API Spec Q1

API Spec Q1, 8th Edition

API Spec Q1 and Related Product Specifications

API Spec Q1 is the American Petroleum Institute's Specification for Quality Programs for the Petroleum & Natural Gas Industry. Organizations seeking approval to use the API Monogram mark on their products must comply with the API Spec. Q1 and the applicable API product specification requirements. Companies that either manufacture products to API specifications, or provide industry services not covered by an API standard, can apply for API Spec Q1 Registration. The ISO sector-specific quality management standard dedicated to the oil and natural gas industry is ISO/TS 29001. This standard is based on ISO 9001 but includes supplemental requirements specific to the industry. API also offers a dual certification with the ISO 9001 Standard and ISO TS 29001.

ISO 9001: 2008 & ISO / TS 29001: 2007 – the relationship

ISO / TS 29001:2007 defines the quality management system for product and service supply organizations for the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries.
Boxed text is original ISO 9001:2008 text unaltered and in its entirety. The petroleum, petrochemical, and natural gas industry sector-specific supplemental requirements are outside the boxes.

The training program on API Specification Q1, Specification for Quality Programs for the Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas Industry, the course provides an informative look on the requirements, interpretations, and practical applications of the quality management principles used throughout the oil and natural gas industry.

The course coverage and practical knowledge sharing experience makes this program unique and makes it a must to attend program.

Our training on API Spec Q1 is designed to give a thorough understanding of the oil and natural gas industry's Quality Management System requirements. Major topics are tackled in a concise and comprehensive setting, including lively classroom discussions about the major components of API Spec Q1.

The base of this program lies with the briefer session on ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System Requirements; compares and contrasts ISO 9001:2008 to API Spec Q1, providing a unique insight into the application of both thse international standards.

The API Spec Q1 is the backbone for the API Monogram Program.

The global oil and natural gas industry relies on equipment and products with the API Monogram to get the job done right. The API Monogram shows the world that a manufacturer is dedicated to the highest quality standards because the API Monogram Program is built around real-world standards. The key to getting the most from the API Monogram Program is to understand the nuances of its main quality system element, API Spec Q1.

The API is a national trade association headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA, serving all branches of petroleum, drilling, and production industry. The API has established a standardization program to facilitate the availability of safe and interchangeable equipment and materials used in these industries.

The API Monogram Program offers licensees the opportunity to obtain certification and the use of the API Monogram Trademark which signifies a certain supplier to the petroleum industry as a company recognized by API for its capability to provide quality product or service. In order to be certified, the API requires compliance to the API Specification Q1 for Quality Programs and the applicable API Product Specification,( i.e. Specification 5L for Line Pipe, Specification 6A for Valves and Wellhead Equipment, Specification 6D for Pipeline Valves etc.,)

Reva Phoenix has extensive experience in developing these Quality Programs with world-wide customers and can provide interpretation of the standards and practical considerations for effective implementation at the Gemba.

API Spec Q1 – Implementers Course

Course briefer:

• Understand what is takes to implement or upgrade to a Spec Q1 / ISO 9001 program at a company in the and Natural Gas Industry
• Comprehend the basics to plan and conduct an audit and focus on practical planning, reporting and follow-up strategies based on Q1 supplemental requirements
• Examine the attributes of a good auditor and focus on what is expected from an auditor based on international auditing guidelines
• Learn: how to recognize and write nonconformity statements
• Understand correction, corrective action and preventive action and the means to effective documentation
• Prioritize critical follow-up action items based on the PDCA cycle

Course Outline:

• Implementation of API Spec Q1 requirements; ISO / TS 29001
• Quality concepts and why internal QMS audits are important
• Types of audits; an insight into ISO 9011
• Understanding the family of ISO standards
• Spec Q1 / ISO 9001 quality system requirements
• Planning the audit, checklist development
• Auditing techniques
• Ways to ensure effective communications during the audit
• Auditor qualification
• Audit investigations
• Conducting the audit
• Opening and closing meet during audits
• Role of: Lead, Auditor, Technical Specialist, Auditee, Guide, Consultants
• Data collection and audit reporting – closing the PDCA loop

Reva phoenix provides classroom trainings coupled with industry specific workshops to cater to the demands of manufacturing and service industries. Being Master Trainers, core areas of training include QMS, EMS, OHSAS, IMS, TPM, TQM, Lean and Six Sigma. Over the years, we have over 50 training modules, prepared as an outcome of extensive documentary research, an in-depth study of Best in Class industrial practices and learning’s from implementation makes Reva phoenix course materials a perfect combination of knowledge and skill. With a firm belief in implementation and bottom line improvements, Reva phoenix also provides hand holding and consultation services to continue with the learning’s and get them implemented into the roots of the organization.

