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Source inspection and expediting services

Ensure the quality of your products, equipment, and materials before they are shipped from the manufacturer.
Source inspection is a quality control process that involves checking the product before it is shipped to the final user. This inspection is usually requested by the buyer to verify that the product meets quality standards, complies with regulations, and aligns with the client’s requirements. Conducted at supplier and vendor sites, source inspections play a critical role in maintaining quality control from the very beginning of the supply chain.

Your challenges

  • Ensuring the quality of your products, equipment, and materials.
  • Reducing product recalls and facility downtime by identifying defects and non-conformities early.
  • Minimizing potential risks from defective or inferior materials and components.
  • Ensuring your products, equipment, and materials meet client expectations and comply with regulatory requirements.

 

Contact us ?

Don't hesitate to contact us, for all of your demand in inspection, tests and measurments, consulting and technical support, certification and training.

Apave solutions

in Asia

Apave teams collaborate closely with clients to provide tailored source inspection services, supplemented by vendor audit services. Our experienced and qualified teams, equipped with industry-specific knowledge and expertise, help ensure the quality and reliability of your products, equipment, and materials. We customise our source inspection services to meet your specific needs, which may include:

  • Witnessing mechanical tests.
  • Factory acceptance tests.
  • Hydrostatic tests. 
  • Performance tests. 

We serve a wide range of clients across various industries and sizes, assisting them with their quality assurance and quality control processes. Our comprehensive services can be adapted as a one-time inspection or integrated into a continuous quality plan, actively improving the effectiveness and quality of your supply chain.

 

Fast, reliable local support

in Asia

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Apave is an international group specialising in risk management, with over 150 years of experience.

 

Every day, Apave's 16,500 employees collaborate with customers to help them protect what they value most: their employees, customers, and assets. Apave offers services and expertise in five key areas: inspection, training, testing and measurements, certification and labeling, and consulting and technical support.

 

Our teams consist of highly qualified and experienced experts. Thanks to their advanced technical expertise and in-depth knowledge of local regulatory frameworks, they perform reliable and precise technical inspections, considering the specific requirements of the country, sector, and building involved.

 

Whether it concerns personal safety, site safety and compliance, environmental safety, or digital security, Apave’s mission is always to be a trusted third party for its customers.

Your questions

about Source Inspection

  • What is Source Inspection?

    Source Inspection is a systematic process that provides quality surveillance of materials, equipment, and fabrications supplied for use in the oil, petrochemical, and gas industries, encompassing upstream, midstream, and downstream segments. This approach focuses on risk-based source inspection to ensure that the materials and equipment purchased meet the minimum requirements outlined in project documents and contractual agreements.
  • When should I call for Source Inspection services?

    You should consider using Source Inspection services when:

    • - You have significant orders or shipments to verify before arrival.
    • - Working with new suppliers or vendors.
    • - Monitoring production processes to identify defects early.
    • - Ensuring compliance with specific regulations or standards.
    • - Enhancing your overall quality assurance processes.
    • - Addressing previous quality issues.
  • How does the pre-shipment inspection process work?

    The pre-shipment inspection process involves:

    • - Eligibility: Contact our experts for pre-validation to determine whether your goods and equipment require third-party verification before shipping.
    • - Inspection: Our inspectors travel to supplier and vendor sites to verify that products, materials, and equipment comply with client specifications, current legislation, and quality system requirements.
    • - Reporting: We provide inspection and periodic status reports, tailored to meet the specific needs of our clients.
  • What are the benefits of Source Inspection?

    Benefits include:

