INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
Industry Insights is a content services blog provided by Qualified Specialists, International that brings you the latest information, opinions, tips, and current events related to manufacturing, certification, regulatory compliance, and quality management.
Tips & Tricks of the Trade
Ever wonder where people build their “tool bag” from? Find out where some of Bud Weightman’s ideals and practices have come from in the newest article from Exemplar Global, Tips & Tricks of the Trade.
Lead Auditor Training
QSI’s Lead Auditor course is geared to help you gain an understanding of how to audit a quality management system and enhance your knowledge and skills through an interactive and practical approach to auditing. QSI’s course offers a hands-on approach that enables you...
API Spec Q2 Training
API Spec. Q2 was developed to address quality management systems for service supply organizations for the upstream petroleum and natural gas industries. This training course frames the management system requirements in a managerial and business perspective, will...
API Spec Q1 Training
The landscape of our changing work environment is facilitating the need to improve the way the industry approaches the management of quality. The API Spec. Q1 Course frames the management system requirements in a managerial and business prospective and will provide...
Technical Integrity in Auditing
View this post as a presentation What is Technical Integrity? Technical integrity is the confidence that products and services meet Design and Specified Requirements, including their specified lifecycle. What are design & specified requirements? Internal Customer...
The Auditor Online
Serving as Exemplar Global's longest-term certified auditor, Bud Weightman recently sat down with Mike Richman of Exemplar Global to discuss how to spot great auditors, ways in which to have productive conversations with auditees, and the value of integrated audits....
How Can I Verify the Effectiveness of the Corrections and Corrective Action Taken for an Internal Corrective Action Report (CAR)?
The verification of effectiveness of corrections and corrective action is an important part of: Eliminating the causes of nonconformities Minimizing the likelihood of its recurrence The verification process must include all corrections to the quality management system...
Dock-to-Stock Program
Question Submitted by JD Stevens, Sr. Director of QHSE at Ulterra Drilling Technologies L.P. Q: Is there a way to implement a dock-to-stock program that complies with API Spec Q1? I am being requested to implement a dock-to-stock program for certain...
API Winter Standardization Conference Series (2021); API Monogram Program / APIQR News
In this Industry Insight series, Bud Weightman discusses his recent attendance at the American Petroleum Institute’s 2021 Winter Standardization Conference, held virtually on January 21st, 2021. Bud’s primary focus was on subcommittee updates and news from the API...
API Winter Standardization Conference Series (2021); SC20 – Subcommittee on Supply Chain Management
Suppliers who furnish product or services in accordance with SC20 documents could be considered to be Critical Suppliers as addressed by Spec Q1, Clause 5.6.1, Purchasing Control, therefore it is important to evaluate your supply chain and include appropriate language in purchasing documents.
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