APQP – Advance planning product quality

APQP training (Advanced Product Quality Planning) or Advance planning product quality is essential for organizations, which seek to improve product planning and development processes, ensuring high quality and customer satisfaction. Here are the main reasons, why you should enroll in this training:

1. A structured approach to planning: APQP provides a structured method for planning product quality, which includes all stages of product development, from concept to series production. This helps ensure a comprehensive and systematic approach to quality planning.
2. Reducing the risk of failures: By planning ahead and identifying potential problems, APQP helps to reduce the risk of defects and failures during the manufacturing process and after the product is placed on the market.
3. Improving communication and coordination: APQP promotes collaboration between different departments in the organization, such as engineering, production, purchasing and quality. This improves communication and coordination, resulting in more efficient project execution.
4. Compliance with customer requirements: APQP helps organizations understand and meet customer requirements and expectations, by guaranteeing, that the final product meets the set specifications and quality standards.
5. Increase product development efficiency: By using APQP, organizations can improve the efficiency of their product development processes, by optimizing resources and time, necessary to launch new products on the market.
6. Continuous improvement: APQP promotes a culture of continuous improvement in the organization. APQP training provides the tools and methods to analyze current processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
7. Compliance with standards and regulations: In a lot of industry, like the automotive one, APQP is part of the requirements for compliance with quality standards, such as the IATF 16949. APQP training helps organizations comply with these requirements.
8. Improving customer satisfaction: By guaranteeing the high quality of the products and the reliability of the production processes, APQP contributes to increasing customer satisfaction, which can lead to increased loyalty and repeat sales.

APQP training is strategically important for organizations, who want to achieve high quality in their products and processes, while reducing costs and increasing customer satisfaction.

Audience:

• Project managers
• Quality Engineers
• Design and Development Engineers
• Production engineers and operators
• Purchasing managers and suppliers
• Members of continuous improvement teams

Learning aids used:

Presentation, including examples from the Bulgarian industry, solving cases, video clips, discussions with participants.