How Oil and Gas Companies Can Ensure Successful Quality Management?

Oil and Gas industry has been heavily regulated. It constantly faces the challenge of meeting rising quality standards and complying with rigorous regulatory requirements. The following five-step process can ensure successful quality management at your oil and gas company:

Step One: Create a Quality Plan for you Oil & Gas Company

A quality plan enlists the quality standards, quality policies, requirements and best practices that pertain to a particular product or service. Implementation of this document ensures that your oil and gas company meets its quality objectives as well as customer’s expectations and requirements.

Step Two: Align Quality Targets with Quality Policies

Enlist all manufacturing processes that have any bearing on the end product. Assign quality target values to each process in accordance to quality policies; these values signify the number of permitted discrepancies per 1000 opportunities or incidences of the process. Quality targets help achieve ‘zero risk.’

Step Three: Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Quality Control tests the samples from the total production output and ensures quality standards and requirements are met while quality assurance ensures minimized defects, wastage and the reduction of problems when delivering services or implementing solutions.

Step Four: Develop Quality Measurement Techniques

Quality Measurement Techniques involve the assessment of the performance of the product against the set measures. Developing and employing quality measurement techniques ensures continual improvement of processes and increased customer satisfaction due to improved product quality.

Step Five: Quality Improvement

Quality improvement is a continuous cycle of evaluating performance/results followed by taking measures to improve performance; for e.g. evaluation and improvement of specific processes in the production/manufacturing of a product or evaluation and improvements of features, design etc.

Predict360’s Quality Management Software automates compliance to various regulations like API, ASMI and ISO, and increases quality production. It allows oil and gas companies to develop a risk-based method to quality and compliance management, and deliver a common structure with an integrated approach to meet regulatory requirements through risk management, document control, auditing as well as recording and reporting.

About the Company

360factors, Inc. (Austin, TX) helps companies improve business performance by reducing risk and ensuring compliance. Predict360, its flagship software product, vertically integrates regulations and requirements, policies and procedures management, risks and controls, audit management and inspections, and on-line training and qualifications, in a single cloud-based platform based on artificial intelligence.

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