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APQP Advanced Product Quality Planning - Tightly-focused quality planning


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Benefits of APQP:


The goal of APQP is to use prescribed steps to successfully manage projects from the placing of an order to the start of series production. According to the demands of QS9000, more and more of the responsibility to professionally plan, carry out and document projects falls on the interdisciplinary working groups and project management of a company.


Our Range of Services: audit-consulting-training

We will train your staff in APQP methods. You can decide whether the course is held in your local facility or in a perfectly equipped conference center (to keep the daily routines at bay). We can also perform APQP in your company as a Consulting Service In this case our experts will explain the needs to you and your staff in a step by step manner covering all needed activities and parameters. This way, you and your staff will also gain practical experience in performing APQP in your company.


Content:


The purpose of APQP is to produce a product quality plan which will support development of a product or service that will satisfy the customer. This planning process is ideally performed by cross-functional teams. The participants will learn the basic knowledge and understanding of project and documentation workflows.

- Conditions for project management, the project nomination letter
- Project tracking, project team
- Ressource planning and communication
- Completion of a small sample project within your company
- Product and process development
- Internal projects and control plans

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