API AARs

AAR Department Non-conformance description

No.
1 QA The facility has not planned QMS for implementation of
requirements of Addendum 2
of API Q1.
2 QA Quality System Manual does not identify the processes
requiring validation.
3 HR The organization shall maintain a documented procedure for
defining personnel competency and identifying training
requirements or other actions to achieve the necessary
competency of personnel whose responsibilities fall within the
scope of the quality management system.
4 Engineering Control of External Document ASME B 16.34 (which the facility
refers for deciding the pressure test requirements for the
products where the pressure class is defined in terms of
Pressure Classes like #600, #900, #1500 etc. ) , is not evident.
5 QA It is not evident that the facility had planned and conducted
internal audit for the outsourced activities of Calibration of
Testing, Monitoring and Measuring equipment" which are
performed at the facility site.
6 Inside sales There was no Contract Review CUM Work Order Records
evidenced for the Customer PO Number 4209140696, Rev 0
dated 06 Mar 2019 from M/s. Emerson Process Management
for Retrofitting of chokes parts for lower size trim assembly.
Para (b) of documented procedure JFC-P-IS-01, Rev 1 dated 01
Jun 2018 requires
"Review shall be done for quote and customer purchase order".
7 QA Contingency Planning for the risk related to “delivery of non-
conforming products to customers’ is not evidenced.
8 Engineering Evidenced records of Pressure Time Graphs for PR2 Validation
testing of API 6A GLOBE VALVE (Model VGB-40) 4-1/16”, 10000
psi, PSL3G, PR-2,FF-0.5, K+X, API 6FA, with Gear Box, BX-155, do
not demonstrate that the product was held at Maximum
Temperature of 180 degrees C for a period of 01 hour. Also,
 validation records for required Fire Safe Testing could not be
evidenced by the facility.
9 Purchase It is not evident that the facility has defined controls on the
outsourced processes of
1. Fugitive Emission Testing 2. Third Party Inspections
10 Production Documented system does not address the requirements for
qualification of equipment used for Post Weld Heat Treatment
of welded parts.
11 QC Evidence of conformity to requirements of Parallelism,
Perpendicularity, Concentricity of various surfaces (as required
in facility's drawing number 30A19CE1FA9CA9CFG-X, Rev 0) is
not available
12 Purchase Supplier Evaluation Records/Vendor Audit Report dated 15 Sep
2017 do not evidence that the capability of the supplier was
established to perform calibrations of Automatic Welding
Machine, Ovens, Steel Scale, Digital Clamp meter etc.
13 QC Verification records of purchased Nuts do not evidence
conformity to the requirements defined by the facility.
14 QC In one of the sampled cases, records of product release do not
enable identification of the individual releasing the product.