Training Program offers:

We also custom make Training Modules to suit Client requirements.

ISO 9001: 2008 - Quality Management Systems

• ISO 9001: 2008 - Starters Course & Transition Workshop
• ISO 9001: 2008 - Implementers Workshop
• ISO 9001: 2008 - Internal Auditors Course

ISO/TS 16949: 2002 - Automotive Production & service part organizations

• ISO/TS 16949: 2002 - Starters Course
• ISO/TS 16949: 2002 - Implementers Workshop
• ISO/TS 16949: 2002 - Internal Auditors Course
• ISO/TS 16949: 2002 - Customer Specific Requirements
• ISO/TS 16949: 2002 - Process Approach

Automotive Core Tools (ACT)

• Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) - Overview
• APQP - Starters Course
• APQP - Implementers Workshop
• APQP - Phase II - DFMEA & DVP& R
• APQP - Phase III - PFC, PFMEA & Control Planning
• APQP - Workshop for Automobile Industries

Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) - Overview

• PPAP - Starters Course
• PPAP - Implementers Course
• PPAP - Implementation inline with 4th Edition

Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Measurement System Analysis (MSA)

Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA)

• Machine (MFMEA)
• Product Design (DFMEA)
• Process Design (PFMEA)
• Environment (EFMEA)
• Occupational Health & Safety FMEA (OH&S FMEA)

Visual Factory
Benchmarking
Poka yoke / Error Proofing

ISO 14001: 2004 - Environmental Management Systems

• ISO 14001: 2004 - Starters Course
• ISO 14001: 2004 - Implementers Workshop
• ISO 14001: 2004 - Internal Auditors Course

ISO 18001: 2007 - Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems

• OHSAS 18001: 2007 - Starters Course
• OHSAS 18001: 2007 - Implementers Workshop
• OHSAS 18001: 2007 - Internal Auditors Course

ISO 9001: 2000, ISO 14001: 2002, ISO 18001: 2007 - Integrated Management Systems

• IMS - Starters Course
• IMS - Implementers Workshop
• IMS - Internal Auditors Course

Quality Management Systems - Tool kits

• Basic 7 QC Problem Solving Tools
• New 7 QC Management Tools
• QC 7 Step - Japanese Problem Solving Methodology
• QC Story & QC Circles
• Global 8 Discipline Problem Solving Methodology
• PDCA for Continual Improvement
• Cost of Quality
• Kaizen for Continual Improvement

Total Quality Management (TQM)

• Total Quality Management - A Briefer
• Total Quality Management for Middle Management
• Total Quality Management for Top Management
• Hoshin Kanri - Policy Deployment
• Exactness, Visualization & Daily Work Management
• Understanding Deming Principles
• 5S for Shop Floor Excellence
• Management for Objectives - A TQM Approach
• Roadmap to Deming Application Prize

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

• Total Productive Maintenance - A Briefer
• Total Productive Maintenance for Middle Management
• Total Productive Maintenance for Top Management
• Implementing Pillars of Total Productive Maintenance
• Exactness, Visualization & Daily Work Management
• Shop floor Excellence through TPM

Lean Manufacturing

• Lean Manufacturing - A Briefer
• Lean Manufacturing for Middle Management
• Lean Manufacturing for Top Management
• Lean Manufacturing - Concept of cellular manufacturing
• Lean Manufacturing - Creating Value by VSM
• Lean Manufacturing - Implementing Poka Yoke
• Lean Manufacturing - Implementers Workshop

Six Sigma

• Six Sigma - A Briefer
• Six Sigma - For Middle Management
• Six Sigma - For Top Management
• Six Sigma - Implementers Workshop
• Six Sigma - Green Belt Training
• Six Sigma - Black Belt Training

Roadmap for Excellence to Quality

• Roadmap for Excellence through 5S implementation
• Roadmap for Excellence through Process approach
• Roadmap for Excellence through IMS
• Roadmap for Excellence through TQM
• Roadmap for Excellence through TPM
• Roadmap for Excellence through Lean
• Roadmap for Excellence through Six Sigma
• Roadmap for Excellence through TRIZ

Reva phoenix - Robustness Workshops

• Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
• Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• Design Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (DFMEA)
• Process Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (PFMEA)
• Value Engineering
• Dynamic Control Planning (DCP)
• Design Review (DR)
• Global 8D Problem Solving Approach
• Visual Factory