WHAT IS THE INSPECTION AND TEST PLAN (ITP)

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This article is to provide a brief description of quality plan and inspection &
testing plan (ITP) for equipment and materials to be procured by
CONTRACTOR for Oil & Gas EPCI Project.
What is Quality Plan?
Quality plan is document (3.7.2) specifying which procedures (3.4.5) and
associated resources shall be applied whom and when to a specific project
(3.4.3), product (3.4.2), process (3.4.1) or contract. (ISO 9000:2005 3.7.5)

A document specifying the processes of the quality management system

(including the product realization processes) and the resources to be applied
to a specific product, project or contract can be referred to as a quality plan.
(ISO 9001:2008 Clause 7.1 Planning of product realization , NOTE 1)
Content of the quality plan
The examples and lists provided in ISO 10005-2005 standard clause 5 should
not be considered comprehensive or limiting in any way.

The quality plan for a specific case should cover the topics examined below as
appropriate. Some topics in the following list may not applicable, for example
where design and development are not involved.

o General
o Scope
o Quality plan input
o Quality objectives
o Management responsibilities
o Control of documents and data
o Control of records
o Resources
o Requirements
o Customer communication
o Design and development
o Purchasing
o Production and service provision
 o Identification and traceability
o Customer property
o Preservation of product
o Monitoring and measurement
o Audits
Read more : [ISO 10005 Secod Edition-2005-Internal Standard-Quality
Management Systems-Guidelines for Quality Plans] – this standard provides
guidelines for the development, review, acceptance, application and revision
of quality plans.
A preliminary Project Quality Plan (PQP)
During Project Tender/Bidding Stage, TENDERER shall submit a preliminary
Project Quality Plan describing, in outline, the Quality Management system
TENDERER intends to implement for each phase of the WORK.

What is Inspection and Test Plan (ITP) ?

An Inspection and Test Plan (ITP) or test plan is a document detailing a

systematic approach to testing a system or product (e.g. material, component,
machine, package, software, etc) such as a visual inspection, dimension
inspection, welding inspection, function test, factory acceptance test, etc. and
participation of all parties.
Why do we need to make a test plan?

Guarantee the product quality and ensure the product function achieved the
requirement of design.

ISO 9001:2008 Clause 7.4.3 Verification of purchased product requires that

the organization shall establish and implement the inspection or other
activities necessary for ensuring that purchased product meets specified
purchase requirements.

Where the organization or its customer intends to perform verification at the

supplier’s premises, the organization shall state the intended verification
arrangements and method of product release in the purchasing information.

Typical Inspection and Test Plan

For EPCI Project, each Vendor shall complete the Contractor/Company
approved format of Inspection and Test plan and shall provide with his bid
proposal as an indication of type of test performed by him to access the
quality system. On placement of order, VENDOR shall formally submit the
Inspection and Test Plan as part of Vendor Document Submission for
CONTRACTOR ‘s approval.

Project Quality Control Plan or Inspection & Test Plan ( ITPs ) of major
Vendors and Sub-contractors will be submitted by Contractor to COMPANY
for approval in order to include their level of involvement during the
implementation of the Inspection Plans.

How to make a test plan?

Firstly we consider what function need to test and what function we can
ignore, we should optimize the process and method to make the process more
efficient and simple.

The test plan for manufacture is different from debugging test because the
production test must be appropriate for mass production, we need this
process is efficient and automatic testing method.

The hardware test is to verify the feasibility of the design, but production test is
to verify the product performance and quality whether influenced by material
and processing technology.

Depending on the product and the responsibility of the organization to which

the test plan applies, a test plan may include one or more of the following:

o Design Verification or Compliance test – to be performed during the

development or approval stages of the product, typically on a small sample of
units.
o Manufacturing or Production test – to be performed during preparation or
assembly of the product in an ongoing manner for purposes of performance
verification and quality control.
o Acceptance or Commissioning test – to be performed at the time of delivery or
installation of the product.
o Service and Repair test – to be performed as required over the service life of the
product.
 o Regression test – to be performed on an existing operational product, to verify
that existing functionality didn’t get broken when other aspects of the
environment are changed (e.g., upgrading the platform on which an existing
application runs).
A complex system may have a high level test plan to address the overall
requirements and supporting test plans to address the design details of
subsystems and components.

Test plan document formats can be as varied as the products and

organizations to which they apply.

There are three major elements that should be described in the test plan:

o Test Coverage,
o Test Methods, and
o Test Responsibilities.
Test coverage
Test coverage in the test plan states what requirements will be verified during
what stages of the product life. Test Coverage is derived from design
specifications and other requirements, such as safety standards or regulatory
codes, where each requirement or specification of the design ideally will have
one or more corresponding means of verification.

Test methods
Test methods in the test plan state how test coverage will be implemented.
Test methods may be determined by standards, regulatory agencies, or
contractual agreement, or may have to be created new. Test methods also
specify test equipment to be used in the performance of the tests and
establish pass/fail criteria. Test methods used to verify hardware design
requirements can range from very simple steps, such as visual inspection, to
elaborate test procedures that are documented separately.

Test responsibilities
Test responsibilities include what organizations will perform the test methods
and at each stage of the product life. This allows test organizations to plan,
acquire or develop test equipment and other resources necessary to
implement the test methods for which they are responsible. Test
responsibilities also includes, what data will be collected, and how that data
will be stored and reported (often referred to as “deliverables”). One outcome
of a successful test plan should be a record or report of the verification of all
design specifications and requirements as agreed upon by all parties.