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Congratulations William H. Brafford, 2011
Brafford, an American Welding Society (AWS) member for thirty-two years, has been very active with C1 Committee on Resistance Welding, D8 Committee on Automotive Welding, and D8D AWS/SAE Subcommittee on Automotive Resistance Spot Welding. He held the office of chairman of C1 and vice chair of C1 and D8. These committees have published AWS C1.5, Specification for the Qualification of Resistance Welding Technicians, AWS C1.4, Specification for Resistance Welding of Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels, D8.6, Specification for Automotive Resistance Spot Welding Electrodes, and C1.1, Recommended Practices for Resistance Welding. Since 2003, he has participated on the AWS US TAG for ISO/TC44/SC 06. He received his degree in metallurgical engineering at the University of Cincinnati and MBA from Butler University. He worked for P. R. Mallory Company as a project engineer, and in 1974 became engineering manager for its Metallurgical division (currently CMW, Inc.), involved with new products and joining processes. When he left CMW in 2002, he was vice president of sales and engineering. In 1985, Brafford joined the Resistance Welding Manufacturing Alliance (RWMA) where he served on its board of directors 1991–2010, as president from 1999 to 2001, and developed the RWMA material identification system. Since 1987, he has been an instructor at the Emmet A. Craig resistance welding school, and the group leader for the Introduction to Resistance Welding, training video used at the school. He was a major contributor for Resistance Welding Manual, 4th edition, Bulletins 14, 16, and 34.
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William H. Brafford currently is vice president of sales at Tuffaloy Products, Inc., a supplier of electrodes, controls, cylinders, and other components used in resistance welding operations.