Advanced Quality Planning
Advanced Quality Planning is a process step to collect information on existing issues of quality and production. This information is collected to develop counter-measures so that similar problems can be avoided with future products. Advanced Quality Planning is a team process that depends on communication and planning. The process requires the involvement of the manufacturing, quality and supplier engineering departments.
APQP Advanced Product Quality Planning
Phase 1
Plan & Define Programme - determining customer needs, requirements & expectations using tools such as QFD review the entire quality planning process to enable the implementation of a quality programme how to define & set the inputs & the outputs.
Phase 2
Product Design & Development - review the inputs & execute the outputs, which include FMEA, DFMA, design verification, design reviews, material & engineering specifications.
Phase 3
Process Design & Development - addressing features for developing manufacturing systems & related control plans, these tasks are dependent on the successful completion of phases 1 & 2 execute the outputs.
Phase 4
Product & Process Validation - validation of the selected manufacturing process & its control mechanisms through production run evaluation outlining mandatory production conditions & requirements identifying the required outputs.
Phase 5
Launch, Feedback, Assessment & Corrective Action - focuses on reduced variation & continuous improvement identifying outputs & links to customer expectations & future product programmes.
Control Plan Methodology
discusses use of control plan & relevant data required to construct & determine control plan parameters stresses the importance of the control plan in the continuous improvement cycle.
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PPAP Production Part Approval Process:
The Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) outlines the methods used for approval of production and service commodities, including bulk materials, up to and including part submission warrant in the Advanced Quality Planning process. The purpose of the PPAP process is to ensure that suppliers of components comply with the design specification and can run consistently without affecting the customer line and improving the quality systems. PPAP ensures that you will achieve the first time quality and will lower down the cost of quality.
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APQP ( Advanced Product Quality Planning )
Advanced Product Quality Planning is a quality framework used to develop products in industry, particularly the automotive industry, and is quite similar to the concept of Design For Six Sigma (DFSS). According to the AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group), the purpose of APQP is "to produce a product quality plan which will support development of a product or service that will satisfy the customer." The PQP process is described in the AIAG manual 810-358-3003.
APQP ( Advanced Product Quality Planning ) focuses on:
APQP ( Advanced Product Quality Planning ) consists of four phases:
APQP ( Advanced Product Quality Planning ) also consists of five major activities:
Ongoing feedback assessment and corrective action is an integral part of these phases and activities.
The APQP ( Advanced Product Quality Planning ) process has seven major elements:
PPAP ( Production Part Approval Process )
The PPAP ( Production Part Approval Process ) provides an approach to approval of products and services. This includes bulk materials and part submission warrant in the Advanced Quality Planning process. The objective of the PPAP is to ensure that suppliers of components comply with the design specification and can show documentary evidence that the level can be maintained during the life of the product.
PPAP approval is required: