Make your welding safer with the Leister Quality System

By Emma Peterson. 

Innovative technology from Leister pushes the industry forward in terms of safety and productivity. 

In Season 5, Episode 30 of Roofing Road Trips®, host Heidi J. Ellsworth talks about technology in the industry with Dave Nordentoft of Leister. Dave has worked at Leister for nine years as a manager in their roofing products. He explained his position, saying, “Core responsibilities include managing our distribution network throughout the United States from product management to education, training, that sort of thing.” But roofing has been a part of his life for far longer than that. Dave was in material distribution and field sales in the industry before Leister. This background was key to his work at Leister, considering their core competency at the company is welding thermoplastic roof membranes. 

With this specific focus, Leister supports the industry by pushing technology further. One example of this is the Leister Quality System (LQS). This system builds transparency into the field by recording welding data by allowing for monitoring and tracking of weld quality. This is important because of the fluctuations of quality in the field. Dave explained, “We first really rolled this out into our geosynthetic membrane category. Most of them are all below grade or in tunnels for securing waste containment for say landfills or aquaculture or fracking applications and mining and that sort of thing.” 

One way it does this is through the monitored welding assistant. With the LQS, the user sets the parameters of heat and other factors to a safe range. This is a part of the machine that monitors each time the weld is initiated. Dave elaborated, “If there's anything that happens, whether it be electronic or mechanical, that takes one of those key welding parameters outside of that established limit range that you would've put in the machine, then you're going to get an alarm.” The immediate response keeps users safe and also alerts them to possible compromises in their welding, keeping from accidentally having hundreds or thousands of feet of compromised welding to redo later.  

Read the transcript or Listen to the full episode to learn more about LQS and how it works to boost user productivity.