580 words, 2.1 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

APQP 1 big thing: Coordinate and oversee the development, implementation and maintenance of Quality Management.

The big picture: Check that your process reviews manufacturing processes, determining where improvements could be implemented in terms of product quality to contribute towards the success of your organization.

Why it matters: Make sure the Quality Engineer is responsible for APQP deliverables, monitoring and reporting of quality performance, participation in corrective actions relative to quality concerns, and maintenance of (internal) customer relationships relative to plant quality performance.

What we’re hearing: “Partner with product design teams, manufacturing, procurement, and (internal) customer service stakeholders to share ownership for the quality systems and ensure compliance and other relevant standards.“, Supplier Quality Platform Specialist

Be smart: Ensure you test and inspect products against performance and integrity criteria to ensure product quality and reliability, and to determine the suitability of product release.

What to watch: Review and interpret customer, regulatory, and internal requirements into program and product specific quality planning and procedures for use in design, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, test, inspection, and (internal) customer delivery.

State of play: Guarantee your staff is responsible for determining that all requirements are met by the supplier for your most challenging new or changed products and the execution of the Production Part Approval Processes and the Advanced Product Quality Planning processes, including elements of Early Supplier Engagement and Zero Defects Mentality, for related Value Package Change Request and medium to high risk Value Package Introduction projects.

On the flip side: Support preparation, distribution, and communicates periodic Supplier performance status and risk assessments to regional leadership with priority until selected supplier reaches stability and can be handed off to Supplier Sustainability team.

Meanwhile: Confirm that your group creates maps and information products, updates and maintains existing map collections and applies advanced cartographic techniques for map production.

Between the lines: Invest in the development of new and update of current training courses and support the manufacturing engineering and design engineering functions in the development of General PPAP Overview training, DFMEA and PFMEA training.

Under the hood: Establish that your process directs, maintains, and enforces the safety program for the maintenance department; reviews safety records to uphold standards of maximum safety for all maintenance technicians.

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How it works: Lead, plan, organize, and participate in the APQP design and development stages for new products or products with significant engineering changes, insuring that (internal) customer requirements are met, using the APQP plan.

The bottom line: Warrant that your group is responsible for Continuous Improvement projects to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the facilities maintenance processes, key performance metrics, and overall cost savings.

What’s next: Maintain supplier vigilance through key process and product quality metrics (KPI) to assure the quality of materials/services provided and compliance with specifications and regulations.

ICYMI: Work closely with the Focused Factory Teams and the functional organizations to ensure all phases of the (internal) customer life cycle, from early (internal) customer involvement through post-delivery support, meeting the requirements for mission success.

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544 words, 2.0 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

APQP 1 big thing: Perform detailed technical (internal) customer presentations based on input from higher level Application Engineers.

The big picture: Drive high impact strategic procurement initiatives with the goal of driving substantial value realization efforts in all forms revenue generation, cost reductions and productivity improvements while maintaining or improving product quality and supplier service levels.

Why it matters: Create, maintain, and execute test scenarios (unit, integration, regression) using your test management tool to support verification of all (internal) customer requirements (configuration, customization, security roles, reports, interfaces, workflow, etc.

Between the lines: Participate in the APQP and PPAP activities to determine appropriate use of existing and new measurement systems during new tool or process design and startup.

What they’re saying: “Conduct market assessments, including evaluation of (internal) customer base and competitive forces in the market place, demand side analysis and planning, power supply, risk assessment, and business planning.“, Quality Manager, Corporate

The backdrop: Warrant that your operation implements appropriate activities to ensure regulatory compliance and adherence efficiency of the quality system such as: complaint handling, corrective and preventive action, and the internal audit program.

State of play: Promote the use of (internal) customer needed techniques for continuous improvement as Lean, Six Sigma, Poka Yoke, Measurement System Analysis, and Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA).

What we’re hearing: “Ensure your company works closely with Design team on seasonal needs and coordinates with Material team and overseas office to provide options, techniques and support.“, Program Quality Engineer

On the flip side: Guarantee your process plans and prepares PPAP submissions on new products and engineering changes to meet (internal) customer deadlines and (internal) customer specific requirement.

How it works: Facilitate APQP methodologies including: Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Control Plan (APQP); Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Measurement System Analysis (MSA).

Under the hood: Be confident that your personnel maintains and improves product quality by completing product, company, system, compliance, and surveillance audits; investigating (internal) customer complaints; collaborating with other members of management to develop new product and engineering designs, and manufacturing and training methods.

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Yes, but: Search continuously for cost improvement projects related to purchased components which might include supplier change, component design or process modifications, make vs buy analysis, cost reduction workshops.

