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APQP Internal Assessment Checklist

Customer: Audit Date:


Audit Type: APQP Internal Assessment Auditor:
APQP Phase / Support Process: Project Planning / Project / Platform:
Management Department:
Checklist: Page 1 of 3 Area :

Author: Quality-One Date Created:


Requirements 1 2 3 4 5 Notes

1. Are there personnel defined with the responsibility of


Project Planning and Management of Projects?

2. Is adequate training or skill available to Project


Planning and Management personnel?

Deliverables may include: skill assessments, training


plans.
Skills and Training may include: Project Management
Techniques, Timing / Critical Path Planning, Team
Building, Budgeting
3. Are System Level Project Plans utilized? Do plans
consist of the following:

o Team identification for major product


systems
o Definition of major milestone timing
o Identification of System level risk
assessment review criteria with review
schedules
o Identification of analytical studies and
testing with timing
o Training Plans
o Deliverable Identification (Deliverable
Matrix)
o Responsibilities defined for each deliverable
(Responsibility Matrix)
o System Level Design Verification Plans
o Include a feedback and Corrective Action

4. Do project teams meet on a regular basis to review


project timing, targets/objectives versus status, risk
and opportunities, roadblocks, and open design and
manufacturing issues?

Deliverables may include: meeting minutes, open issue


reporting, etc.
5. Are Manufacturing Engineering personnel:
o Involved in all phases of the design
development?
o Included in all management design reviews?
o Included on all Risk Assessments sign-offs?

6. Does the project team maintain an Open Issues


record, which identifies: Item Description, Actions,
Status, Priority, Required and Actual Completion
Dates, and Responsibilities?

7. Are risk and opportunity lists maintained?


APQP Internal Assessment Checklist

Customer: Audit Date:


Audit Type: APQP Internal Assessment Auditor:
APQP Phase / Support Process: Project Planning / Project / Platform:
Management Department:
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Requirements 1 2 3 4 5 Notes

8. Is the project Manager accountable for


communication between the product and
manufacturing team members?

9. Does the project team participate in early stages to


support cost assumptions associated with quality,
warranty, and customer satisfaction?

10. Does the project team utilize metrics to monitor it’s


performance?

11. Are suppliers included in project team meetings?

12. Is there a documented Product Development


Process? Is the Process complete and methodical? Is
it published and instituted at the beginning of each
project and is it being followed? Does the process
continue through launch, including Product
Development Launch support?

13. Does the Product Development Process include:

o Regular design reviews?


o Reliability reviews?
o Risk Assessments to evaluate deliverables,
outstanding issues with recovery plans?
o Senior Management sign-off’s at key
milestones?
o Manufacturing Feasibility?
o Identification and addressing of significant and
critical characteristics?
o Prototype development and testing time-lines
with prove out evaluation time?
o Manufacturing Engineering (ME) responsibilities
and key deliverables?
o Product Development approval of manufacturing
process plans and control plans?
o Consideration and sign-off of serviceability?

14. Does Management provide visible leadership of the


Quality Planning effort?

15. Are Design and Process FMEA development and


application a documented part of the Product
Development process which include:
o Sign-off approval from Product Development
o Development and use of Generic FMEA’s for
each commodity or system
o A library of FMEA’s which is maintained and
which can be easily retrieved
APQP Internal Assessment Checklist

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Audit Type: APQP Internal Assessment Auditor:
APQP Phase / Support Process: Project Planning / Project / Platform:
Management Department:
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Requirements 1 2 3 4 5 Notes

16. Are test plans developed for each design level and
formalized in a Design Verification Plan? Are they
reviewed and updated to meet all customer
expectations as part of the Product Development
Process? Do Test Plans originate from DFMEA’s

17. Are Control Plans utilized for Prototype, Pre-Launch


(Pilot), and Production?

18. Do all high-risk failure modes identified on the FMEA’s


have prevention methods designed into the respective
processes?

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Auditor Additional Notes:

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