APQP4Wind Academy
Wind power is one of the fastest growing sectors of the world’s electrical power industries. This course offers an unbiased insight into the modern wind turbine's design process, techniques, disciplines and tools.
About APQP4Wind
APQP4Wind is the common frame of reference to be used in the industry to strengthen the cooperation between Manufacturers and Suppliers and to ensure that parties on all levels communicate at eye level when it comes to quality assurance processes.
The key benefits for the wind industry of using the approach described in the APQP4Wind Manual are:
- A preventive approach to quality
- Shift from quality control to quality assurance
- Enables the maturing of the Supplier base globally
- Supports standardization and simplification of processes to reduce time to market and increase efficiency
- Full end-to-end calibration of the use and meaning of the APQP4Wind vocabulary
- Supports profitable growth and reduces risk.
The background for APQP4Wind is the continuous quality improvement that is needed to keep pace with the ongoing trend towards decreases in the Levelized Cost of Energy within the wind industry in order to support profitable growth and reduce risk.