The bottom line: Guarantee your group participates in department planning, through field/site walkdowns, attend meetings/conference calls, provide budget recommendations and monitor performance for the accomplishment of committed results.

What’s next: Support monthly product quality reviews to detect trends related to hardware issues; Define key objectives/priorities to improve product performance; and report issues, concerns and trends to the Product, Quality, Engineering and Operations organizations.

ICYMI: Observe, maintain, and address all issues with leaders and members of management on product quality, machinery, and supplies to prevent and reduce waste.

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651 words, 2.4 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

APQP 1 big thing: Coordinate, prepare and deliver progress updates to your (internal) customer on project management activities.

The big picture: Lead Quality activities that identify root cause and drive effective corrective action with various functional groups across the organization including R and D, Fabrication, Production, and Distribution targeted to improve the consumer involvement as measured by warranty claim performance.

Why it matters: Support the design of an improved approach to Capability Delivery, using modeling as a tool for capturing system knowledge and requirements decomposition, developing a lifecycle model to enable responsive capability deployment, refactor key subsystems to enable external developers and reduce system impact of software changes, while using automated test to increase product quality confidence and reduce regression test efforts.

How it works: Review and evaluate designs and project activities for compliance with (internal) customer use cases, end-end workflows, industry deployments, guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.

Meanwhile: Perform your organization needs in depth analysis and problem determination/resolution as it relates to trends in areas as Back up, incidents, change orders and system metrics including capacity planning.

Go deeper: Verify that your workforce is responsible for applicable systems related to plant (internal) customer issues as corrective action requests, supplier corrective action requests, nonconforming material reports, etc.

State of play: Secure that your company designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducts product quality tests, performs statistical analysis to assess products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.

The backdrop: Be confident that your group reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with interactive and interface design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and interactive and interface design.

Between the lines: Be sure your staff is ensuring that the timing of the product launch is respected and support for the entire duration of the programme.

What we’re hearing: “Make sure your process monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders by presenting reports defining project progress, problems and solutions.“, MI-Program Manager

What they’re saying: “Make headway so that your process prepares advanced quality planning documents and participates in quality planning activities; including FMEAs, Process Flow Diagrams, Control Charts, and Gage R and R and capability studies.“, Buyer

What to watch: Ensure strong leadership and team building skills are required to manage the Product Assurance team to ensure product quality goals are met, from early design through high-volume production and post-market assessment.

Under the hood: Secure that your strategy reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.

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Top thinkers are using The Art of Service Critical Capabilities Analysis, the guide that’s helping leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

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Be smart: Ensure you deliver unique value by collaboratively and reactively solving (internal) customer problems, providing proactive support advice, contributing to product quality and enhancements and creating self-help assets to broadly reach more (internal) customers.

The bottom line: Make sure the Corporate Quality and Supplier Development Manager is responsible for your (internal) customers and suppliers product quality assurance and control activities.

What’s next: Develop and/or adapt inspection equipment to meet quality control standards, make suggestions with regard to procedures, standards and equipment to facilitate work and maintain product quality.

ICYMI: Safeguard that your workforce develops and establishes quality systems and procedures, inspection plans, quality performance trends, statistical plans, cost estimates and technical quality plans for proposals.

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491 words, 1.8 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

APQP 1 big thing: Coach and mentor quality colleagues in supporting talent and succession planning objectives.

The big picture: Work closely with the Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Field Quality, and Supplier Quality teams to drive root cause identification activities in order to improve product quality through data analysis, corrective action, and preventive measures.

Why it matters: Guarantee your group is involved in developing and documenting process maps and value stream maps for quality and/or lean manufacturing systems and processes.

Between the lines: Oversee that your workforce is accountable for PPAP requirements (including appearance submission) to the specific (internal) customer ensuring specified requirements are met and maintained for subsequent configuration.

Be smart: Communicate with team/shift employees concerning proper operation of equipment, changes in flow rates or processing capabilities, safety concerns, product quality issues and maintenance issues.

Yes, but: Make sure your operation ensures key performance indicators are in place and holds staff accountable to achieve set targets, including production, product quality, and on time shipping.

What to watch: Oversee that your organization promotes proper engineering attitudes of employees for establishment of sound engineering standards and objectives for measuring engineering efficiency results.

State of play: Warrant that your design helps promote organization wide awareness of diversity and inclusion related to your organizations workforce, supplier, capital markets and partnership strategies.

What they’re saying: “Conduct process and product quality assurance audits and assessments to appraise the effectiveness of IT processes, identifying deficiencies, performing analysis of those deficiencies, and developing recommendations to address the deficiencies.“, Quality Supervisor

The backdrop: Check that your company is responsible for ensuring that all other system managers, process owners and supervisors, at the plant site, develop and maintain the part/role in the quality management system.

