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Manufacturing today has come a long way in ensuring quality product is going out to their customers. Both manufacturers and service supply organizations are expected to maintain high quality standards. This is especially true in the petroleum and natural gas industries. By implementing our up to date compliance solutions, one can be assured of attaining and maintaining this goal. Whether you are a small company or large, global or local, we have the solution for you.
A lot of changes have been made in the petroleum and natural gas industries; new standards have been set and by using our Quality Management System you can stay ahead of the pack. With an effective Quality Management System in place, you assure your customers that everything is being done to produce the highest quality product. It is a competitive field; you need to show your customers, you can give them what they need to stay on top.
You will find Accupoint's compliance solutions are easy to integrate with all of your customers’ requirements into one simple cloud based program that can be accessed from anywhere. PC, smart phone, tablet, its there! Whether in the office or on the run, everything you need is at your fingertips. Keeping up to date with any changes is important in maintaining high standards; with alerts and email notifications you can ensure costly mistakes are avoided. So, next time someone says "get your head out of the clouds" tell them you're working, in the cloud.
Please contact us and request a demo. We are more than happy to demonstrate what we have, and how our compliance solutions can help your business.
A lot of changes have been made in the petroleum and natural gas industries; new standards have been set and by using our Quality Management System you can stay ahead of the pack. With an effective Quality Management System in place, you assure your customers that everything is being done to produce the highest quality product. It is a competitive field; you need to show your customers, you can give them what they need to stay on top.
You will find Accupoint's compliance solutions are easy to integrate with all of your customers’ requirements into one simple cloud based program that can be accessed from anywhere. PC, smart phone, tablet, its there! Whether in the office or on the run, everything you need is at your fingertips. Keeping up to date with any changes is important in maintaining high standards; with alerts and email notifications you can ensure costly mistakes are avoided. So, next time someone says "get your head out of the clouds" tell them you're working, in the cloud.
Please contact us and request a demo. We are more than happy to demonstrate what we have, and how our compliance solutions can help your business.
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Despite the bitterly cold and blistering winter the Eastern Seaboard has just fought through, the mild and almost non-existent winter of the West Coast has the US using 30 percent less natural gas than we did last year. And now according to The Fiscal Times, "there is over 1,470 billion cubic feet of natural gas in storage." With the peak season over, improved natural gas pipelines, and this increase in supply, the US is experiencing the lowest price for natural gas in three years.
The improved pipeline situation is a result of new pipelines, and older ones being re-purposed, making it easier to get the gas where it needs to go at a fraction of the cost, and ultimately driving down the end price as well. The US Energy Information Administration claims, "The US natural gas pipeline network is a highly integrated transmission and distribution grid that transports natural gas to and from anywhere in the continental US. The grid is comprised of more than 210 natural gas pipeline systems, over 300 thousand miles of interstate and intrastate transmission pipelines, more than 11 thousand delivery points, 24 market centers or hubs, and 400 underground natural gas storage facilities."
It's likely that natural gas drillers, coal mining companies, and coal plant owners will be the hardest hit by the low prices, and will have to make strong and effective decisions to improve their operations in order to absorb some of the lost revenue. While consumers, and utilities that own their own power plants will come out ahead. It will be imperative for drilling companies to increase their productivity by deploying advanced technology, more efficient equipment, and smarter operating software systems. The natural gas industry certainly isn't going anywhere, and will come out of the price plummet situation more streamlined, effective, and prosperous. Please contact us today to increase your competitive edge with comprehensive quality management solutions that are designed to help companies optimize decision-making capabilities, and improve their bottom line while offering a flexible, cloud-based platform.
The improved pipeline situation is a result of new pipelines, and older ones being re-purposed, making it easier to get the gas where it needs to go at a fraction of the cost, and ultimately driving down the end price as well. The US Energy Information Administration claims, "The US natural gas pipeline network is a highly integrated transmission and distribution grid that transports natural gas to and from anywhere in the continental US. The grid is comprised of more than 210 natural gas pipeline systems, over 300 thousand miles of interstate and intrastate transmission pipelines, more than 11 thousand delivery points, 24 market centers or hubs, and 400 underground natural gas storage facilities."
