Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Auditing, and Inspection:

Quality assurance can be defined as "part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled." The confidence provided by quality assurance is twofold—internally to management and externally to customers, government agencies, regulators, certifiers, and third parties.

Quality control can be defined as "part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements." While quality assurance relates to how a process is performed or how a product is made, quality control is more the inspection aspect of quality management. An alternate definition is "the operational techniques and activities used to fulfill requirements for quality."

Auditing is a part of the quality assurance function. It is important to ensure quality because it is used to compare actual conditions with requirements and to report those results to management.

Inspection is the process of measuring, examining, and testing to gauge one or more characteristics of a product or service and the comparison of these with specified requirements to determine conformity. Products, processes, and various other results can be inspected to make sure that the object coming off a production line, or the service being provided, is correct and meets specifications.

Services Include:

• Vendor Audits

• Vendor Surveillance

• Non-Destructive Testing Surveillance and Assurance

• Quality Assurance of specialty drilling/completions equipment

• Mill surveillance of drill pipe, casing and tubing manufacturing

• Project Management quality support

• Dimensional Conformance

• Shop and yard fabrication inspections

• Project site location inspection

• Functional & operational test witnessing

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