1. Process engineering
Quality controls

2. Objectives
Advanced product quality planning (APQP) is a system used for designing a quality product that meets the customers needs.
APQP can be applied to any industry.
Its purpose is to produce a quality plan which supports the development of a product or service that will satisfy the customer.

3. Why use APQP? The APQP assists with: Understanding the customer needs
Determine customer needs and translate into product characteristics and requirements.
Proactive feedback and corrective action
Provides other feedback for similar projects with the objective of developing solutions for potential failures.
Ensuring that the design is within your process capabilities
This brings the processes under statistical control and ensures that your manufacturing process can meet customer requirements and quantities.

4. Why use APQP? The APQP assists with:
Identify and analyse potential failure modes
This uses failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) to solve potential failures.
Verification and validation of design process and product
This is testing to assure that the design output meet design input requirements.

5. Why use APQP? The APQP assists with: Conduct reviews
These are formal reviews carried during the development of a product to assure it meets the specified requirements.
Control special or critical characteristics
Special/critical characteristics are identified and the process is assessed to assure it can meet the requirements. A control plan is prepared to indicate how this will be achieved.

6. Phases of APQP The advanced quality planning process consists of:
four phases
five major activities
ongoing feedback
corrective actions.

7. Phases of APQP
The Plan define program phase is made up of steps which include:
Define goals
Reliability and quality goals
Preliminary bill of materials
Preliminary process flow
Preliminary listing of special product and process characteristics
Product assurance plan.

8. Phases of APQP
The Product design and development verification phase is made up of steps which include:
Design FMEA
DFMA
Design verification
Design reviews
Prototype build
Engineering drawings
Engineering specifications
Material specifications
Drawing specification changes
New equipment, tooling and facilities requirements
Special product and process characteristics
Prototype control plan
Gauges and testing equipment requirements.

9. Phases of APQP
The Process design and development verification phase is made up of steps which include:
Packaging standards
Product and quality process systems review
Process flow chart
Floor plan layout
Characteristics matrix
Process FMEA
Pre launch control plan
Process instructions
Measurements systems analysis plan
Preliminary process capability study plan
Packaging specifications.

10. Phases of APQP
The Product and process validation phase is made up of process steps, which include:
Production trial run
Measurement systems evaluation
Preliminary process capability study
Production part approval
Production validation testing
Packaging evaluation
Production control plan
Quality planning sign-off.

12. Summary

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