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Supplier’s PPAP - Production Process Control Plan Review, Evaluation and Approval?
I’m a PPAP coordinator responsible for collecting and approving PPAP documents. Often the first time anyone of us sees the supplier quality documents (Process Flow, Control Plan and FMEA) are when they are submitted to me in a PPAP. I then have the task of figuring out if the documents describe and control the supplier’s production process effectively.
Although I try to be thorough in reviewing the documents, (for example a review can take hours and several phone calls to the supplier) I have a hard time knowing if a flow, control plan or FMEA are adequate or not. This leads to problems especially when a quality issue in our plant leads to a review of the control plan which shows that a certain process lacked control, and I believe that is something that I should have identified.
Since many of the control plans issues are only identified after the fact, I thought it would be helpful if there was more of a management review of the control plan, kind of like a control plan sign-off? Are you aware of any control plan or quality document sign-off process that could help in this situation?
* I have also started doing on site control plan reviews which should help with future issues.
I’m a PPAP coordinator responsible for collecting and approving PPAP documents. Often the first time anyone of us sees the supplier quality documents (Process Flow, Control Plan and FMEA) are when they are submitted to me in a PPAP. I then have the task of figuring out if the documents describe and control the supplier’s production process effectively.
Although I try to be thorough in reviewing the documents, (for example a review can take hours and several phone calls to the supplier) I have a hard time knowing if a flow, control plan or FMEA are adequate or not. This leads to problems especially when a quality issue in our plant leads to a review of the control plan which shows that a certain process lacked control, and I believe that is something that I should have identified.
Since many of the control plans issues are only identified after the fact, I thought it would be helpful if there was more of a management review of the control plan, kind of like a control plan sign-off? Are you aware of any control plan or quality document sign-off process that could help in this situation?
* I have also started doing on site control plan reviews which should help with future issues.