APQP_3rd_Edition_and_Control_Plans-v4.pdf

APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) is a stage-gate process for New Product Development (NPD). Learn about its meaning, phases, history, applicability on quality management, and implementation here!

1. Enterprise Digitalization of
APQP 3rd Edition & Control Plans V.1
White Paper
Dave Watkins, Nov 2024
Omnex Systems LLC
315 E. Eisenhower Parkway
Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[email protected]
www.omnexsystems.com

2. 2
Enterprise Digitalization of
APQP 3rd Edition & Control Plans V.1
FIG ASince the introduction of APQP, the challenge
for organizations in the automotive industry
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2-dimensional forms and spreadsheets when
the ability to actually manage information
and data has been the issue. Organizations
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for-purpose spreadsheet software like Excel
to create and maintain as living, linked
documents, DFMEAs & DVP&Rs, Process
Flow Diagrams, PFMEAs, Process Control
Plans, Process/Work Instructions and linked
inspection reports and data.
While there have been solutions offered
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to set up and use, not user-friendly and,
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?on the shelf?, rejected by frustrated users.
Also, and very importantly, most have not
offered an integrated project management solution, which is now essential to achieve
conformance with the new APQP 3rd Edition
approach to gated project management
with recommended agendas, check lists,
approvals and management of APQP Metrics.
At the same time, automotive customers,
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Requirements, have begun to mandate
software solutions capable of creating
Foundational or Family FMEAs, provided with
inheritance to sub-families and components,
as well as containing hard-wired linkages,
particularly between DFMEA and PFMEA, and
between PFD, PFMEA and PCP, incorporating
and controlling Special Characteristics.
(See Figures A and B, below) In addition,
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needed to accommodate a host of other
APQP-related CSRs.
Global
Documents
Tables
Documents
Tables
Documents
Tables
Parent /
Core FMEA
Child /
Application
FMEA 1
Child /
Application
FMEA 2
Grand Child /
Application 1
Variant
Creating Design and
Process Documents using
Inheritance

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FIG BAlong with these basic aligned and linked
tools and artifacts, an adequate solution
needs to provide similar capability for Risk
Registers and Risk Mitigation, Boundary/
Architecture Diagrams, P-Diagrams, Function
Matrices, Interface Matrices, DRBFMs, and
check sheets, as well as all of the agendas and
checklists recommended for the planning,
management and documentation of the
entire APQP/NPD process, with real-time data
to enable effective Gate Reviews.
Most of which actually have been within the
capabilities of Omnex Systems? EwQIMS?
software, some for well over a decade.
However, in the face of the rapid evolution of
the industry to incorporate Functional Safety
in EV/AV, Cybersecurity, and the essential
need to employ the capabilities of AI to
enhance and accelerate knowledge creation,
management and use/re-use, EwQIMS, too,
has rapidly evolved to address essentially all
of these challenges and needs, so that they
are available NOW, including 5 PLATFORMS
already enabled with AI enhancements:
EQMS.AI
NPI.AI
EMobility.AI
QHSE.AI
SQM.AI The NPI.AI, which supports and integrates
New Product Introduction, with Q-BOTs
for New Product Launches, Requirements
Engineering, advanced Document Analysis
and automated processing (e.g. PPAP review,
FMEA reviews, etc.), Problem Solving & Root
Cause Analysis, and Predictive Analytics.
Along with these new capabilities, of course,
the Platform provides support for planning
and conducting all of the Gate Reviews and
completing and even customizing APQP
and Gate Review Checklists, along with
management and reporting on APQP Metrics.
Omnex Systems has consistently anticipated,
planned for and, in most instances,
exceeded the needs and expectations of
user organizations and their personnel
actually doing the work, enabling them
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value of digitalization in all of their tasks:
risk analyses, the writing and maintenance
of APQP knowledge and risk management
documents and related artifacts, while
maximizing the effective use of automation,
control over and communication within all
of the key APQP processes throughout both
small local organizations or fully extended to
multi-site global organizations.

4. Omnex Systems LLC
315 E. Eisenhower Parkway
Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[email protected]
www.omnexsystems.com
Dave Watkins, Executive Consultant at Omnex Inc.
Author information
Dave Watkins, Executive Consultant at Omnex Inc., has a diverse background in general
management, manufacturing, production, human resources, and distribution management
across various industries. Dave has spent over 25 years working with global automotive, aerospace
and rail transportation companies successfully developing, deploying and implementing NPD
systems and processes incorporating the risk and knowledge management elements of APQP.