Any further on this topic?
I'm also wondering where PDP fits in and exactly what it is, could it have a different name within industry?
The paper "Supplier Involvement in Product Development Process (PDP) for Automotive Industry" by D.Leite and M. Borsato 2009 highlights tools and methods that influence the quality of PDP such as DFMA,
FMEA, DOE, Benchmarking etc which leads me to deduce that PDP and
APQP are similar techniques, am I correct in saying this?
How I currently view this is that PDP is the overall term, and APQP is an in-depth method/collection of methods within PDP, correct?