It's likely that natural gas drillers, coal mining companies, and coal plant owners will be the hardest hit by the low prices, and will have to make strong and effective decisions to improve their operations in order to absorb some of the lost revenue. While consumers, and utilities that own their own power plants will come out ahead. It will be imperative for drilling companies to increase their productivity by deploying advanced technology, more efficient equipment, and smarter operating software systems. The natural gas industry certainly isn't going anywhere, and will come out of the price plummet situation more streamlined, effective, and prosperous. Please contact us today to increase your competitive edge with comprehensive quality management solutions that are designed to help companies optimize decision-making capabilities, and improve their bottom line while offering a flexible, cloud-based platform.
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Making sure your business is API Specification Q1 compliant is the first step in receiving your API Spec Q1 certification. Using a web-based technology to ensure that you are replicating quality management systems across all departments and personnel makes it easier to earn and maintain your certification.
How are you currently tracking your company’s performance against the Q1 requirements? If it’s all on paper and not computer-based, you run the risk of missing opportunities to document and standardize business practices to meet the standards. A web-based software simplifies tracking compliance and building it into organizational processes. And, because it’s web-based, there’s no need to purchase or maintain complicated hardware. Rolling out your new system does not need to be time consuming or hard.
When selecting a software, choose one that easily integrates with your existing technology infrastructure and applications. In today’s wired world, it’s also important to select a tool that is compatible with and accessible from your mobile devices. Being able to access the program and receive alerts and email notifications wherever you are minimizes the likelihood that critical updates will be missed or received late.
Because no two businesses are the same, the software must be flexible enough to customize. Being able to report against your metrics and key performance indicators improves organizational visibility. That visibility reduces the cost of effective quality control and constrained resources. And, it will allow your company to achieve higher customer satisfaction rates and shorter lifecycles for new product launches.
The benefits of API Specification Q1 compliance are clear. To make meeting the standard easier, contact us for a demo.
How are you currently tracking your company’s performance against the Q1 requirements? If it’s all on paper and not computer-based, you run the risk of missing opportunities to document and standardize business practices to meet the standards. A web-based software simplifies tracking compliance and building it into organizational processes. And, because it’s web-based, there’s no need to purchase or maintain complicated hardware. Rolling out your new system does not need to be time consuming or hard.
When selecting a software, choose one that easily integrates with your existing technology infrastructure and applications. In today’s wired world, it’s also important to select a tool that is compatible with and accessible from your mobile devices. Being able to access the program and receive alerts and email notifications wherever you are minimizes the likelihood that critical updates will be missed or received late.
Because no two businesses are the same, the software must be flexible enough to customize. Being able to report against your metrics and key performance indicators improves organizational visibility. That visibility reduces the cost of effective quality control and constrained resources. And, it will allow your company to achieve higher customer satisfaction rates and shorter lifecycles for new product launches.
The benefits of API Specification Q1 compliance are clear. To make meeting the standard easier, contact us for a demo.
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Compliance is a major issue facing many businesses. This is especially true for organizations in the oil & natural gas industry. In today’s competitive environment, a Quality Management System (QMS) is an absolute prerequisite for manufacturing and service supply organizations. If your business is facing the increasing pressure for API compliance, or you are trying to maintain and grow your business in the current downturn, you need to integrate a cloud based QMS solution to compete with current regulatory and customer demands.
Quality is Competitive
Although many businesses look for quality management programs to merely meet compliance, the ideal solution for your business will make you more competitive, as well as compliant. Well-managed information is essential to compete in any industry, and quality management software's primary goal is to manage your information so that it is understandable and accessible by key players, wherever they may be.
From real-time reports to accurate understanding of KPIs, a quality management system takes the guesswork out of decision-making. Accurate and up-to-date information enables swift action on the part of your employees and management while limiting variation and surprises. With proper analytics and information management, your business can increase quality, cut costs and build a competitive edge.