    • Quality Assurance: Source Inspection ensures that materials, equipment, and fabrications meet established quality standards before they reach your facility. This proactive approach reduces the risk of receiving defective or substandard products, ultimately enhancing the overall quality of your operations. 
    • Risk Mitigation: By identifying potential issues early in the supply chain, Source Inspection helps mitigate risks associated with equipment failure, safety hazards, and non-compliance with regulations. This can lead to significant cost savings by preventing costly recalls, repairs, and downtime.
    • Regulatory Compliance: Source Inspection verifies that products comply with industry regulations and standards, helping your organization avoid legal penalties and maintain operational integrity. This is particularly critical in industries like oil and gas, where adherence to safety and environmental regulations is essential.
    • Enhanced Safety: By ensuring that materials and equipment meet safety specifications, Source Inspection contributes to a safer work environment. This is crucial in high-risk industries, where equipment failure can lead to accidents and injuries.
    • Improved Supplier Relationships: Engaging in Source Inspection fosters transparent communication and collaboration between buyers and suppliers. This helps establish trust and accountability, leading to stronger relationships and improved supply chain performance.
    • Cost Efficiency: Although Source Inspection involves an initial investment, it can lead to significant cost savings by preventing expensive errors and delays. By ensuring that materials and equipment are fit for purpose from the outset, you minimize the likelihood of unexpected expenses down the line.
    • Tailored Solutions: Source Inspection services can be customized to meet the specific needs of your project or organization. This flexibility allows for a more targeted approach, ensuring that the inspections conducted are relevant and effective.
    • Documentation and Traceability: Source Inspection provides thorough documentation of inspections and tests performed, creating a reliable record for future reference. This traceability is invaluable for audits, compliance checks, and quality assurance processes.

    In summary, Source Inspection is a critical component of quality control that enhances product reliability, ensures compliance, and ultimately leads to safer and more efficient operations.

  • In which countries can you operate?

    We provide these services in several countries, including China, the Emirates, France, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and more. Our teams are highly mobile and can travel anywhere in the region, able to intervene at short notice at various types of sites, whether in large cities or remote areas.

Our other services

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Building and renovating in complete safety

Construction, renovation and modification sites are subject to numerous controls in order to limit the risk, not only on the site itself, but also for the future operator of the premises. From structural or architectural modifications to improve a factory to the construction of an infrastructure intended to receive the public, numerous regulations have been put in place to reduce occupational risks. Apave works with you throughout your project to guarantee the safety of people and property by ensuring that your installations comply with current regulations.

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Safe operation

Your challenges involve managing human, environmental, technical and energy risks. Apave is at your side from :

- The design phase to bring your project to fruition (project management assistance for your industrial projects, verification of machine compliance, pressure equipment, ATEX, EMC, electricity, assistance with CE or UKCA marking of your goods and products, etc.).

- The commissioning phase to ensure that your project is compliant (conformity assessment of your equipment and machinery, drafting of technical files, initial verification of electrical installations, etc.).
The operating phase to guarantee safety (optimising the cost of compliance and control of technical risks, performance of your process, reliability approach, safety and availability of your installation, etc.).

- The maintenance phase to maintain the performance of your facilities and equipment (extending the life of your equipment with NDT, controlling the risks of your shutdowns and checking that procedures are followed, adhering to schedules, energy efficiency, etc.).

- The end-of-life phase to anticipate ageing and ensure safety (technical health check of an installation with assessment of associated costs, improvement plan, etc.).

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NDT Inspection

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) is a branch of testing that provides great advantages to the science and technology industry sectors due to its ability to evaluate the properties of materials using techniques that do not cause damage. It is an important solution for industrial inspection, especially for welding inspection and corrosion monitoring.

NDT application in manufacturing & installation processes help ensure:

  • - High levels of quality, while increasing the product safety and compliance
  • - Low prices by reducing waste product, material and workforce preservation
  • - Improvement of prestige and competitiveness in the market

 

NDT application in operational processes allow clients to:

  • - Ensure the safety of operating systems
  • - Reduce and save on maintenance costs
  • - Reduce amount of  time spent on plant shutdowns for maintenance purposes

Our strengths

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OUR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP APPROACH

Apave, an expert in risk management, makes it a point of honour to provide ever-higher quality services. The commitment of our customers is testimony to this. As a trusted third party, Apave intends to meet the growing expectations of its customers and create mutually beneficial relationships internationally.
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OUR EXPERTISE

Our teams have cutting-edge technical and regulatory expertise. We are a globally accredited inspection body (ASME, PED, IBR, MHLW, CRN, DOSH, MOM, etc.). Thanks to our expert engineers, Apave is involved throughout your project to ensure the best possible risk assessment, through inspection, training, certification, testing and measurement, and technical advice and support.
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OUR CORE VALUES

Apave has not only a strong safety culture, but also values that form a common foundation shared by all Group employees: customer focus, independence, professionalism, integrity and respect. These values are present at all levels, both in our in-house training and in the services we provide, with a single objective: quality.