• Technical Due Diligence & Compliance:
  • Compliance with the customer specifications, site specifications;
  • Compliance with the maintenance programs;
  • Correlation of the performance with the projections/predictions;
• Inspection of components:
  • Rotor including blades and hub assembly;
  • Mechanical transmission;
  • Gear boxes;
  • Nacelle;
  • Tower structure;
  • Control and protection systems;
  • Electrical systems;
  • Mechanical systems;
  • Generators, converters;
  • Rotating /electrical machinery;
  • Switch gear, alternators;
  • Pipes, fittings, pipe coatings;
  • Valves;
  • Actuators;
  • Turbines;
  • DC motor brush inspection;
  • Heating and cooling systems;
  • High speed centrifugal compressors;
• Transformers;
• Inspection of:
  • Fatigue cracks;
  • Dents;
  • Deformations;
  • Corrosion;
  • Cooling media and lubrication;
• Witnessing tests:
  • Transformers;
  • Control and protection systems;
  • Hydrostatic testing;
  • Personnel safety systems;
• Warehousing services:
  • Management;
  • Fulfillment;
  • IT system implementation;
  • Kitting;
  • Distribution;
  • Inventory control;
• Supply chain audits;
• Vendor Surveillance;
• Sub contractor evaluation and surveillance;
• Shop/facility inspection;
• Loading supervision;
• Site supervision;
• Technology Insertion
• ERP Implementation
• Procedure and process development and deployment;
• Non conformance tracking;
• QA/QC inspection/Audit:
  • Visual testing/inspection;
  • Record retention systems;
• Expediting services;
• Witnessing NDE, NDT tests;
• Risk identification and management;
• Supply chain audit;
• Verification of suppler inventories – materials, equipment, tools, spares;
• Vendor capability audit.

ASR’s QA staff is sufficiently experienced in applying cost-effective Quality Assurance programs graded to the degree of safety and reliability of the activity in a nuclear power plant. They are extensively experienced in quality program development and implementation, inspection planning and performance, training in QA fields, records management and performance based auditing and surveillance. ASR can maintain a Quality Assurance System in compliance with the Department of Energy and international regulation and guidelines.
 

The ASR Quality Assurance Team can be organized to work according to client requirements and to produce an efficient nuclear power plant performance through Quality Assurance and superior technical standards.
 

The ASR Quality Assurance Team helps the client to develop, implement and maintain a Quality Assurance Program, provides and demonstrates support for the effective implementation of the Quality Assurance Program consistent with specific time schedules.

ASR's quality assurance support services consist of:

• Dye Penetrant Quality Control Specialists:
  • Materials Procurement Document review;
  • Commercial Grade Item Dedication;
  • Vendor Surveillance;
• Boiler and pressure vessel inspection as per the ASME codes;
• Non-Conformance Control:
  • Root Cause Analysis;
  • Corrective Actions;
  • Quality Evaluations;
• Quality Control Engineering and Planning:
  • Inspection Requirements for design changes;
  • Inspection and surveillance planning;
• Certified Quality Control Inspectors :
  • Electrical Inspectors, Level II and III;
  • Mechanical Inspectors, Level II and III;
  • I &C Inspectors, Level II and III;
  • ASNT (Level II, III)
  • ASQ, RAB, IRCA certified inspectors
  • AWS certified welding inspectors
• Quality Control NDE Technicians:
  • Magnetic Particle;
  • Radiography;
  • Ultrasonic;
  • Visual;
• Quality Assurance Engineers:
  • Lead Auditors;
  • Discipline Quality Assurance Engineers;
  • Operations Quality Assurance;
  • Maintenance Quality Assurance;
  • Safety System Functional Audit and Review;
  • Document Review.

At Supplier Sites

ASR provides source inspection and acceptance of components, equipment and systems prior to shipment. Inspections include verification to blueprints and specifications via:

• Metallurgical examination, tensile testing, hardness testing, material traceability, heat treatment, etc.;
• Visual inspection;
• Dimensional inspection;
• Thread inspection and torque verification;
• Nondestructive inspection verification of ultrasonic, dye penetrant, radiography and magnetic particle inspection;
• Anticorrosion coating inspection;
• Hydro and pnuemo pressure testing;
• Performance and environmental testing;
• Conformance to ANSI, ASME, AWS, ASTM, IEEE, IPC, API, ASI, NACE, NEMI, ASTM, ANSI/NCSL Z540.1 and other, standards, codes and specifications;
• Visual and dimensional inspection as per ANSI-Y14.5 (geometric dimension and tolerancing)
• Other services such as:
  • Preparation of inspection plans and procedures;
  • Audits of processes, quality systems and documentation;
  • First Article Inspection report (FAIR)
  • Surveys;
  • Sub contractor evaluation;
  • Status evaluation and delivery expediting;
  • Inspection of rotating/electrical machinery;
  • Surveillance at production facilities, fabrication plants, manufacturing sites, staging areas, and other assembly operations.

At ASR Customer Facilities

Customer facilities include drilling sites, pipelines, wellheads, downholes, refineries, offshore platforms, chemical plants, etc.

• Review of construction work packages;
• Equipment operational checkouts;
• Installation inspections;
• Safety inspections;
• Evaluation of regulatory, health and environmental compliance;
• Structural weld examinations;
• Corrosion surveys;
• Shutdown maintenance and turnaround inspection;
• On-stream inspection;
• Piping inspections;
• Tracking and follow up of non-conformances;
• Training of personnel.

At End-User Facilities

• Response to end-user emergencies on behalf of clients;
• Evaluation of client quality systems;
• Represent customer/client at end-user, product installation or field application;
• Provide solutions to product interface problems;
• Make regularly scheduled coordination visits to end-users;
• Evaluate customer/client product quality at end-users;
• Assess potential end-user usage and stock levels for effect on future requirements;
• Report recommendations for improvement in end-user service and product quality to ASR customers/clients.

BROAD EQUIPMENT COVERAGE Raw Material and Commodities

Typical Installations and Equipment

Hemi-coil Jacketed Vessels  Drums  Centrifuges  Vaporizers  Collectors  Blowers/Fans  Agitators  Loading Arms  Overhead Crane  Drivers  Gas/Oil/Water Separator  Turbines  Boilers  Incinerators

Drilling Equipment  Rotary Equipment  Derricks  Pipelines  Risers  Pumps  Pressure Vessels  Compressors  Tanks  Spheres  Heaters  Conveyors  Heat Exchangers

Motors  Generators  Instrumentation  Cathodic Protection Systems  Regulators  Gas Detectors  Filtration Equipment  Distillation and Condensation Systems  Valves  Reactors  Cooling Towers  Fractionating Columns  Electrical Installations, Raceways, Terminations, Cable Pulls  Switchgear

Additional ASR Support Services

• Resources:

Quality Assurance, Procurement and Engineering professionals experienced with military, government agency, and commercial specifications, codes and required procedures. Capable of evaluating, preparing corrective action requirements and reporting on results. ASQ CQA's, RAB, IRCA, APAIW, and APIQR auditors plus AWS and API assessors.

• Typical Services - Types of Audits:

• ISO 9000, ISO 9001, TS-16949, NQA, ACI, ASTM, and ISO 14000;
• DOE Standards and Workmanship Handbook;
• Current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP);
• Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA);
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regulations;
• Compliance with Contractual Documentation and Obligations, Purchase Orders;
• Resident or Periodic Surveillance of Facilities, Procedures, Documentation and Controls;
• Manufacturing Processes;
• Procurement Systems;
• Product, Acceptance, Environmental Testing;
• Review and Audit of Supplier Process Control, capabilities, qualifications;
• Review of Health and Safety Plan (HASP);
• Review of processes for calibration and metrology;
• Gauge calibration;
• Review of operation sheets;
• Data/Configuration Management .

• Resources

ASR’s team has procurement, manufacturing, quality assurance, material, production control, and expediting professionals with the capability of systematically evaluating status and supporting corrective actions and recovery programs at suppliers/customer/construction sites.

• Typical Services

• Monitor and report on Supplier Program status;
• Identify and Resolve Problems and act as an interface at supplier facilities/construction sites;
• Develop detailed schedules, milestones and track performance;
• Assist in negotiations for work scope changes;
• Coordinate required contractor data requirements and reports;
• Conduct periodic inventories of raw material, Work-In-Progress, finished goods, tooling and contractor furnished equipment;
• Conduct Trending Analyses to identify anticipated schedule slippages or quality deterioration;
• Monitor supplier procurement systems and procedures;
• Provide Interface and Point-of-Contact Services to all field activities;
• Hand-carry critical materials and finished goods to reduce travel delays;
• Make recommendations to resolve production/construction bottlenecks.

• Resources

Highly qualified and trained software, IT professionals experienced in all types of software languages utilized for productivity as well as quality improvements at suppliers/customers/construction sites. ASR experts can implement COTS solutions and also dvelop customized, web enabled applications as per customer requirements.

