APQP stands for 'ADVANCED PRODUCT QUALITY PLANNING'. It is a quality framework used to develop products. The purpose of APQP is to produce a product quality plan to support the development of a product or service to satisfy customers. The APQP business tool augments the client’s existing quality process and captures information directly from CAD to auto-populate the application with available information. Monitor progress, attach relevant documents to each stage, capture sign-off and email notifications when milestone or phase gates are achieved.

The APQP business tool provides a complete record of all quality measurements and relevant certifying documents as a proof of record.

APQP facilitates communication between the supply chain and the organization / customer. Requirements that translate into more detailed specifications are clarified and decomposed to more detail as the process continues. APQP is used in 2 ways:

1. New Product Introduction (NPI) Support:
APQP supplements product development processes by adding a focus on risk as a substitute for failure. This allows the team to take action on the risk instead of having to wait for failure to occur in testing or worse, in the hands of the customer. APQP utilizes risk based tools that focus on all aspects of product and process design, service, process quality control, packaging and continuous improvement. Each application of APQP may be unique to a previous application because of the percentage of new content, changes to current off-the-shelf technology or past failure history.

2. Product or Process Change (Post Release):
APQP follows a product or process change outside of Product Development and assures the risk of change is managed successfully by preventing problems created by the change.

Streamline Project Initiation

Quickly create new APQP and PPAP projects and then associate part numbers, customers, and suppliers, assign process/project ownership and capture key project due dates.

Continually Improve your Corporate Quality Program

DataFill APQP software is a key piece of your corporate quality program and works with other Intelex solutions to improve quality management and harden your supply chain.