API audit readiness and technical training for pipe and equipment manufacturers

It depends on the distance between your current system and the standard. A mill with a documented quality system usually needs six to ten weeks to close findings and assemble evidence; a first-time monogram applicant should plan for four to six months. Every engagement opens with a gap assessment, so the schedule rests on evidence rather than an estimate.

An internal audit checks your system against the standard and against your own procedures, and both API Spec Q1 and ISO 9001 require it. An external audit is the one a certification body or a client performs on you. A supplier audit is one you commission on a vendor to verify their controls before you accept their material. We conduct all three.

Both. Document review, procedure drafting, and training sessions run remotely. Process verification, witnessing inspections, and gathering shop-floor evidence happen on site. Most engagements combine the two so travel cost stays proportionate to the work.

English and Spanish. Instructors, slides, exercises, and issued materials exist in both languages, and mixed-language groups are common in our sessions.

After a short scoping call. The quote is built from scope, standard, number of sites, and audit-day count, and it stays fixed for the scope agreed. Neither the scoping call nor the initial gap review is charged.