APQP Newbie requires guidance

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Ajgupta

#1
Hello,

I am a very green Quality Engineer at a big industrial goods manufacturer. We are in the process of establishing APQP controls and procedures at our plant in OH and i am responsible for a few areas - namely - PFD's, Capability studies for KCC and creating the control plan.

Would greatly appreciate any advise on these areas. I am reviewing the AIAG APQP manual currently. does anyone have any other documentation/information or even tools that can be used for these areas? Maybe a PFD diagram, though I did find a form on the files section out here.

I am more used to creating VSM's. How are the PFD's different from the VSMs? (other than the obvious change of formats)

I thought it'd be best to start this thread now as I can continue with questions when I am actually working on the above areas.

Thanks for your help.

Aj
 
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Jim Wynne

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#2
Hello,

I am a very green Quality Engineer at a big industrial goods manufacturer. We are in the process of establishing APQP controls and procedures at our plant in OH and i am responsible for a few areas - namely - PFD's, Capability studies for KCC and creating the control plan.

Would greatly appreciate any advise on these areas. I am reviewing the AIAG APQP manual currently. does anyone have any other documentation/information or even tools that can be used for these areas? Maybe a PFD diagram, though I did find a form on the files section out here.

I am more used to creating VSM's. How are the PFD's different from the VSMs? (other than the obvious change of formats)

I thought it'd be best to start this thread now as I can continue with questions when I am actually working on the above areas.

Thanks for your help.

Aj
Welcome to the Cove, Aj. :bigwave:

There are a lot of knowledgeable people here who'll be happy to help. As far as flow diagrams go, they can range from just a simple block diagram showing the order of operations for a given process, to very elaborate things that carry a lot more information. I prefer to keep them simple myself, but whatever works for you and your customers is best.
 

Howard Atkins

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#3
Welcome,
The best thing is to review some of the threads in this forum and maybe start with this presentation APQP

The PFD is a simple graphical representation of the stations.
There are a lot of forms and checklists available at the attachments page
Search for APQP
 

Stijloor

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Super Moderator
#4
Hello,

I am a very green Quality Engineer at a big industrial goods manufacturer. We are in the process of establishing APQP controls and procedures at our plant in OH and i am responsible for a few areas - namely - PFD's, Capability studies for KCC and creating the control plan.

Would greatly appreciate any advise on these areas. I am reviewing the AIAG APQP manual currently. does anyone have any other documentation/information or even tools that can be used for these areas? Maybe a PFD diagram, though I did find a form on the files section out here.

I am more used to creating VSM's. How are the PFD's different from the VSMs? (other than the obvious change of formats)

I thought it'd be best to start this thread now as I can continue with questions when I am actually working on the above areas.

Thanks for your help.

Aj
Hello Aj,

Welcome! :)

For the benefit of other (international) Covers, please enlighten us on the following abbreviations:
  • PFD
  • KCC
  • VSM
Thank you.

Stijloor.
 

Stijloor

Staff member
Super Moderator
#6
I am reviewing the AIAG APQP manual currently. does anyone have any other documentation/information or even tools that can be used for these areas?
Hello Aj,

My Fellow Covers have provided you with some excellent sources to get you going on APQP.

A few comments and suggestions.

Appendix B in the APQP manual provides a listing of analytical techniques. It may be good to find out how many of these techniques are already in use at your company. When I teach APQP, I spend time on identifying APQP "equivalent" tools and techniques that the organization already has in place. Sometimes we get too wrapped up in the terminology only to find out later that we're talking about the same things.

An excellent source for APQP (which is actually project management), is "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" published by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Hope this helps to get you started.

Stijloor.
 
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