What is APQP?

What is Advanced Product Quality Planning?

APQP stands for Advanced Product Quality Planning. It is a disciplined process for suppliers to ensure they are capable of designing product and/or manufacturing systems that will meet their automotive customers’ requirements. It outlines a process for introduction of a new product while minimizing risk for you and your customer.

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APQP stands for Advanced Product Quality Planning

It is how a new or revision to an existing product is designed, developed, manufactured and controlled.

APQP is

A process, not an event
Structured methodology
Assures customer satisfaction

The output of APQP is

The Continual Improvement of Product Realization.

APQP is one of five Core Tools

Application

Existing Products – After product launch, process monitoring and review is used

as a catalyst for continual improvement
to prevent defects
as a means for enforcing plant-floor discipline for controlling characteristic variation

New Products – For new products, the existing process monitoring and review knowledge base

acts as an input to the Product Development process
brings the operator into the initial phases of product and process design

Transfer Products – Moving product manufacturing from one site to another

Benefits

Resources are directed toward customer satisfaction
Early identification of required changes
Changes close to or after product launch are avoided
Process can successfully accommodate unavoidable changes
A quality product is provided on time at the lowest cost
Basis for continual improvement

Phases

APQP includes Manufacturing Process Design & Review and cannot be excluded from the Quality Management System

Management Review

Inputs

results of audits
customer feedback
process performance and product conformity

APQP Status – Measurements at specific stages

status of preventive and corrective actions
follow-up actions from previous management reviews
planned changes that could affect the Quality Management System
recommendations for improvement
Analysis of actual and potential field-failures and their impact on quality, safety or the environment

Core Tools Training - Purchase Options

Buy a copy of AIAG Standards:

APQP-2 – (2008) – Advanced Product Quality Planning and Control Plan
IAQG Core Tools Forms on CD – 2008
Supplier Forms for APQP, PPAP, FMEA, etc., Version 5.0

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