• Typical Services
• Develop and Code Real-Time Software (Higher Order Languages);
• System Security Design and Implementation;
• Architecture Design and Assessment;
• Database Design (Physical/Logical);
• Database Conversion, Installation, Evaluation and Selection;
• New Management Information System Development and Support;
• Business process reengineering and implementation of enterprise application solutions;
• Software Quality Assurance;
• Technical Documentation/User Manuals Development and Upgrading;
• Local Area Network (LAN) Development and Support;
• Assembly, Installation and Support of Advanced Engineering Workstations;
• Computer-Based Training System Development;
• On-Site Technical Assistance/Problem Resolution;
• Develop and Test Software for Control Systems;
• Software testing, verification, validation (IV&V)
• Development and deployment of web enabled applications;
• Technology insertion/implementation
• Legacy systems migration.

• Resources:
• Registered professional engineers with related construction backgrounds in design and site management of buildings, roads, bridges, pipelines, powerplants, dams, airports, towers, military projects, etc.;
• Certified inspectors experienced in enforcement of construction codes and specifications.


• Typical Services:
• Inspection and auditing of buildings, highways, bridges, concrete, etc. to applicable codes and specifications;
• Construction site management and resident engineering;
• Structural engineering and architectural design;
• Engineering analysis/review and architectural engineering;
• Construction progress reporting and milestone monitoring;
• Structural welding inspection by certified inspectors;
• Reinforced concrete design, test and inspection;
• Project cost estimating and scheduling;
• Environmental compliance analysis and auditing;
• Field inspection worldwide at suppliers, construction sites and end users facilities utilizing ASR's local professionals;
• Engineering/construction management of pipelines, compressor stations, metering stations;
• Develop control and instrument requirements for pipelines and wastewater treatment;
• Develop and test control systems;
• Prepare procurement requirements, bid requests and evaluation for components of drilling platform and terminal facilities;
• Management support for budgeting and program control of drilling and pipeline projects;
• Provide data management for drawings, changes, safety procedures relating to new pipeline projects, upgrades to existing systems, storage, compressor and metering stations;
• Maintenance of pump stations, pipelines, drill sites;
• Analysis of ultrasonic and MFL pipeline inspection data and pipeline defect data;
• Support the installation of cathodic protection system for storage tanks, pipelines and refineries;
• Receipt Inspections;
• NDT witnessing/interpretation;
• Documentation review

Right Of Way (ROW) Support Services

• Typical Services:
• Project : Supervise all activities, schedule, budget, and client/property owner liaison;
• Route and site selection: Interpret topographical maps, photos, terrain, and archaeological studies;
• Title research: Review files and records, check ownership, leases, liens and encumbrances;
• Environmental: Determine past use of land, environmental testing;
• Right of entry and site inspection: Obtain owners’ permission to inspect property;
• Appraisal: Determine fair market value using approved formulas;
• Negotiation and acquisition: Settlement based on proper valuation, all contact is documented;
• Construction liaison and damage settlements: Liaison between property owner and construction crews; rapidly evaluate alleged damage and settle claim;
• Crossing permits: Obtain permits to cross highways, railroads, rivers, wetlands, parks, etc.;
• Software: Maintain line lists, acquisition records, ownership, encroachments, pipeline repair;
• Encroachments: Examine alignment maps, easements, and surface restrictions.

ASR provides highly qualified professionals with many years of extensive experience in the concepts and principles of Total Quality Management (TQM). The components of TQM include management style, quality trilogy of planning, control and improvement, tools and techniques to achieve TQM.

• Development of statistical process control charts and systems;
• Assist customer to evaluate administrative and manufacturing systems and processes;.
• Establish a program of leadership development;
• Champion new ideas based on customer focus;
• Establish and train clients’ employees in project planning and management;
• Introduce strategic planning;
• Assist customer in developing and implementing Business Re-engineering;
• Assist customer in Policy Deployment;
• Develop and implement Team building, training, and effectiveness;
• Change management and effective change within an organization:
  • Organizational cultural shifts;
  • Leadership change;
  • Reorganization;
  • Technological advances;
  • Competitors;
  • Legal;
  • Environmental
  • Suppliers;
• Establish, develop and/or train employees in measurement and analysis of products and processes
• Structured problem solving;
• Basic Quality Tools:
  • Pareto Analysis;
  • Process Flow Diagrams;
  • Control Charts;
  • Fish bone diagrams;
  • Brainstorming;
  • Cause and effect diagrams
• Statistical Quality/Process Analysis:
  • Data Gathering;
  • Organization of Data;
  • Prioritization of key characteristics;
• Quality Professionals include Certified Quality Engineers (CQE), Certified Quality Managers (CQM), Certified Quality Instructors (CQI),
• Six Sigma Black Belts and Master Black Belts.

