APQP – A Management Tool

Abstract

Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) is emerging as a stimulus exercise to rejuvenate the manufacturing procedure of a product in an industry. It is not an ambiguity over the other quality management program like TQM (Total quality management), Six Sigma, TPM (Total productive management) as it clearly emphasize on the process improvement rather than the quality improvement. The successful implementation of the APQP covers every lacuna that can arise during production. In today's competent environment it has become very important for industries to heed upon the productivity simultaneously with quality. APQP complies with a system which consists of planning the quality of a product in advance and then developing it in a strategic manner. In this paper, the authors discuss various concurrent phases of APQP in the development of a product which shows how the goals of APQP in industries can be achieved and surpassed through the complimentary usage of this approach.

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