Learn the skills needed to implement the APQP process, develop control plans and complete the Production Part Approval Process smoothly, efficiently and effectively within your company. Additionally, acquire the skills necessary to complete all five APQP phases from "voice of the customer" through final output, including control plan methodology and PPAP submission.

Establish the foundation to avoid Murphy's Law; things that could go wrong don't have to when you learn to use FMEAs successfully. This course will teach you the skills to understand and use FMEAs and the concept of risk reduction and defect prevention. Turn your quality control around when you discover the impact of failure and how you can reduce the risk with FMEAs. Then, take your skills and knowledge beyond the concepts by learning the specifics of successfully developing and maintaining design and process FMEAs for your company, which includes identifying and reducing risk factors.

Establish a foundational knowledge-base to analyze your manufacturing system and enhance its effectiveness. Gain a basic understanding of how to establish, analyze and implement a statistical process control (SPC) system in a manufacturing environment. Discover the framework of how to implement and audit SPC fundamentals at your facility and develop a statistical toolbox that can be used for each of your projects that reflect the stability and capability of your manufacturing system. Furthermore, gain a better understanding of how to develop measurement studies for each of your projects that reflect the stability and capability of your measurement system. Identify the linkages between the measurement system, using techniques of measurement systems analysis (MSA) and the appropriate tools for defining its continued capability and effectiveness. In addition, this course includes activities to help you understand and audit your measurement system.