• Incorporated in 1986 with the primary mission of providing worldwide quality assurance, inspection and expediting support services;
• Received U.S. Government award for ‘Business Excellence’;
• Member of American Society for Quality (ASQ) since 1989;
• Member of American Petroleum Institute (API);
• US Congress recognitions for contributions to Homeland Security
• Member of Pipeline Testing Services;
• Member of the National Conference of Standards Laboratories since 1993;
• Extremely sound financially;
• Established credit lines to meet financial obligations;
• Very satisfactory credit rating by financial institutions;

The ASR Corporate Headquarters is located in a modern, high technology industrial park in Long Island, NY. It is equipped with state of art communication equipment, best of breed tools and sophisticated IT systems to manage our globally distributed work force. Our resources database, complied over a period of over twenty years, has extensive details of available worldwide resources for QA, Engineering, IT, Supply Chain, Compliance Inspection, Audits Support Services. These local professionals, who are listed in the ASR database by their technical skills, specialty and geographic location, are available for prompt deployment in accordance with customer requirements.

Local presence is maintained through key areas of the United States and multinational locations to provide customer service almost anywhere in the world. The regional facilities are staffed by area managers who are in constant contact with senior management at corporate headquarters, providing program status, technical inputs, recruiting of top-notch local technical and managerial talent and recommendations for program improvement originating from their direct hands-on knowledge.

ASR supervisors have extensive technical and business training and extensive involvement with petrochemical, energy, nuclear and gas industries or government agencies. This will ensure total customer satisfaction through on-time, quality performance in the most cost-effective way.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL MECHANISMS

ASR offers skillful, experiences project management that is vital for the successful completion of any project. ASR's task-force-team provides total capabilities for a project of any size. All team members have access to advanced software and communications capabilities for collecting and analyzing information about the progress of a project.

• All customer quality assurance engineering support programs use ASR's project management procedures to ensure the most effective use of modern management tools in planning, organizing and controlling all program activities;
• ASR has developed and deployed a web enabled application – ASR PTS – to track, manage the distributed work force. The system has modules for:
  • Field knowledge capture;
  • Training;
  • Performance tracking;
  • Depository of project related information, documents, procedures;
  • Best practices and knowledge sharing;
  • Tracking of manpower utilization;
  • Employee productivity;
• Online secured database for uploading and storage of reports, digital photos from the filed team for secured access by ASR’s customers;
• Each QA program is assigned to a program manager who reports directly to the Director of Programs;
• The program manager provides a close interface with the customer and responds in a timely and effective manner on all aspects of the program;
• The ASR program management organization carefully reviews program performance, supplier quality trends, costs, schedules, manpower; documentation, regional office needs, technical and expense reports, customer presentations, corrective actions, continuous improvement activities, test laboratory data, etc. to further ensure on-time shipment of quality products within budgeted cost;
• Skilled engineer/inspectors are selected by geographic location and timely availability. Those selected are trained in the requirements, goals and procedures of the program and customer. Written procedures and checklists are assigned;
• Customer assignments are received by the program manager, logged into the automatic database for delegation to each inspector and follow-up/coordination by program managers;
• Supervisors review engineer/inspectors' reports for performance evaluations;
• Cost control is maintained by the Management Information System (MIS) which provides accurate and timely updates on status of program element budgets such as cost-to-date, estimates at/to completion and variances to budget;
• The database input is via approved labor hour and expense report records;
• Completed inspections are reported and program management analysis will determine supplier quality trends, corrective actions, continuous improvement activities, test laboratory data;
• Scheduled program performance reviews are held by ASR to anticipate problem areas and provide progress reports to our customers;
• Customer meetings and presentations are conducted regularly to produce corrective actions to completely satisfy our customers;
• Complete and detailed reports are provided as required by the customers.

• ASR provides worldwide quality assurance support services to petrochemical, oil and gas, nuclear and the energy industry organizations with highly qualified, professional and certified ASR personnel in the most cost-effective way;
• ASR provides its customers the benefits of the ASR project management organization, best of breed tools and proven techniques;
• ASR has achieved significant customer cost reductions due to its use of local resources resulting in reduced travel expenses;
• ASR's quality assurance engineering/inspection personnel are selected to meet or exceed the requirements of every customer assignment;
• ASR management and all its professionals are committed to total customer satisfaction;
• ASR personnel are intimately familiar with applicable commercial and industrial specifications and standards;
• ASR ensures smooth transition of all new quality assurance support service programs to the complete satisfaction of the customer.