This article constructs a distribution’s location model, from the perspective of a firm’s customers, suppliers, and employees, by applying a systematic quality function deployment (QFD) approach. The proposed approach aims to assist a distribution company’s location decision in selecting an optimal location that satisfies the overall location requirements. The QFD procedure began by collecting ...

This paper proposes an eco-design method to systematically generate design concepts for the reduction of environmental impacts. The method is based on the integration of quality function deployment (QFD) and functional analysis (FA) at the early design stage. While QFD provides a framework to reflect the “voice of environment” in the design planning and evaluations, FA focuses on the functional...

Business modelling is not new and has had substantial impacts on the way businesses are planned and operated these days. Although ‘e-business’ and ‘sustainability’ are the two current major global trends but surprisingly none of the e-business modelling ideas covers the sustainability aspects of the business. Researchers are introducing ‘green IT/ICT’ concept lately but none of them clearly exp...

Article history: Received 14 October 2013 Received in revised form 19 March 2014 Accepted 25 April 2014 Available online 16 May 2014 R&D planning for emerging technologies that reflect customers' future needs has a crucial role in national economies. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical quality function deployment (QFD) framework that enables one to set R&D priorities and then develop corre...

There is a close analogy between electroweak instanton-induced baryon plus lepton number (B + L) violating processes in Quantum Flavor Dynamics (QFD) and hard QCD instanton-induced chirality violating processes in deep-inelastic scattering. In view of the recent information about the latter both from lattice simulations and from the H1 experiment at HERA, it seems worthwhile to reconsider elect...

The aim of this investigation was to help select design criteria that highlight customer satisfaction, and thus improve the quality in buildings, specifically a building thermal hotel. methodology is based on applying Quality Function Deployment (QFD) technique listen voice customer, addition Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which allows selection best alternative. literature shows QFD–AHP met...

Companies pursuing extension of their activities and new companies in establishment phase are using various concepts and techniques to consider location decision, because location greatly a®ects both ̄xed and variable costs and on the overall pro ̄t of the company. This paper suggests a new use of quality function deployment (QFD) for facility location selection problem instead of applying it to ...

The decision on the specification of a product development process based on the general platform is determined by the customer requirement/needs analysis, that is, the quality function deployment, through which common parts/components, options, and so on, are determined and MC level (number of derivative products) is decided through the requirements of customers. However, the current QFD method...

quality function development (qfd) is a planning tools used to fulfill customer expectation and qfd is a systematic process to translating customer requirement (whats) into technical description (hows). qfd aims to maximize customer satisfactions related to enterprise satisfaction. the inherent fuzziness of relationships in qfd modeling justifies the use of fuzzy regression for estimating the r...