“INVESTIGATION OF PRODUCTION PART APPROVAL PROCESS AND INNOVATION OF CAST IRON MOUNTING FLANGE

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Effective June 1,2006, PPAP Fourth Edition replaces PPAP Third Edition, unless otherwise specified by your customer. Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) is updated to the 4th edition to incorporate the customer focused process approach associated with ISO/TS 16949:2002 and other changes listed below to update requirements. PPAP purpose continues to be to provide the evidence that all customer engineering design record and specification requirements are properly understood by the organization and that the manufacturing process has the potential to produce product consistently meeting these requirements during an actual production run at the quoted production rate. PPAP 4th Edition includes the following changes: . Aligning the order of the PPAP requirements with the automotive product development . Relocation of Customer Specific Instructions to appropriate websites, (e.g. OEM and IAOB,www.iaob.org) to provide current requirements . Update of Truck OEM requirements and moved to Appendix H . Revised PSW (part Submission Warrant) to: . . Provide a more logical flow for the part / design description fields . Make the suppliers address field applicable to international location . Include imds material reporting to indicate reporting status . Update specific ppap requriment Materials reporting and polymeric identification requirement in the design record. . Process capability index (cp.cpk) PPAP refers to the following reference manuals: Advanced Product Quality Planning & Control Plan, Potential Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Measurement System Analysis, and Statistical Process Control. These manuals are authored by DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors Corporation and are available through the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) at www.aiag.org. The Supplier Quality Requirements Task Force gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the many individuals and their respective companies that participated in the revision process

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