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Practical guides for the people planning, reviewing and improving production quality.

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Concepts

Action Priority vs RPN: the AIAG-VDA change explained

Why the 2019 AIAG-VDA handbook retired the Risk Priority Number in favour of an Action Priority table — and how to prioritise PFMEA findings with it.

8 min read · Concepts

Special characteristics: critical vs significant, and how they flow

What special characteristics are, the difference between critical and significant, and why they must propagate from design through the PFMEA into the control plan.

7 min read · Concepts

APQP vs PPAP: how the framework and the evidence fit together

Two acronyms, one launch. How Advanced Product Quality Planning and the Production Part Approval Process relate — and where one ends and the other begins.

6 min read · Concepts

Practice

How to run a PFMEA, step by step

A facilitator's walkthrough of the AIAG-VDA seven-step Process FMEA, from scope and structure analysis to risk analysis and optimisation.

10 min read · Practice

Examples

Worked example: PFMEA and control plan for a machined bracket

A concrete, end-to-end example — process flow, failure modes, S/O/D scoring, Action Priority and the matching control-plan lines.

9 min read · Examples

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