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How Effective Are Your APQP Efforts?
Introduction: Beyond the Quality Audit
Your company has now received the industry’s quality award. There is a sigh of relief. All of the activity has finally paid off. You managed to convince the auditor that you have implemented Advanced Quality Planning (APQP).
The question is, were your efforts to implement APQP effective?
All the research material indicates that using APQP will help the company to succeed. Using Advanced Quality Planning will help you to:
- Reduce defects.
- Reduce scrap and rework.
- Reduce engineering changes.
- Facilitate concurrent engineering.
- Improve product reliability, etc.
How can you be sure that you are not just going through the motions? Most people in an organization still believe that APQP is simply a matter of completing some paperwork that the customer wants. It is a part of doing business so it must be done to satisfy the customer.
