PPAP

Many quality teams treat PPAP submission as the paperwork that follows a successful FAI.

Get the part to print, run the first article, document it, submit.

Logical sequence. Wrong mental model.

FAI does confirm your part. However, PPAP is evaluated as a package by different reviewers against different criteria, with failure modes that differ from those for dimensional inspection.

You can submit a dimensionally perfect part and still get rejected three times, even if →