QA/QC
QA/QC Services
Boiler experts overseeing the work while it happens.
BSI QA/QC personnel are former welders, boilermakers, supervisors, and QCs. They have done the work they now oversee. That is why they catch what others miss, and why the work gets done right the first time instead of being found and redone later.
They stay with the work in the field for the entire outage. When something is wrong they say so the moment they see it, standing at the joint, not in a report the mill reads the following week.
The work they cover runs across capital projects, general maintenance, BSI-managed projects, and punchlist follow-up. That last part carries real weight: QA/QC makes sure work a contractor calls complete really is. Sometimes it is a standalone assignment, sometimes it runs alongside a BSI inspection, and either way the mill gets its own experienced eyes on the contractor with reporting in writing every day.
Scope
Inspectors find the issues. QA/QC makes sure they get fixed correctly.
A BSI inspection finds and documents every issue in the unit, and produces the punchlist. QA/QC is the other half of that: making sure each issue is repaired correctly. Two different jobs, and mills often buy both.
See boiler inspection servicesWhat is covered
What BSI QA/QC covers.
- Field oversight for the whole outage
- BSI is with the work from the start of the outage to the end of it, so the person who watched a repair go in is still there when it is tested.
- Weld and fit-up surveillance
- Joint preparation, fit-up, and welding watched against the procedure by people who have run the bead themselves. Problems get caught at the joint, before there are two hundred more like it.
- Hold point verification
- Hold points are identified up front and verified before the work moves past them. Nothing gets covered up that still needed to be seen.
- Immediate issue identification
- Problems are raised the moment they are seen. The contractor hears it at the joint and the mill hears it the same hour. Nothing waits for a report.
- Daily written reporting
- A report every day: what was done, what was checked, what is open, and what needs a decision from the mill.
- Capital projects and maintenance work
- A rebuild, routine maintenance, or a job BSI is already managing. QA/QC steps into the same role on all of them, the mill's own eyes on the contractor's work.
- Punchlist follow-through
- QA/QC works the punchlist item by item. Anything a contractor reports complete is checked against the unit and confirmed actually complete, not taken on faith, and the mill hears where every item stands many times per shift.
- Final acceptance support
- Walking the completed work against the scope and the hold point record so the mill can accept it with documentation behind the decision.
How BSI works
Three steps, every assignment.
Define quality requirements and hold points
Before the work starts we agree on what is being checked, against what standard, and where the work stops for verification.
Oversee execution in the field
BSI personnel are with the crew for the duration. Work is watched as it happens, questions get answered where they come up, and problems get raised on the spot.
Report daily and close out with documentation
A written report every day the job runs, and a closeout package at the end that records what was verified and how.
Why BSI
Why mills put BSI on the work.
People who have done the work themselves
Former welders, boilermakers, supervisors, and QCs. They know what a shortcut looks like from the inside, which is why they catch what others miss and why it gets done right the first time.
Issues raised the moment they are seen
A problem called out at the joint costs a rework. The same problem found in a report next week costs an outage day. Ours get called out at the joint.
On the job through the entire outage, until successful hydro
BSI QA/QC personnel are on the job through the entire outage, and most stay until a successful hydro. The people who watched every repair go in are the ones still standing there when the unit is pressed.
Need eyes on the work?
Tell us the scope and the outage window. We will tell you what QA/QC coverage would look like and who would be on it.