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Methodologies/Tools That the Auditor Should Be Familiar With
Published in D. H. Stamatis, Automotive Audits, 2021
APQP serves as a guide in the development process and also a standard way to share results between suppliers and automotive companies. APQP specifies three phases: Development, Industrialization, and Product Launch. Through these phases 23 main topics are monitored. These 23 topics are completed before the production is started. They cover such aspects as: design robustness, design testing and specification compliance, production process design, quality inspection standards, process capability, production capacity, product packaging, product testing and operator training plan, among other items. In other words, one may characterize the APQP as a methodology that focuses on (a) up-front quality planning and (b) determining if customers are satisfied by evaluating the output and supporting continual improvement. It does this by evaluating progress through five phases, which are as follows: Plan and define programProduct design and development verificationProcess design and development verificationProduct and process validation and production feedbackLaunch, assessment, and corrective action.
Quality Engineering and Methods
Published in Jong S. Lim, Quality Management in Engineering, 2019
Figure 5.21 explains the overall APQP process19 that suppliers should follow, and the SQE team should evaluate the process and the activities of suppliers through APQP milestones. During the APQP activity, relevant quality engineering tools that we discussed previously should be appropriately used: QFD, D-FMEA, FTA, P-FMEA, and DOE.
Experience-Based Product Inspection Planning for Industry 4.0
Published in Cybernetics and Systems, 2021
Muhammad Bilal Ahmed, Farhat Majeed, Cesar Sanin, Edward Szczerbicki
These modules interact with the system’s DDNA knowledge repository, in which is held experiential knowledge acquired from previous projects. Integrated SVPD modules are able to provide confirmation that the processes involved in the production of a given product are ecologically sustainable, and can be undertaken in an existing facility. These modules are also fully capable of supporting the five phases of Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) methodology, which is a framework for developing products or services that are able to satisfy customer requirements, and has been widely used in the aerospace, automobile, and medical device manufacturing industries. The five phases of APQP are shown in Figure 4 (Stamatis 2001; Stamatis 2018). Working mechanism of DKM module and MCAPP module was presented in our previous works (Ahmed et al. 2020a; Ahmed et al. 2019; Bilal Ahmed et al., 2019), this research presents the working algorithm of PIP module of the developed system.
Investigating critical criteria for supplier quality development
Published in International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management, 2018
Khosrow Noshad, Anjali Awasthi
Training and implementation of quality tools is the most common approach for supplier development and improvement. According to Monczka, Trent, and Handfield (1998), a purchaser may provide training on: 1) implementation and training of total quality management and improvement tools. 2) statistical quality control techniques 3) integration of quality in the design of products and processes to reduce variability, and 4) problem solving techniques. A formal process defining the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) could be used. A tracking system can be put in place to monitor the stages of APQP process to facilitate communication between the supplier and the customer. Best practices from Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) could be used to ensure that all high risk failure modes have effective actions regardless of whether or not a solution is envisioned by the team. Training could also be provided on problem solving using team approach and structured problem solving tools and methods. Quality improvement activities for suppliers without a continuous improvement program cannot be successful. These practices ensure suppliers can handle problem solving, non-conformance, complaints, etc. effectively (Erasmus, 2006).
Assessment of Factory Fabrication Considerations for Nuclear Microreactors
Published in Nuclear Technology, 2023
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude, Yasir Arafat, Chandrakanth Bolisetti, Botros Hanna, Joshua Belvedere, James Blocker, Brandon Cooper, Shanda Harmon, Dan McCarthy
Finally, the entire design and manufacture process is typically tied together into a framework referred to as APQP. This is commonly used in nonnuclear manufacturing sectors and draws parallels to the current quality control regulations in the nuclear industry. It consists of a standardized set of quality requirements that enable suppliers and manufacturers to design a product that meets all necessary quality and reliability requirements. APQP ensures the quality strategy is clearly understood and translated into requirements, technical specifications, and special characteristics. Additional information on the framework is provided in Sec. A.VI.