Core tools| Advanced Product Quality Planning

Core tools| Advanced Product Quality Planning

Purpose

This course aims to train members of product-process design teams in the application of quality-oriented project management. APQP is a structured process with a standardized set of activities/requirements that enables suppliers to design a product that satisfies customers in terms of quality, delivery times, and costs.

Target group

The course is aimed at personnel from the following departments: sales, quality, maintenance, product/process engineering, production, continuous improvement, parts/materials purchasing involved in customer demand analysis, bidding, product-process design, product-process validation, implementation of changes in series production.

Objectives

At the end of this course, we expect participants to be able to:

  • Know the phases and activities of APQP
  • Understand deliverables and their dependencies
  • Create an APQP-based plan, which aims to establish relationships between all persons and activities involved in a program and ensure that all required steps are completed on time, at an acceptable cost, and at the level of quality required by the customer
  • Correctly use APQP forms, including core tools for each phase

Topics

  • Establishing the team
  • Defining the scope
  • Communication
  • Presentation of phases and activities for:
    • Planning and scheduling
    • Product design and development
    • Process design and development
    • Product and process validation
    • Feedback, evaluation, and actions
  • Customer and supplier involvement

Duration of training

  • Online: 6.5 hours (1 day course)
  • On-site: 1 day with breaks included

Training delivery methodology

  • Presentation, examples
  • Debate, discussions
  • Exercises to understand the concepts presented

Trainers

Completion of training

Written test and diploma issuance “Specialist for Quality Management in automotive industry (IATF 16949)” for participants who pass the test.

Bonus

Free consulting for 10 days after completing the online course. At the end of the course, participants will receive free materials—templates to help them implement the concepts taught.

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