PPAP
This demands a proper understanding of:
- Customer engineering designs
- Records and specification requirements by suppliers
- Delivery of processes that ensure product consistency during an actual production run.
- Customer engineering designs
- Records and specification requirements by suppliers
- Delivery of processes that ensure product consistency during an actual production run.
- Authorized Engineering Change Documents Customer Engineering Approval
- Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
- Process-Flow Diagram
- Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
- Control Plan
- Measurement System Analysis (MSA)
- Dimensional Results
- Records of Material / Performance Test Results
- Initial Process Studies
- Qualified Laboratory Documentation
- Appearance Approval Report (AAR) Sample Production Parts
- Master Sample
- Checking Aids
- Customer-Specific Requirements
- Part Submission Warrant (PSW)
PPAP necessitates a sample run on actual production tooling, using the same procedures, personnel, production facility, and all other aspects of the outlined production run. This is in turn is assessed across criteria to ensure consistency of requirements specified.
The Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) provides customers with evidence that:
The PPAP process is governed by the PPAP manual published by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and it is the ultimate resource for those in automotive supplier quality management.
The PPAP checklist includes all the requirements, called elements, for a complete PPAP package and identifies different PPAP levels (from 1 to 5). There are 18 possible elements that must be checked off.
Each PPAP level determines the specific requirements for each element and indicates which elements should be submitted to the customer.
Beacon Desyne can work with you to effectively document these processes to help deliver traceability and accountability.
The documentation areas include: