AV Production Tip #3 - Plan for Traceability in Manufacturing Processes

15/02/2024 5 min

Listen "AV Production Tip #3 - Plan for Traceability in Manufacturing Processes"

Episode Synopsis

This video is part of a series focused on 7 Tips to Reliably Scale Autonomous Vehicle Production. The third tip is to plan for traceability in manufacturing processes.
The following questions are addressed in this video:

How can AV companies assure quality throughout production
How does the APQP process apply to AV assembly?
What role does traceability play for AV production?
How should product genealogy be handled?

Key themes include:

Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
Quality planning
Data capture
Manufacturing traceability
Quality control
Quality plans
Quality Management System (QMS)
ISO9001

About Edison:
Edison Manufacturing & Engineering is a niche contract manufacturer, focused on flexible and capital efficient assembly of complex mobility and mobility-adjacent products that are not well suited for highly automated production. Assembly, upfit, and retrofit for autonomous vehicles is one of Edison's core businesses, and is an area in which Edison has significant experience and expertise.

Edison website: https://edison-mfg.com/
Edison LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/70992427/
Brandon Bartneck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/

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