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APQP - Advanced Product Quality Planning Implementation and Improvement

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CTU Day 1: Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) & Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)

Seminar Content

This seminar addresses all the elements of Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) and defines it as a process in your organization. It provides an overview of the 5 phases of APQP and how it is managed as a process. It also teaches Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Design Verification Planning.

This seminar includes program management and status reporting for APQP.

Who Should Attend

  • Program Managers
  • Product Mangers
  • Quality Managers
  • Design Engineers
  • APQP Team Members

Recommended Training and/or Experience

Basic understanding of your organization and its processes

Seminar Materials

Seminar manual and workbook.

Seminar Goals

Provide a hands-on approach to APQP and its relationship to program management and status reporting to give the knowledge and skills needed to introduce new products and processes smoothly

Seminar Outline

  • Automotive Requirements
  • Alignment of processes
  • AIAG APQP Model
  • APQP Phases
  • Product Life Cycle
  • Concurrent Engineering
  • Program Management
  • Timing Plans (Gantt Chart)
  • 5 phases of APQP
  • Objectives
  • Deliverables
  • Program Management
  • Responsibility
  • Design FMEA Objectives
  • Metrics
  • Skills & Tools
  • Inputs
  • Analytical Approach
  • Failure Modes
  • Effects
  • Severity
  • Special Characteristics
  • Linkages to Process Control
  • Cause
  • Occurrence
  • Design controls
  • Detection
  • Risk
  • DVP&R

Course Sequence: CTUAPQPDFMEA


APQP or Advanced Product Quality Planning is a structured method of defining & establishing the steps necessary to ensure that a product satisfies the customer. Effective product quality planning depends on a company’s top management’s commitment to the effort required in meeting customer specifications. more...


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