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API RP 683 Document Information:
Title
Quality Improvement Manual for Mechanical Equipment in Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industries
American Petroleum Institute
Publication Date:
Jan 1, 1993
Scope:
This recommended practice provides guidelines for improving the
quality of mechanical equipment. It
is intended to mutually benefit users, contractors, and suppliers and
facilitate improved
relationships between them by promoting trust, teamwork, and
communication. It is not intended to
determine certification to or compliance with a particular quality
system specification.
A three-part approach for improving the quality of mechanical
equipment is described in this
recommended practice, consisting of (a) the traditional methods used
to help assure quality; (b)
techniques that can be used to identify those suppliers who have
quality systems so effective that
intense user involvement is unnecessary: and (c) suggestions on how
users, contractors, and
suppliers can work together to improve quality.
Section 2 describes methods by which users prequalify suppliers,
prepare comprehensive
specifications, conduct communication meetings, audit designs,
institute manufacturing quality
surveillance, sponsor intensive factory testing, and conduct equipment
inspections at the site
prior to start-up.
Section 3 (along with Appendix A) contains guidelines for evaluating
the type of quality system and
effectiveness of the quality system used by a supplier. Emphasis is
placed on the commitment of
management to the quality system, the structure of the system,
relationships with subsuppliers,
training, evidence of continuous quality improvement throughout the
organization, and the
supplier's performance on recent projects.
Section 4 addresses ways that users, contractors, and suppliers can
all work, together to improve
their quality systems. It includes such topics as uniformity and joint
development of equipment
requirements, risk sharing, communication, training, and constructive
feedback. Users are
encouraged to reduce the use of lengthy supplemental specifications
and rely more on API standards
and data sheets.
This recommended practice is complementary to the referenced
standards, but it goes beyond them to
address the development and evaluation of systems incorporating
continuous quality improvement.
This recommended practice is specifically applicable to the mechanical
equipment industry.
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