|
API Spec Q1 limits the sections of the standard that are applicable for exclusion (refer to the API Q1 Specification). For eligibility of these exclusions, the Applicant or Licensed Organization shall provide a written justification for the exclusion(s) and identify the exclusion(s) in the Quality Manual.
The Organization must develop and maintain a Design Package(s) to demonstrate compliance with design and development requirements. The API Monogram Licensing Program requires the selection of a design package for review during an audit. To determine what qualifies as a design package, please follow these guidelines:
The Design Package therefore is a detailed plan for a product(s) which includes all the background documents, applicable API standards, and the instructions, procedures, specifications, drawings, routers, travelers, checklists, process sheets and changes to these documents necessary to produce the product(s) at the manufacturing location. Such documentation shall include, but not be limited to, design plans, input elements, output elements, evidence of review/verification and evidence of validation.
Since the purpose of the API Monogram Program is to consistently, objectively, and reliably identify organizations who are capable of producing products that comply with API specifications, the organization shall have a complete design package, as well as procedures that provide instructions and requirements on how to develop a design, unless eligible for design exclusion. Refer to API Advisory 6 - Design and Development Exclusion.
The applicant is required to maintain at least one copy of the official, current edition of the English language version of the API Spec Q1 and API Product Specification(s) under which it is seeking licensure. The product specification(s) must be the version of the document that is published by API, distributed by API or an authorized distributor. Translating API publications without express written prior permission from API is a copyright violation. If a translated version is not available through an authorized redistributor, contact API using the API Monogram/APIQR Contact Form. API will take the necessary actions to have the document translated.
Technical requirements identified in the current English language version of the document shall be the only acceptable manufacturing criteria to be used by the applicant.
Advisory #9: Recognition and Authority of Published Standards
Intellectual Property Rights and Usage Policy
Purchase API Standards & Software
The API Monogram is an API registered certification mark. Through the API Monogram Program, licensed manufacturers are given the authority to apply the mark to equipment that meets API product specification requirements and has been manufactured within a quality management system that meets API Spec Q1.
Licensee agrees that use of the API Monogram on the products shall constitute a representation and warranty by Licensee to API and to the purchasers of the Licensee’s products that the products conform to the applicable standards, specifications and requirements of API.
The API Monogram Mark is a protected trademark that is authorized for use by API through legally enforceable program requirements via contract agreements with the Licensees. The mark can only be applied to new conforming product that is manufactured by the licensed organization at the licensed facility.
|