QMS APQP

Advanced Product
Quality Planning
Projectmanagement and Control Plan

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APQP : Background and requirements

Complete documentation

• APQP was developed within the

automotive industry

• Support of various standards (i. a.

DIN EN ISO 9000, QS 9000,
TS 16949)

• Support of various guidelines (u.a.

VDA)

• Fulfilment of customer requirements

regarding
• Consistent and transparent project planing
• Quality planing including minimization of stand-alone solutions
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QMS APQP
Advanced Product Quality Planning

Effective Project Management and Quality Management

• Systematic approach

• Increase of transparence and on

schedule

• Appealing visualization for intuitive

data capturing

• Supports the merge of product and

process development data

• Ensuring a consistent documentation

of relevant quality data

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Advanced Product Quality Planning schedule
Concept/ Release/Advance Prototype Pilot Serial
Introduction/Release development production production

APQP – Advanced Product Quality Planning Process

flowchart

Project management Project management

Design-/
Planning Planning Process FMEA

Design FMEA
Product-design and -development
Control Plan

Process FMEA
Process design and -development
Inspection plan
Process flowchart, Control plan
Product design and -development
Complaint
Inspection planning management
Serial production

Action
Feedback, evaluation and corrective measurements management

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Project management as an integral part of APQP

Project Management

Project phase,
milestones
Head data
Project plan
(Gantt)
Checklists
Project
information
and indicators
Activities
Parts data Actions incl. Escalation
(Bill of controlling Management
materials)
LOP - Projekt-
Actions

Linking to other CAQ-Data

Management of all relevant documents
Aquisition of project costs
Project history
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QMS APQP : Head data

• Project tree incl. Subprojects

and state

• Head data of the project

together with navigation
inside the project file

• Project Team with contact

data

• Additional: Entering project

information or free actions

• Attachment of documents
• Directly to the head data
• Within the checklists
• Free on the documents tab

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QMS APQP: Checklist

• Tasks inside the checklist

• Colored mark regarding the

state of the checklist

• Actions with
• Responsibilities
• Start date
• End date
• Initiator
• State
• Escalation management

• Colored mark regarding the state of the

action

• Phase model

• Overall action management incl. Notifications (QDX-Mail)

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QMS APQP: Gantt-Chart

• Gantt chart based on checklists

incl. actions and progress

• Direct Access into the checklists

via the Gantt chart

• Import and Export from and to

MS Project possible

• Possibility to compare different

projects (Multiproject-
management)

• Creation of milestones inside the Gantt chart

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QMS APQP: CAQ-Data

• APQP Project management

as a central module allows
the entry to all areas of
Quality Planning

• Adaptions are directly visible

via the integrated Change
Management

• Direct navigation to the involved

modules (FMEA for Product/
Process, Inspections plan,
Complaint etc.)

• Simple navigation between the different

elements of the Quality Planning
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QMS APQP: Process Flow Chart

• Import/Export of Process Flow

Charts out of the master
data e.g. routing, Control Plan
and FMEA

• Manuel creation or extension

of Process Flow Charts

• The existing data can be used

to create Process FMEA,
Control Plan or Inspections
Plan

• Complex visualizations of process flows

are possible

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QMS APQP: Control Plan

• Creation of the Control Plan manually

or based on master data

• Import out of Process-FMEA, Process

Flow Chart or Inspection Plans

• Combination of characteristics and

Process steps via simple copy and paste

• All relevant information are included:

• Characteristics
• Inspection devices
• Control methods
• Response plans
• Attached documents

• Included Reporting e.g. Process Flow Diagram

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Advantages and Benefits

 Appealing visualization for intuitive handling of complex projects

 Project monitoring through automatic indications of deadlines
 Ensuring a consistent documentation of all relevant quality data
 Linkage to other IBS QMS Professional modules such as QMS FMEA, QMS Control Plan
 Integrated Process Flow Chart and Gantt Diagram
 Easy adoption of appointments to the Gantt Chart
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