CASE 08 · CASE ATLAS · LEVEL B WORKSHOP SCENARIO

APQP gate readiness

SITUATION

A wind-turbine component is approaching an APQP lifecycle gate. The program manager needs to know before the gate meeting whether required actions, evidence and sign-offs are actually complete, rather than finding gaps during the meeting itself.

EVIDENCE

The APQP action list, linked evidence documents, and ownership and due-date fields for each required gate item.

AI APPROACH

Deterministic checking against the gate's required-item list surfaces overdue actions, missing evidence links and unresolved ownership; retrieval helps locate evidence that exists but is filed under an inconsistent name.

KEY CONTROLS

The tool reports gate readiness as a checklist of gaps, not a go/no-go recommendation; ambiguous ownership is flagged rather than assumed resolved.

VALIDATION MEASURES

Compare the gap list against a manual pre-gate review on several past gates to confirm nothing material was missed and nothing was falsely flagged as missing.

HUMAN DECISION

The gate owner decides whether to proceed, conditionally proceed or hold the gate based on the surfaced gaps; the tool does not make the gate decision.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. What is the cost of discovering a missing action during the gate meeting instead of beforehand?
  2. How would inconsistent document naming cause this tool to under-report gaps, and how would you catch that?
  3. Who owns resolving an item the tool cannot classify as complete or incomplete?

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