Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Quality Function Deployment



What is house of quality??

QFD is a methodology for defining the customer’s desires in the customer’s own voice, prioritizing these desires, translating them into engineering requirements, and establishing targets for meeting the requirements.


Steps in QFD Method:

1. Determining Customer Needs

Goal: Develop a complete list of all requirements

2. Determining Relative Importance of the needs (Done)

Goal: Evaluate importance of each needs

3. Competition Benchmarking (Done)

Goal: Determine how the customer perceives the competition’s ability to meet the requirements

4. Translating Customer Need into Product Specifications

Goal: Develop set of engineering requirements (design specifications) that are measurable

5. Setting Engineering Targets for the Design

Goal: Determine target values for each engineering requirements




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