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Achieving high standards of a product quality at minimum cost is only possible using modern methods and approaches of the quality management. For most companies, their application is vital regarding their competitiveness in the business area. This is valid also for the automotive industry, where modern approaches to quality management becoming the standard. One of these approaches mainly used in the automotive industry is PPAP (Production Part Approval Process). The advantage of companies using PPAP consisted mainly in strengthening of supplier awareness of special customer requirements for the particular product. The paper deals with the possibilities of application PPAP for suppliers of metallurgical products. Based on the analysis of selected organizations producing metallurgical products for the automotive industry main advantages of PPAP implementation will be specified.
Keywords: APQP, PPAP, Process Flow Chart, PSW© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.