Under the hood: Manage quality assurance, control processes, and programs by developing, implementing, and administering quality standards and procedures assuring product quality, continual improvement, and (internal) customer satisfaction across 2 distribution center sites 10%.

Top APQP Must Haves

APQP Executives tell us every quarter about their must haves.

Here are their most urgent ones:

Learn the Top Emerging APQP Risks HERE: store.theartofservice.com/APQP-critical-capabilities/

Top thinkers are using The Art of Service Critical Capabilities Analysis, the guide that’s helping leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

This guide will help you plan your roadmap. The Critical Capabilities and Priorities Guide enables leaders to shortlist hundreds of appropriate results, already prioritized.

Get started: store.theartofservice.com/APQP-critical-capabilities/

The bottom line: Safeguard that your company is responsible for total product quality (raw material testing, in process testing, finished product testing, (internal) customer complaint resolution related to product quality and returned goods analysis).

What’s next: Make sure the Commercial Coordinator also facilitates communication with the (internal) customer as it relates to quoting new business and maintaining existing business.

ICYMI: Guarantee your organization supervises, coordinates, and evaluates the work of a team of process engineers, and assigns the workload to best achieve project objectives and required timing.

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482 words, 1.8 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

APQP 1 big thing: Responsible to protect organization assets through supporting an effective and consistent preventative maintenance program.

The big picture: Make sure your company applies the principles of product quality planning, evaluation, and control in support of the manufacturing and installation operations of your organization.

Why it matters: Interface so that your organization is ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports.

Go deeper: Make sure your strategy partners with Marketing, Operations, QA and the Supply Chain team to test product quality and identify areas for cost and quality improvement.

State of play: Track and manage the program budget to ensure all financial metrics are met, lead all cost reduction and margin improvement activity where required to meet targets.

Be smart: Participate in the Advanced Product Quality Planning activities to determine appropriate use of existing and new measurement systems during new tool or process design and startup.

Meanwhile: Interface so that your personnel acts as Quality Department liaison with the supplier to investigate quality problems and as a resource to the supplier pertaining to product quality.

Yes, but: Make sure your operation is involved in a disciplined Program Management environment based on logical program task sequencing and the mutual reliance of different functions represented on the team.

On the flip side: Support management in analyzing and implementing initiatives to improve overall performance test process and product quality to enhance the value for end users.

How it works: Make sure the Project Manager (PM) is responsible for in the effective Management of multiple projects through the Product Life Cycle, tracking the progress of projects and report the results.

What we’re hearing: “Interface so that your company is working with (internal) customers and field teams to maintain product quality and support the needs (including sustainment quality engineering and reliability engineering like responsibilities).“, Production Manager

The bottom line: Present information and/or respond to inquiries or complaints from (internal) customers, suppliers, co workers or management and properly deploy departmental resources to solve the issue.

What’s next: Develop APQP (FAIR/PPAP/FMEA/Control Plan) in support of new program launches and develop inspection plans to ensure adherence to (internal) customer specifications.

ICYMI: Liaison so that your group has involvement working in a quality assurance function with OEM and automotive suppliers utilizing the AIAG core requirements: PPAP, APQP, FMEA, MSA, and SPC.

