What is API Q1?

Learn how the American Petroleum Institute's API Q1 quality management system (QMS) is necessary for companies active in and supplying the oil and gas industry, and how QMS2GO's quality management software can help companies design, implement, and maintain an API Q1-conforming QMS. QMS2GO provides automated, AI-powered software solutions for quality managers, auditors, and organizations.

Watch What is API Q1? — a free video from the QMS2GO Learning Hub for quality managers, internal auditors, and manufacturing leaders working with ISO 9001 quality management systems. Every video in the hub is produced by the QMS2GO quality team and is free to view without signup.

Why this matters for your ISO 9001 QMS

Certification and surveillance audits sample records, not intentions. This video is most useful when you map what it describes onto the documented information you already produce — procedures, approvals, corrective actions, calibration and training records — and close whichever of those is thin before the next audit cycle.

How to use this video

Most quality teams get the most value by treating each video as a working session rather than passive background. Note the ISO 9001 clauses referenced, compare what is described against how your own organization currently handles that requirement, and write down the gap. Where the gap is a missing record, a missing owner, or a process that lives only in someone's head, that is exactly what a certification or surveillance auditor will find first. Share the video with process owners and supervisors so quality ownership is not concentrated in one person.

Who this is for

Quality managers building or inheriting an ISO 9001 quality management system, internal auditors preparing an audit program to ISO 19011, consultants supporting multiple client sites, production and operations leaders who own corrective actions, and executives who need a plain-language view of how quality performance connects to on-time delivery, scrap, rework, and customer complaints. No prior auditor training is assumed, and every video in the hub is free to view without signup or a credit card.

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Learn how the American Petroleum Institute's API Q1 quality management system (QMS) is necessary for companies active in and supplying the oil and gas industry, and how QMS2GO's quality management software can help companies design, implement, and maintain an API Q1-conforming QMS. QMS2GO provides automated, AI-powered software solutions for quality managers, auditors, and organizations.