Integrate: Platforms, Users, and Locations
In the global economy, businesses are finding new ways to integrate people, technologies, and locations. With multiple locations or employees working in the field, there are multiple touch-points which your software needs to cover. Whether you have global manufacturing facilities or local repair technicians, both require that you manage jobs locally, and integrate with the entire organization via cloud based technologies.
Competition is Demanding
Your software solutions must not only integrate across your organization, and enable you to compete within your industry, but also produce a quality management system which facilitates environmental, health and safety, and other regulatory compliance.
Quality management has long been a bastion of the well-run business, but with the increasing customer and regulatory demands and to increase your competitive edge, your business needs to have a complete quality management system. Accupoint Software specializes in providing these solutions to businesses, contact us for more information about our comprehensive solutions to manage API requirements.
Quality is Competitive
Although many businesses look for quality management programs to merely meet compliance, the ideal solution for your business will make you more competitive, as well as compliant. Well-managed information is essential to compete in any industry, and quality management software's primary goal is to manage your information so that it is understandable and accessible by key players, wherever they may be.
From real-time reports to accurate understanding of KPIs, a quality management system takes the guesswork out of decision-making. Accurate and up-to-date information enables swift action on the part of your employees and management while limiting variation and surprises. With proper analytics and information management, your business can increase quality, cut costs and build a competitive edge.
Integrate: Platforms, Users, and Locations
In the global economy, businesses are finding new ways to integrate people, technologies, and locations. With multiple locations or employees working in the field, there are multiple touch-points which your software needs to cover. Whether you have global manufacturing facilities or local repair technicians, both require that you manage jobs locally, and integrate with the entire organization via cloud based technologies.
Competition is Demanding
Your software solutions must not only integrate across your organization, and enable you to compete within your industry, but also produce a quality management system which facilitates environmental, health and safety, and other regulatory compliance.
Quality management has long been a bastion of the well-run business, but with the increasing customer and regulatory demands and to increase your competitive edge, your business needs to have a complete quality management system. Accupoint Software specializes in providing these solutions to businesses, contact us for more information about our comprehensive solutions to manage API requirements.
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For natural gas or petroleum manufacturing businesses, API Spec Q1 compliance is a major land-mark towards demand satisfaction. Whether you seek to prevent product recalls, increase employee efficiency, or show customers your quality, Spec Q1 compliance is a valuable asset.
Product Recalls
Product recalls are often the result of not catching variations in supply quality or in your manufacturing processes before the product is in the field. With the extreme costs of production loss during a product recall, it is in the best interest of your company, and your customers, to maintain quality standards throughout your organization.
The right software solution for your business will be able to track variations in product, process or supply, and give you the tools to fix them. Additionally, the right system for API compliance will work across your business, from the entry-level janitorial staff to the C-Suite, each person involved in your business will have access to their pertinent information.
Increase Employee Efficiency
This information management will give you the ability to diagnose areas where employees need more training and where your systems need changed. The goal of a quality management system is to go beyond compliance, into competition and excellence.
An integrated system designed for API Q1 compliance gives you opportunity to continually increase the quality of your people and processes, which creates a great product.
Show Customers Quality Product
API Spec Q1 compliance is an opportunity to manage and renovate all of your business systems to produce a better product faster. This is what efficiency and quality does, and when you can show your commitment to your customers with full compliance, you are on your way towards growing your business in this competitive industry. For more information on API, ISO and other compliance standards, and how to meet them with our cloud based software solutions, please contact us.
Product Recalls
Product recalls are often the result of not catching variations in supply quality or in your manufacturing processes before the product is in the field. With the extreme costs of production loss during a product recall, it is in the best interest of your company, and your customers, to maintain quality standards throughout your organization.
The right software solution for your business will be able to track variations in product, process or supply, and give you the tools to fix them. Additionally, the right system for API compliance will work across your business, from the entry-level janitorial staff to the C-Suite, each person involved in your business will have access to their pertinent information.
