AIAG Advanced Product Quality Planning, Third Edition, and Control Plan, First Edition
AIAG separated Control Plan into its own first edition and updated APQP in a third edition addressing sourcing, change management, metrics, risk mitigation, gated management, and traceability.
What the authority record establishes
AIAG separated Control Plan into its own first edition and updated APQP in a third edition addressing sourcing, change management, metrics, risk mitigation, gated management, and traceability.
Industry method; customer and contract requirements determine mandatory use
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
Software mappings need edition-aware phases, gates, deliverables, risk, sourcing, traceability, and control-plan relationships rather than a static checklist labeled APQP.
Affected operating stages
- Program Planning
- Product And Process Design
- Supplier Readiness
- Validation
- Launch
- Feedback And Change
Capabilities to examine
Advanced Product Quality Planning
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for advanced product quality planning.
FMEA And Control Plans
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for FMEA and control plans.
Supplier Qualification And PPAP
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for supplier qualification and PPAP.
Supplier Quality And Corrective Action
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for supplier quality and corrective action.
Change Control And Configuration Traceability
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for change control and configuration traceability.
Affected buyer audiences
- automotive quality planners
- supplier-quality teams
- new-product-introduction teams
- APQP software providers
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
AIAG methods do not create one universal customer submission path; customer-specific requirements remain controlling where applicable.