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APQP - Advanced
Product Quality Planning

Ensuring perfection from concept to customer

Introduction

Advanced Product Quality Planning is a disciplined process to ensure that a structured sequence of activities is
completed.These activities will ensure that an organisation can provide a quality product, on time, at the lowest cost
and which exactly meets the customers specific requirements. APQP also provides a standardised means of
communicating product quality planning requirements internally, between your customers and yourself, and also
between yourself and your supply base.
This programme covers the generic process, principles and philosophy of APQP by working through each of the 5
phases in the APQP model.You will identify the inputs and outputs, learn how the outputs from each phase become
the inputs to the next phase, and how the total control plan captures the relevant data and enables continuous process
improvement to be achieved.

Programme Content
product quality planning cycle
early identification of changes, avoidance of late changes cross functional team
emphasis customer & supplier involvement setting up control plans & timing plans review the integration & requirement
The Strategic Objective - the roles, responsibilities ___ & involvement of staff in relation to quality
& the level of involvement of sub contractors
of APQP in QS-9000.

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 dependant on the successful completion of
phases 1 & 2 l 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

Quality Planning
Cycle

F..dback Ass.ssm.nt
and Corr.ctiv. Action
Product &
Proc.ss
Validation

Plan
and
D.fin.

Product D.sign
and D.v.lopm.nt
Proc.ss D.sign
and D.v.lopm.nt

identifying outputs & links to customer expectations & future

product programmes. Control Plan Methodology - discuss
the use of control plan & relevant data required to construct &
determine control plan parameters stress the importance of
the control plan in the continuous improvement cycle.

Introduction
Product Quality Planning Cycl.
Programm.
Approval

Conc.pt
Initiation/Approval

Prototyp.

Pilot

Launch

PLANNING
PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVEL.
PROCESS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
PRODUCT & PROCESS VALIDATION
PRODUCTION
FEEDBACK ASSESSMENT & CORRECTIVE ACTION
PLAN &
DEFINE
PROGRAMME

PRODUCT DESIGN
& DEVELOPMENT
VERIFICATION

PROCESS DESIGN
& DEVELOPMENT
VERIFICATION

PRODUCT
& PROCESS
VALIDATION

FEEDBACK
ASSESSMENT &
CORRECTIVE ACTION