Can any of you help folk in the UK help with a benchmarking exercise?


We are a “design responsible” manufacturer of fasteners to the automotive industry, and we have used the QS APQP system for years. Currently we are reviewing / revamping our New Product Realisation / APQP process.

Unfortunately its the same people looking at the same process and were not seeing any breakthroughs in thinking.

Have any of you got a "fast, easily managed" APQP process (suitable for TS16949) that we could benchmark against?

You help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

There's got to be someone in the UK prepared to boast about the system.

Come on guy's help me out on this one.:bigwave:

I know it's technically 'too late' to help, but... Any thoughts, anyone?

I am also looking for some kind of new APQP check list.The one that we are useing is ackward and not very user friendly. If anyone has one I would really appreciate it.

Thanks Dave

Dave
Welcome to the cove

Please post yours here and we can discuss it.
There are some here for example this FORD APQP Check List (http://elsmar.com/Forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2741) (an Excel file).

Search around in the attachments and this forum for some more examples

I know this is a bit late but I posted an apqp timeline with definitions in the apqp section.