Advanced Product Quality Planning
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) is the cornerstone upon which Romeo RIM, Inc. builds lasting customer relationships. Through this process customer expectations and requirements are identified and communicated throughout the Romeo RIM organization.
A thorough execution of the APQP process ensures that Romeo RIM, and their customers, launch products that have been validated to meet, or exceed market requirements and to do so meeting Quality, Delivery and Cost objectives.
The basic elements of the APQP process are:
Plan & Define Program - determining customer needs, requirements and expectations using tools such as quality function deployment (QFD), review of the entire quality planning process to enable the implementation of a quality program, and how to define and set the inputs and the outputs required of a successful program.
Product Design & Development - review the inputs and execute the outputs, which include failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), design for manufacturability and assembly (DFMA), design verification (including prototypes), design reviews, material and engineering specifications.
Process Design & Development – development of manufacturing systems and related control plans, these tasks include Quality System Review, Process Flow Chart and Plant Layout, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Process Work Instructions and Preliminary Process Capability Study.
Product & Process Validation - validation of the selected manufacturing process and its control mechanisms through trial production run evaluation, Process Capability Studies, completion or the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Production Validation Testing and Production Control Plan.
Launch, Feedback, Assessment & Corrective Action - focuses on reduced variation and continuous improvement, identifying outputs and links to customer expectations and future product program.