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CTU Day 3: Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

Seminar Content

This one day seminar addresses the purpose of PPAP as the culmination of the APQP process and provides a detailed examination of Production Part Approval Process requirements. We will focus on determining if all customer engineering, design record, and specification requirements are properly understood, and that the production process has the potential to meet these requirements during an actual production run at the quoted production rate.

This seminar is consistent with the AIAG - DCX, Ford GM manual PPAP, 4th edition.

Who Should Attend

• Program managers
• Design, Quality, and Manufacturing engineers
• Persons who have direct responsibility for preparation, assembly or review of PPAP components or packages.
• Auditors and those responsible for subcontractor PPAP documentation.

Recommended Training and/or Experience

A general knowledge of quality systems is required.

Seminar Materials

Seminar manual and workbook.

Seminar Goals

• Understand the requirements and timing impacts of the PPAP.
• Provide examples and lessons learned for use in the hands-on application needed for successful PPAP submission.

Seminar Outline

• PPAP Class Overview
• Alignment with TS16949 and APQP
• Key changes from 3rd Edition
• PPAP Definitions, Scope and Purpose
• Requirement of Submission
• Submission Levels
• Part Submission Status
• Record Retention
• Record & Master Sample Retention
• PPAP Process Requirements
• Part Submission Warrant
• Key changes to PSW from 3rd Edition
• How to Audit/Review PPAP

Course Sequence: CTUPPAP