In our company, the safe launch process happens when we are in the pre-PPAP phase on new work. So, each time we sample the new work for development, we have data that we gather or test that we conduct which we call a safe launch phase. For us we have three safe launch phases, the third phase happens at PPAP. The first two occur before PPAP. More @Wikipedia
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