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Organize the Team
Define the Scope
Establish Team-to-Team Communication
Provide Core Tools Training
Involve Customers and Suppliers
Implement Simultaneous Engineering
Develop Control Plan Format
Decide on Concern Resolution
Develop Product Quality Timing Plan
Voice of the Customer
Business Plan/Marketing Strategy
Product/Process Benchmark Data
Product/Process Assumptions
Product Reliability Studies
Customer Inputs
Design Goals
Reliability and Quality Goals
Preliminary Bill of Material
Preliminary Process Flow Chart
Preliminary Listing of Special Product and Process Characteristics
Product Assurance Plan
Management Support
Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
Design for Manufacturability and Assembly
Design Verification
Design Reviews
Prototype Build – Control Plan
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