Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) Process:

This stage of process starts after the design stage is over or is handing over to manufacturing. The key operation performed from the process till the production are as following:

• Design for manufactureability and Assembly (DFMA)
• Identifying the number of parts and part numbers for each process
• Process Flow Diagram (PFD)
• Process Instructions
• Process Failure mode and Effect analysis (PFMEA)
• Production Control Plan (PCP)
• Inspection instructions
• Capability Study Plan
• Audit
• New tooling requirement
• Identifying new fixtures
• New gauge requirements
• Time and motion study
• Run at rate
• Lean Manufacturing
• Standardized work flow
• Standardized work instructions