Increase Employee Efficiency
This information management will give you the ability to diagnose areas where employees need more training and where your systems need changed. The goal of a quality management system is to go beyond compliance, into competition and excellence.
An integrated system designed for API Q1 compliance gives you opportunity to continually increase the quality of your people and processes, which creates a great product.
Show Customers Quality Product
API Spec Q1 compliance is an opportunity to manage and renovate all of your business systems to produce a better product faster. This is what efficiency and quality does, and when you can show your commitment to your customers with full compliance, you are on your way towards growing your business in this competitive industry. For more information on API, ISO and other compliance standards, and how to meet them with our cloud based software solutions, please contact us.
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We are all aware of the current volatility with respect to the price of oil. The price of oil has fallen dramatically over the past couple of months and industry growth is expected to be flat throughout 2015. The current cycle poses many challenges. This is shaping up to be the year that you will be asked to do more with less. Unfortunately, your customers will continue to demand process and quality improvements, capital efficiency and risk minimization.
Progressive, forward-thinking organizations will take advantage of the current environment to position for future growth. Instead of worrying about how many rigs are being stacked, how low the price of oil will go, or cutting employees, they will focus on doing the job, servicing the customer, and improving process efficiency. At some point the market will recover and these organizations will be leading the pack.
Accupoint can provide cost effective solutions to help take advantage of these opportunities. Our flexible API compliance solutions provide a toolkit to save staff time in data acquisition and analysis, while ensuring that quality metrics are managed and monitored consistently. Our easy, subscription model provides you with maximum flexibility as your needs or requirements change.
Accupoint's comprehensive, web-based solutions can:
To learn how we can help you grow your competitive edge, call us toll-free at 800.563.6250 or visit us on the web at www.accupointsoftware.com
Progressive, forward-thinking organizations will take advantage of the current environment to position for future growth. Instead of worrying about how many rigs are being stacked, how low the price of oil will go, or cutting employees, they will focus on doing the job, servicing the customer, and improving process efficiency. At some point the market will recover and these organizations will be leading the pack.
Accupoint can provide cost effective solutions to help take advantage of these opportunities. Our flexible API compliance solutions provide a toolkit to save staff time in data acquisition and analysis, while ensuring that quality metrics are managed and monitored consistently. Our easy, subscription model provides you with maximum flexibility as your needs or requirements change.
Accupoint's comprehensive, web-based solutions can:
- Improve customer satisfaction through consistent processes/products.
- Improve customer perception and buy-in.
- Increase quality awareness and job understanding among employees.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and increased profitability
- Improve communication within your organization.
- Facilitate company cost reductions through efficiencies realized.
To learn how we can help you grow your competitive edge, call us toll-free at 800.563.6250 or visit us on the web at www.accupointsoftware.com
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Accupoint's training and consulting partner, Wollam Petroleum Advisory Group (WPAG) will host a free API Q2 conference for small business.
In Q2 of 2015, WPAG, the official developers of API-U’s, API Q2 and API Q1 training programs will be hosting a one (1) day conference on the value and benefits of the API Standards. This program will be held at WPAG headquarters in Houston and will include presenters from WPAG, API and several of the major Oil Field Operators.
Reserve your spot now by contacting wollampag.com. The conference limited to the first 100 registrants.
In Q2 of 2015, WPAG, the official developers of API-U’s, API Q2 and API Q1 training programs will be hosting a one (1) day conference on the value and benefits of the API Standards. This program will be held at WPAG headquarters in Houston and will include presenters from WPAG, API and several of the major Oil Field Operators.
Reserve your spot now by contacting wollampag.com. The conference limited to the first 100 registrants.
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The new API Spec Q2 standard requires Service Supply Organizations to develop a Service Quality Plan to control the execution of the service or the use of a service related product (SRP). As part of the plan documentation, we are required to identify project deliverables, as well as customer deliverables. Distinguishing the two terms can create some confusion, so we would like to define and differentiate between the two in today’s post.