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Trusted by: CAIRE, thyssenkrupp Presta North America LLC, JAC Products, YAZAKI Europe, Hana Technologies, Inc., Serigraph Inc., R&L Spring Company, Hutchinson Fluid Management System, Magna International Inc., Philips, Plastic Omnium, Cyient, Therma-Tru Corporation, EATON, Graham Packaging Company, Neaton Rome, SK Battery America, Dorman Products, PSI Molded Plastics, MAHLE Behr Troy Inc., Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., Pasona N A, Inc., Pridgeon & Clay, BorgWarner, Volvo Group, BOGE Rubber & Plastics, Enersys, Cummins Inc., Solid Power, Vitro, Altra Industrial Motion Corp., GE Aviation, Pace Industries, Caterpillar, Disher, PPG Industries, BAE Systems, Superior Roll Forming LLC, ABB, Tennant Company, BJ CAAS Advisors LLC, Doosan Bobcat, Fuyao Automotive North America Inc, Omnex PlanTech, Global Steering Systems, LLC, Kapco Inc, Collins Aerospace, Mobis Parts America, LLC, L3Harris Technologies, MAHLE, LaborView, Cassavant Machining, SGL Group, NGK Spark Plugs (USA) Inc., Hitachi Astemo Americas, Inc., HUSCO International, Inc., BOEING, Piston Automotive, Reyco Granning, The Timken Company, Dometic Corporation, International Automotive Components, Neumayer Tekfor Rotenburg GmbH, Airbus Final Assembly Line, Autoneum Management AG, Raytheon Missiles & Defense, CNH Industrial, Supplier Management Solutions, LLC, FOX Factory, Inc., Sub-Zero Wolf, Wabtec, Dana Incorporated, Yanfeng Automotive, Tecomet, Inc., MetriCan Stamping, LLC, Continental Structural Plastics, Allison Transmission, Inc., Clarios, M/A Com Technolgy Solutions, ALUDYNE, Graco, Tiffany & Co., La-Z-Boy, P3 group GmbH, ITT, Inc., Dept_PhysLoc, Oerlikon, DAEHAN SOLUTION, Danfoss, Johnson Controls, Schaeffler Group, Lucid Motors, Trillium Interim Staffing Inc, Rivian Automotive, Akwel Cadillac USA Inc, MAT Holdings, Inc, PMG Indiana LLC, thyssenkrupp Automotive Systems of America LLC, Hydro-Gear, Honeywell, Mobis Technical Center of North America, Faurecia, Robertshaw, Brunswick Corporation, Electromac, Proper Group International, Navistar, Inc., Stoneridge, IMMI, KAMAX, SUEZ, Ilmor Engineering Inc., Sun Hydraulics Llc, American Axle & Manufacturing, Peloton, EnPro Industries, US Farathane, LLC, CK Technologies, Cooper Standard, Akoustis, Inc., Continental AG, Motorola Solutions, North American Lighting, Cresttek LLC, Spartan Light Metal Products, Pentair, Airbus Americas, Lear Corporation, Hillphoenix, Nammo Perry, Minth North America, Seraph, Legrand AV, Figeac Aero North America Inc, Techman Sales Inc., Kaman Distribution, JTEKT North America, Intent Design, Avancez, LLC, SL America, Constellium, Kuehne+Nagel, TRIGO Global Quality Solutions, Randstad Engineering, Stanley Black & Decker, MAHLE Engine Components USA, Inc., Automotive Manufacturing Company, Gates Corporation, Flex-N-Gate Corporation, S & C Electric Company, Telamon, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, Cleveland Cliffs Tubular Components, Autoliv United States, Kaiser Aluminium, KBR, Schindler, Stauff USA, Tesla, Topcon Positioning Systems, CWC Textron, a division of Textron, Pall, Triumph Group, CARLING TECHNOLOGIES INC, YAPP USA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC, QMC-EMI Holdings Corporation, Oscar Winski, Ifa Rotorion North America Llc, Fuyao Glass America Inc, HUTCHINSON SEALING SYSTEMS, INC, Ice Industries Inc., AMP – Auto Motive Power, NXP Semiconductors, GEDIA MICHIGAN LLC, KN Platech America Corporation, Bosch Group, MAHLE Behr Dayton L.L.C., AMB Consulting Group, LLC, Kohler, Tenneco Inc., Trialon Corporation, Burgess-Norton Mfg Co, Inc, STS Aviation Group, Karma Automotive, Springfield Remanufacturing Corp, First Sensor AG, Oliver Companies, Engineered Materials Solutions, Fontana, Kelco Industries, Vitesco Technologies, ACTIA Corporation, GE Appliances, PKC Group, Alexandria Extrusion Company, Vehicle Service Group, Incodel, Brose, Amazon.com Services LLC, Challenge Manufacturing Company, Spirit AeroSystems, Grayhill, Inc, Hyliion Inc, Axalta, DESTACO, Transtar Industries Inc, BD, IDEAL Industries, Inc., Cleveland-Cliffs, HRB, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Olympic Steel, Pure Power Technologies Inc, Inovar Inc., Amkor Technology, Inc., Braun Industries, Perlick Corporation, Keter US, Trane Technologies, Generac Power Systems, ZF, Cleveland-Cliffs Tubular Components LLC, Drake Enterprises Inc, Fast Lane Recruitment Group, AGCO, Gentex Corp, Webasto, Linamar Corp, Rebo Lighting & Electronics LLC, Martinrea International Inc., Kimball International, RCM Industries, Inc., SVRC Industries Inc, GKN Aerospace, Harman International, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Coherent, Inc., KAY Manufacturing, Mueller Water Products, Ingersoll Rand, SWJ TECHNOLOGY, LLC, MTD Products Inc, Inteva Products, LLC, Nichols Portland, LLC, Power Solutions International Inc, JNB Machinery / JNB Machining, Griffin Associates, Lincotek Surface Solutions, The Shyft Group, Inc., Shape Corporation, Tekfor Inc, dura auto, Applied Materials Inc.