Explore How These Changes May Impact Your Organization

To address potential risks that have been introduced, we’ll cover:

• How changes were meant to incorporate ISO 9001:2015 into Spec Q1, but some key concepts are missing.
• The broader scope that now applies to other business types such as: Engineering/design, physical product realization activity providers (e.g., welding, heat treating, coating/plating, machining, inspection, testing, servicing), physical product-related activity providers (e.g., distribution, logistics, software development).
• The complexity of changes: Wording changed from “manufacturing”-focused specification to “product”-focused specification resonate throughout the specification.
• How prolific the changes are: Some are editorial, some provide clarity, and others are significant and may require an organization to make structural changes to its quality management system.

Learn & Understand

• Why dropping your quality manual may not be a good idea.
• What the term “identified risk” means and the impact it will have upon your supply chain evaluations.
• The new uses of the word “criticality” (i.e., other than shown in Section 5.5 Purchasing).
• What Q1, 9^th Edition criteria weren’t included in the 10^th Edition.
• The significant changes that have occurred in multiple sections.
• How to integrate key concepts of the applicable information into your quality management system.

Leverage Our Expertise

• QSI is a technology company specializing in Mitigating Systemic Risk^TM. In addition to providing solutions, we develop and license quality management software and documentation internationally.
• QSI President Bud Weightman has worked as an API auditor since the inception of API Spec Q1, 1^st Edition in 1986.
• QSI was founded in 1989 and is a practitioner organization that has nearly 35 years of experience on the front lines in the oil and gas industry with the American Petroleum Institute’s Monogram Program and API Quality Registrar.
• QSI sees things from a different perspective: We’re involved in the API standards development process and participate on the Quality and Supply Chain Management Subcommittees (since 1990); we develop and implement quality management and integrated management systems; we consult, train, audit internationally; and we have worked in more than 30 countries.

Prepare for the Course

We recommend the following for the course:

• An electronic copy of API Spec Q1, 10th Edition, Quality Management System Requirements for Organizations Providing Products for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry
• API Spec Q1, Errata 1
• Your laptop or similar electronic device so you can review course materials and take notes.

The course will be held in an open discussion format. Course participation is an important element of this training; you will not be graded on class participation, but doing so helps in you and other attendees get the most out of the course (where you may have insight, others may not, and vice versa). This training course is designed to be interactive and includes class exercises, case studies, and discussions. Some of the teaching methods may require you to work in groups, allowing you to analyze the topic at hand from different perspectives.

Integrity & Notice of Rights

The learning materials developed for this class are specifically created to enhance your understanding and applicability of the materials presented.  These learning materials are created by QSI and are protected by copyright.  As such, these materials are only to be used for your own education. It is illegal to copy these materials, distribute copies of these materials, and/or to prepare derivative works based on these materials without the expressed, written consent of QSI.