Quality Management System
From the heat number to the handover dossier.
Operational quality across the asset lifecycle, including inspection and test plans, hold, witness and review points, signed inspection attestations, non-conformance control and corrective-action verification.
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Seven links, and every one of them has to hold.
A quality dossier is only worth what its weakest link is worth. The question that decides it is narrow: given one weld, can you produce the material certificate, the plan it was inspected against, the attestation of the person who inspected it, and the disposition of anything that went wrong.
Material arrives with a certificate and a heat number. Receiving inspection either accepts it or puts it in quarantine, which is its own state rather than a delayed acceptance.
Disposition is an engineering decision, not an administrative one.
Use as is, repair, rework, reject or return. Each has a different consequence for the asset, which is why the disposition is made by a technical authority rather than by whoever raised the report or whoever is under pressure to close it.
Classification, severity and source are held separately, so what went wrong, how badly, and who found it are three different questions.
- Source is recordedWhether a deviation was found by inspection, receiving, surveillance or by somebody raising it manually is kept, because it says something about the system that found it.
- Cancelled is not closedA cancelled report is held apart from a closed one, so closure rate cannot be improved by cancelling.
- Verification before closureCorrective work complete and verified are two states. The second needs somebody other than the person who did the work.
Five states, and one of them is somebody else's.
A report waits at engineering review until a technical authority dispositions it. That wait is visible on the dashboard as its own queue, because it is the step where quality systems quietly stall.
Twenty-one modules, across the whole asset lifecycle.
Engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance; one quality record rather than a separate system per phase. Every chip is a page.
Quality management
Quality plans, programmes and objectives with an approval lifecycle, a standards library with an applicability matrix, and the non-conformance and corrective-action registers at the centre of the system.
- Quality Register
- NCR
- CAPA
- Quality plans
- Standards library
Inspection and construction
Inspection and test plans with hold, witness and review points, inspection execution with signed attestation, punch lists, daily quality reports and rework trends.
- ITPs
- Inspections
- Punch lists
- Daily quality reports
- Rework trends
Welding and non-destructive testing
Welding procedure specifications and procedure qualification records, welder qualification, repair chains, and the non-destructive testing that decides whether a weld is accepted.
- WPS / PQR
- Welder qualification
- Repair chains
- NDT
Supplier and materials
Receiving inspection with quarantine as its own state, material certificates, lots and heat-to-equipment traceability, supplier register, factory acceptance tests, surveillance and vendor scorecards.
- Receiving inspection
- Material certificates
- Lots & heat traceability
- Supplier register
- FATs
- Surveillance
- Vendor scorecard
Quality governance
Audit management with findings that raise corrective actions, quality risks and opportunities, competency, and the compliance position against the standards that apply.
- Audits
- Findings
- Quality risks & opportunities
- Competency
- Compliance
Commissioning and handover
Commissioning quality, quality dossiers assembled from the records that produced them, customer acceptance, document control and the reporting behind all of it.
- Commissioning quality
- Quality dossiers
- Customer acceptance
- Document Control
- Reporting
The inspector signs. The record carries their name.
Quality, welding, mechanical, electrical, instrument and civil engineers; inspectors and site inspectors; discipline supervisors and construction managers; maintenance engineers and asset managers. What ties them together is that somebody has to attest, and the attestation has to survive the project.
- Signed attestation on the inspection record
- Hold, witness and review points enforced in sequence
- Quarantine held as its own state on receiving
A score is only useful if you can take it apart.
Quality health is a weighted average across inspection, freedom from non-conformance, corrective action, construction close-out and incoming material. Each dimension shows its weight, its score, the number of records behind it and a link straight to the register; and a dimension with no records is excluded rather than scored zero.
Every figure is a count you can rebuild from the registers.
Panels that show the current position say so rather than silently ignoring the period filter. Indicators that have no records to judge on are reported as unrated instead of being given a default.
Disposition is a technical authority act
Use as is, repair, rework, reject and return are engineering decisions with consequences, so the disposition is made by a technical authority rather than by the raiser or the contractor.
A score you can take apart
Quality health is a weighted average across named dimensions, each showing its weight, its score, the records behind it and a link to its register. A dimension with no records is excluded rather than scored zero.
Quarantine is a state
Material that failed receiving inspection is quarantined rather than marked pending, so it cannot be issued to work while somebody decides.
Signed attestation
An inspection record carries the attestation of the person who performed it, which is what makes the dossier evidence rather than a summary.
More of what the application covers.
- Standards library with an applicability matrix
- Hold, witness and review points enforced in sequence
- Repair chains tracked through welding
- Factory acceptance tests derived from witnessed checkpoints
- Vendor scorecards from recorded outcomes
- Audit findings that raise corrective actions automatically
- Every dashboard figure linked to the register behind it
- Controlled export of reports as documents
Quality, beside completion and supplier assurance.
- CCMSCCMS: Completion, Commissioning & Handover Management SystemCCMS governs completion and commissioning execution; QMS governs the quality framework to which inspection and test records must conform.
- CVMSCVMS: Contractor / Vendor Management SystemCVMS governs supplier compliance and assurance; QMS governs internal quality processes and records.
- AIRMSAIRMS: Asset Integrity & Reliability Management SystemAIRMS governs asset integrity in operation using material, inspection and fabrication records originating in the quality lifecycle.
- IMSIMS: Integrated Management SystemIMS governs the management-system framework and clause structure referenced by quality audits.
See QMS with one of your non-conformances.
Bring one non-conformance and the material behind it. We will trace it from the heat number through the plan and the inspection to the disposition, the corrective action and the dossier it lands in.