steel 3×3 mm, 200 mm
  16. 16.Overhead lap, mild steel 1.5×1.5 mm, 100 mm
  17. 17.Multi-pass fillet, mild steel 6×12 mm, three passes, 300 mm
  18. 18.Plug weld series, mild steel 3×3 mm, 10 plugs
  19. 19.Continuous corner weld, sheet metal box, 4 corners × 100 mm
  20. 20.Round-tube to flat-plate fillet, full circumference, mild steel
Jobs 21–35

Application

Real-world application jobs across body, food-grade, marine, and electronic substrates.

  1. 21.Auto body panel repair (real or test), galvanized steel
  2. 22.Stainless food-grade enclosure corner, sanitary weld
  3. 23.Aluminum boat hull patch, 5052, with passing pressure test
  4. 24.Cast iron repair — preheat required, nickel filler
  5. 25.Mild steel exhaust component, 1.5 mm tube to flange
  6. 26.Stainless handrail joint, 1.5" tube to elbow, three positions
  7. 27.Aluminum gusset to extrusion, 6061, structural fillet
  8. 28.Brass decorative joint, autogenous, no porosity
  9. 29.Tool steel knife bolster to blade, dissimilar joint with documented procedure
  10. 30.Copper-to-brass joint (specialty: green/blue laser or pulsed fiber)
  11. 31.Battery tab to nickel terminal, 0.2 to 0.5 mm, controlled energy
  12. 32.Heat exchanger tube-to-tubesheet, stainless, 50 joints
  13. 33.Stainless pressure vessel longitudinal seam, 6 mm, with X-ray
  14. 34.Galvanized structural square tube to plate, fillet, with proper venting
  15. 35.Mixed-material assembly: aluminum bracket to steel frame, documented procedure
Jobs 36–50

Mastery

Stage 4 mastery jobs — WPS development, NDE coordination, customer-accepted production.

  1. 36.Develop a WPS for a job you haven't done before — qualified to AWS D1.1 or equivalent
  2. 37.Train a Stage 1 operator through their first 50 lap joints
  3. 38.Diagnose and repair another operator's failed weld (root-cause analysis required)
  4. 39.Aluminum 6061 structural fillet that passes a destructive bend test
  5. 40.Stainless 316L sanitary weld passing borescope inspection
  6. 41.Multi-position pipe weld, single-V groove, 6" pipe, all-position, with passing radiograph
  7. 42.Hot-cracking-prone alloy weld (6063 or A356) with no cracks at 10× magnification
  8. 43.Dissimilar joint with engineering justification — material selection, IMC analysis, life prediction
  9. 44.Production run, 200 parts, with documented reject rate and process improvements
  10. 45.Custom fixture design and qualification for a recurring job
  11. 46.Hybrid joining process (laser + adhesive, laser + mechanical) for specific application
  12. 47.Procedure development for a new alloy — cold start to qualified WPS
  13. 48.NDE coordination — work with a third-party inspector through passing radiograph or UT
  14. 49.Repair welding on heat-treated structural steel without compromising heat treatment
  15. 50.A weld that goes into a customer's product, billed and accepted, with no rework

Documentation = photos before/during/after, parameters used, post-weld inspection notes. Operators logged in to InPulse Logic can track these jobs in their own progression log.