Technical Courses: Core Courses
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) is a methodology that encompasses all the activities and processes needed between customer concept and product launch. The business areas affected are technical sales, product engineering, reliability engineering, process engineering, and manufacturing operations. The purpose of APQP methods is to enable companies to reduce concept-to-customer time when creating new products and maintaining a high quality level with minimal launch difficulties.
COURSE CONTENT
Introduction
- The Organization as a System
- What is APQP
- The Role of APQP in Product Development
Integrating APQP and Product Development
- Outline of APQP Tools & the Product Development Process
Quality Function Deployment
- QFD & The Kano Model
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- Design FMEA and QFD
- DFMEA and Process FMEA
Design of Experiments
- A Designed Experiment
- Requirements for Successful Experiments
Statistical Process Control
- Statistical Thinking
- Process Capability & Capability Studies
- Machine Capability
Control Plans
- Developing the Control Plan
- Types of Process Controls

