APQP Documents Checklist
Voice of the customer
Review quality policy, business plans, and marketing plans
Review lessons learned database
Product and process benchmark
Product and process assumptions
Product reliability studies
Customer-specific requirements
Establish priorities (KPIs)
Define project goals
Customer purchase order
Drawings
Design goals
Quality goals
Reliability goals
Preliminary bill of material (initial BOM)
Preliminary process flow chart
Preliminary list of special product and process characteristics
Product assurance plan
Project team selection and kick-off plan
Management support
Design failure mode and effects analysis
Design for manufacturing and assembly
Design verification
Design reviews
Prototype build-control plan
Engineering drawings (including math data)
Engineering specifications
Drawing and specification changes
Change control for drawings
New equipment, tooling and facilities requirements
Consensus on key/critical product and process characteristics
Gages/testing equipment requirements
Team feasibility commitment and management support
Product/process quality system review
Floor plan layout (from incoming to shipping)
PFMEA (process failure mode effects analysis)
Process flow chart
Characteristics matrix (significant and critical)
Pre-launch control plan
Process instructions
Measurement system analysis plan
Preliminary process capability study plan
Packaging standards
Packaging specifications
Production trial run
Measurement systems evaluation
Preliminary process capability study
Production Part Approval (PPAP)
Production validation testing
Packaging evaluation
Production control plan
Quality planning sign-off and management support
Feedback
Assessments
Corrective Actions
Reduced variation
Improved customer satisfaction
Improved delivery performance
Effective use of lessons learned
Meet internal and external timing
Management review
Additional Recommendations