The plan of extra controls, containment, monitoring and escalation applied from start of production until the process proves stable, with the criteria for ending it.
Plan Work product in the APQP and PPAP lifecycle
It protects the customer during the period when the process is new and its risks are least understood. Launch problems otherwise go straight to the customer, with no shared definition of when the launch is over.
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