Advanced Product Quality Planning            Benefits
    To direct resources to satisfy customer
    To promote early identification of required 
       changes
    To avoid late changes
    To promote a quality product on time at the 
       lowest price
                                   
     Advanced Product Quality Planning          Stages
      Organize the team
      Define the scope
      Team to Team
      Training
      Customer and supplier involvement
      Simultaneous engineering
      Control plans
      Concern resolution
      Product quality timing plan
      Plans relative to the timing chart
                                        
    APQP -  Product Quality Timing PLan
    Plan and Define the Program
    Product Design and Development
    Process Design and Development
    Product and Process Validation
    Feedback, Assessment and Corrective Action
                                  
    Plan and Define the Program- Input
    Voice of Customer
    Business Plan/Marketing Strategy
    Product/Process Assumptions
    Product reliability Studies
                                  
    Product Design and Development - Input
    Design Goals
    Reliability and Quality Goals
    Preliminary BOM
    Preliminary