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Service 05
APQP Documentation
New product introduction generates a documentation package with dependencies in every direction. AiroQue builds and coordinates that package, aligned with applicable aerospace quality and APQP requirements and with your customer's deliverable list.
1.0 Scope
Documentation and implementation support across the launch
APQP puts a sequence around introducing a product: understand the requirements, plan the process, analyze the risk, establish controls, prove the process can hold them, and release to production with evidence. Each phase produces documents the next phase depends on, which is why launches fail on coordination more often than on capability.
AiroQue produces those deliverables and keeps them consistent with each other. Where you have an internal program manager running the launch, AiroQue works to their plan. Where you do not, AiroQue can maintain the deliverable list, flag what is late, and tell you which missing item is blocking three others.
The dependency that causes most rework
Process Flow, PFMEA and Control Plan are frequently produced in parallel by different people under schedule pressure, then reconciled at the end — which is when the reconciliation turns out to be a rewrite. Built as a connected set, the sequence costs less and survives review.
AiroQue provides documentation and implementation support. AiroQue does not certify organizations to AS9100 and does not perform third-party certification.
- Deliverable
- Coordinated documentation package for the scope agreed, with a deliverable list and status tracking
- Typical inputs
- Customer requirements and deliverable list, drawings, proposed routing, program schedule, existing templates
- Formats
- Customer-mandated forms and submission structures, or your internal package structure
- Starting price
- $3,500 for a documentation package
- Scales with
- Number of parts, deliverables required, customer submission requirements, phase coverage
- Includes
- Process Flow, PFMEA and Control Plan development where those are in scope
- Revision support
- Package maintained through changes during launch, and after production release
2.0 By phase
What AiroQue produces, and when
Phase names differ between customers and programs. The work does not move much.
| Phase | Documentation activity |
|---|---|
| PlanningRequirements and program definition | Requirement review, deliverable list, documentation plan, identification of customer-specific requirements and formats, early risk identification. |
| Product and process design informationManufacturing feasibility | Review of engineering requirements against the proposed process, special-characteristic identification, measurement feasibility questions raised before tooling is committed. |
| Process design and developmentThe core set | Process Flow, PFMEA, Control Plan, inspection planning, work instructions, and the cross-document alignment between them. |
| Product and process validationProving it holds | Production-readiness documentation, risk-control verification, open-action tracking, documentation supporting capability and process proving activities. |
| Production and feedbackAfter release | Revision of the package for engineering and process change, incorporation of production issue history, ongoing documentation support. |
Deliverable coordination
For programs with many parts and a fixed submission date, AiroQue can maintain the deliverable matrix — what is required per part number, who owns it, what revision it is at, and what is outstanding.
Working alongside your team
AiroQue can take the whole package, or only the deliverables your team has no capacity for, working to your existing plan and formats without disturbing the rest.
3.0 Tailoring
Every customer's APQP looks different. That is the normal case.
Phase gates, deliverable names, submission formats and approval routes vary by customer and often by program within the same customer.
Aligned to the requirement you were given
AiroQue works from the requirement documents and deliverable lists you supply. Where your customer mandates specific forms, those forms are used from the start rather than reformatted at the end.
Phase and gate naming
Documentation is organized and labelled to your customer's phase structure and gate terminology, so submissions map to what the reviewer expects to receive.
Deliverable list
Scope is set against the customer's required deliverables for the program — not a standard package. Items you already have are excluded from the quote.
Forms and submission structure
Customer-mandated forms, cover sheets, indexes and approval blocks are used as issued. Where no format is specified, AiroQue proposes one and you approve it before work proceeds.
Part-family handling
Family-level documentation with part-specific supplements, or fully independent packages per part number, depending on what your customer will accept.
Level of involvement
Full package ownership through the launch, defined deliverables only, or a review-and-correct role over documentation your own team produces.
Program cadence
Status reporting and review points set to your program's rhythm — weekly during a compressed launch, or at gates for a longer program.
4.0 Adjacent services
Inside and around the package
Launching a new part or program?
Send the customer requirements and the deliverable list. AiroQue will scope the package, identify what you already have, and quote only what is missing.