API Q1 10th Edition is the newest revision to the oil and natural gas industry’s standard quality management system, created by the American Petroleum Institute (API) almost 40 years ago. Since its original publication, the API Q1 specification has periodically published revised editions to keep pace with its mission to provide essential best practices, standards and guidance for quality...

Quality management system (QMS) standards are the underpinning guidance that companies use to create management practices to improve and maintain excellence in their companies. Although various QMS standards have existed since the 1940s