Apqp - gm

General Motors Corporation

Advanced Product Quality Planning

Worldwide Purchasing
November, 2000
Revision 1

Preface

This Reference Manual represents the collaborative efforts of a GM worldwide team engaged to develop a GM Common APQP process. Prior to this, each General Motors Supplier Quality organization facilitated the implementation of the APQP process using divisional and regional specific methodologies.

The global team harmonized and standardized the various divisional and regional APQP processes and developed this GM APQP Manual (GM1927). This manual defines GM’s common global product quality planning requirements that are necessary to develop and implement an APQP process for a product or service. It is intended as a standard to provide the Supplier Quality Engineer, and the supplier, a common format from which to proceed with all steps of APQP.

This document is the first revision to the initial release and has been updated to reflect the most recent requirements set by General Motors for all Global Suppliers. As part of this update, a new section has also been added to support the activities on Modular Assemblies. Many of the Tasks have also been updated to include special activities for Modular parts and systems. Any activities for Modular APQP are shown in italic with a special superscript ( to highlight the task.

Approvals for this revision are as follows:

K. Williams M. Morretti
Worldwide Purchasing Latin American Operations
Supplier Quality Supplier Quality

R. Gasper M. Aldea
Powertrain Asian Pacific Operations
Supplier Quality Supplier Quality

W. Kraatz M. Schöenleber
North American Truck Operations European Operations
Supplier Quality Supplier Quality

J. Graff
North American Car Operations
Supplier Quality

Table of Contents

Table of Contents …………………………………………..………..…….... I-II

Manual Content Explanation …………………………………..………..…... III

APQP Process Model Flow ………………………………………………..... IV

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