Let’s start with project deliverables. This is the list of all activities that are required to develop the project but aren’t necessarily the deliverables required by the contract. This includes activities like sketches, models, training, calculations, and so on that allow you to produce the customer deliverable. It is important to have a detailed list of project deliverables to calculate the time, cost, and/or resources required to provide the service.
On the other hand, customer deliverables are activities that must be satisfied and are used to make payment, or monitor project progress. A simple example, not related to the oil and gas industry, would be the production of an automobile. The customer wants your organization to build a car and gives you all of the required specifications including color, accessories and horsepower specifications. In order to fulfill the customer requirements, you must complete the production of the car to the specifications.
However, there are a variety of project deliverables you must complete in order to make the car. This includes planning, materials, labor, machinery and sub-components required to develop and manufacture the car. To summarize, customer deliverables are what you get paid for, and project deliverables define how you produce what you get paid for.
For more information on how Accupoint’s cloud-based quality management systems can help your organizations handle the documentation of deliverables, visit www.accupointsoftware.com or call us toll free at 800.563.6250!
Let’s start with project deliverables. This is the list of all activities that are required to develop the project but aren’t necessarily the deliverables required by the contract. This includes activities like sketches, models, training, calculations, and so on that allow you to produce the customer deliverable. It is important to have a detailed list of project deliverables to calculate the time, cost, and/or resources required to provide the service.
On the other hand, customer deliverables are activities that must be satisfied and are used to make payment, or monitor project progress. A simple example, not related to the oil and gas industry, would be the production of an automobile. The customer wants your organization to build a car and gives you all of the required specifications including color, accessories and horsepower specifications. In order to fulfill the customer requirements, you must complete the production of the car to the specifications.
However, there are a variety of project deliverables you must complete in order to make the car. This includes planning, materials, labor, machinery and sub-components required to develop and manufacture the car. To summarize, customer deliverables are what you get paid for, and project deliverables define how you produce what you get paid for.
For more information on how Accupoint’s cloud-based quality management systems can help your organizations handle the documentation of deliverables, visit www.accupointsoftware.com or call us toll free at 800.563.6250!
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Accupoint Software's training and consulting partner, Wollam Petroleum Advisory Group (WPAG) has announced the launch of the PetroWise™ Virtual Classroom.
In Q1 of 2015, WPAG will launch the Petrowise platform allowing WPAG to deliver the world’s best training to companies around the globe via a web interface, eliminating the need for travel.
The platform is superior to traditional teaching methods, and has more interaction, controls and security while using live API-U approved instructors. WPAG has spared no expense to ensure that the Industry has the absolute best training experience while ensuring employee competencies.
To find out more about the new platform, contact WPAG at www.wollampag.com or Accupoint Software at www.accupointsoftware.com.
To find out more about the new platform, contact WPAG at www.wollampag.com or Accupoint Software at www.accupointsoftware.com.
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A comprehensive QMS should include components for monitoring and measuring customer feedback. It should contain effective procedures for the receipt, logging, evaluation, investigation & reporting of all issues raised by the customer. The results of this analysis should then be used as a driver for designing and implementing improvements to your system.
For more information on integrating customer satisfaction into your Quality management program, contact the Accupoint team toll-free at 800-563-6250 or visit us on the web at www.accupointsoftware.com
For more information on integrating customer satisfaction into your Quality management program, contact the Accupoint team toll-free at 800-563-6250 or visit us on the web at www.accupointsoftware.com
Happy and satisfied customers are the lifeblood of your business. Everybody knows that, but did you know that customer satisfaction should be built into your quality management system (QMS).
When you think about it, quality performance is first and foremost about meeting the needs and expectations of the customer. Therefore, we need to expand our definition of quality management to include customer satisfaction as a means of improving performance over the long term.
The following chart helps to illustrate the concept:
When you think about it, quality performance is first and foremost about meeting the needs and expectations of the customer. Therefore, we need to expand our definition of quality management to include customer satisfaction as a means of improving performance over the long term.
The following chart helps to illustrate the concept:
