Ford APQP Form Requirements

[Casana]

Being pretty new to QS, I'm trying to make heads & tails out of APQP (yeah, I know, that way lies madness...) but anyway...
I was looking at the forms in Apqpford.xls (in the pdf folder) and I was trying to understand the source for requiring all the information listed in the forms. I looked in the APQP book but I could not find references to many of the requirement listed. Am I missing something or are these "Ford" specific requirements?
Thanks!
-Ana

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[Howard Atkins]

These are forms for reporting to Ford and guidelines to check your work.
These are to "help" .