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Locksmith is the colloquial term for small - or medium-sized companies that perform metal work.
Responsibilities of a Locksmith
The locksmith profession and the professional assigned Companies and divisions were divided according to area of responsibility in various occupations in the trades (up to 1989) and in industry (up to 1987).
Locksmith professional in crafts
The operations of the craft, especially in the construction industry, with their often small-scale manufacturing requirements are commonly what is today understood nor under a locksmith. The divisions, divided by the professional groups were:
- Locksmith: steel components in the construction industry, for example, handrails, walkways, smaller stairs, gates, doors
- Blacksmith and locksmith: Metallgestaltung mostly in construction, for example, artfully designed grilles, fences, gates
- Automotive locksmith: general activity in commercial vehicle construction, maintenance and repair of vehicles, manufacture of vehicle bodies
The activities of the Locksmith and metal designer can be difficult to distinguish from each other. Therefore, the division of locksmith work has been combined with the ironwork for metal according to DIN 18360 in the reorganization of the craft.
Locksmith professional in the industry
The locksmith profession, mostly as its own manufacturing and assembly department, was also in the industry of importance. In the industry, you also differed to 1987 the
- Fitter: Maintenance, repair and maintenance of machinery and plant components of a manufacturing or processing operation
- Machinist: construction, maintenance, repair and overhaul of machinery and plant components in mechanical engineering
- Optical Engineer: Production and assembly of steel structures, steel stairs, steel bridges and similar load-bearing structures, but often also in process equipment, for example in manufacturing of pressure vessels, in collaboration with pipe fitters and conditioning mechanics
- Sheet Metal: Sheet metal processing in the broadest sense, forming metal sheets with, for example, press brakes, cutting of metal sheets with scissors and punches, shears and a cutting machine or thermal separation processes such as flame cutting, manufacture of complex sheet metal structures of all kinds due to folding, beading and beading.
- Pipefitter: Colloquially the steel pipe fitters was often referred to as a pipe fitter. The pipe fitters is still existent as a training professional in the industry and especially in civil engineering today. The pipe fitters manufactures and assembles penstocks. After Iso. Focus of the Rohschlossers is the property of reading drawings. In addition, pipe Schloser also need all welding processes like oxyacetylene welding with gas and oxygen dominate, but also a variety of arc welding processes, such as TIG ( heat Inert Gas ) MIG ( metal inert gas).
Summary and current job titles
The craft of the locksmith for metal fabricators specializing in construction engineering, automotive locksmith for metal fabricators specializing in commercial vehicle and the blacksmith / locksmith for metal fabricators specializing in metal design was. In the industry, power and industrial locksmith was an industrial mechanic, the locksmith, and the steelworkers construction mechanic.