1. Advanced Product Quality Planning
(1-Day Workshop)

About the Program:

APQP is a one or two day course to help engineers, technical personnel, managers and others set up a process to develop a new product or service. APQP is beneficial to the participants by demonstrating to them that there is a correct method for development activities that will achieve success.

Learning Objectives:

• Why QS 9000 and the APQP Process will increase your ability to earn a profit.
• What actions must take place during the five stages of the APQP Process.
• How problem solving becomes addictive and how to break this habit.
• What quality tools and techniques must be used to make APQP work.
• Why team work among all relevant stakeholders is essential for APQP success.
• Why "The Voice of the client" is important--but isn’t the whole story.
• Why APQP is necessary to compete in world markets.
• How APQP and Quality Function Deployment (QFD) are alike.
• How APQP and QS 9000 go beyond prevention and target improvement.
• How Control Plans translate Advanced Product Quality Planning into profit generating action.
• How the APQP Process works and what the Fundamentals of APQP are.
• How Control Plans and the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle are related.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone involved in managing, planning, designing, or implementing new product designs and corresponding manufacturing processes.

Features & Benefits:

• Provides an overview of the planning process and APQP objectives.
• Presents the timing of deliverables, along with their associated information inputs and outputs.
• Special attention is paid to QFD, FMEA and PPAP requirements.