This paper describes the development of computational support tools for practically successful engineering techniques. The paper reviews the requirements for manual Quality Function Deployment techniques, presents them, and discusses their limitations. It argues that computational support tools can alleviate most of these limitations and that a graph-based information representation for such te...

In this paper, an approach that attempts to improve conventional quality function deployment (QFD) technique in terms of effective design knowledge handling in product concept development is proposed and described. For this purpose, a QFD-enabled product conceptualisation system was established. It consists of three cohesively interacting modules, namely, design knowledge elicitation module usi...

Intense competition and sophisticated customer needs have resulted in the development of more complex products with a shorter lead time to market. One of the key factors in product development concerns the understanding and management of complex relationships between customers’ needs and technical requirements. Usually these complex relationships are expressed using imprecise descriptions in th...

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a customer-oriented design tool for developing new or improved products to increase customer satisfaction by integrating marketing, design engineering, manufacturing, and other related functions of an organization. QFD aims to maximize customer satisfaction; however, considerations such as cost budget, technical difficulty, etc. limit the number and the exte...

The QFD Quality Function Deployment technique large scope of application, has in this article, an approach based on how it is connected within the Technological Management Tools (TM Tools) range elected by the authors. Market Analysis, Technology Forecast, Benchmarking, Teambuilding, Networking, Creativity, Change management and others tools, depends strongly for its success. Employees involvem...

A structured method is called quality function deployment (QFD) that translates the voice of the customer into both of the product and service development. The architecture of QFD is composed of a set of matrices that is often referred to as the house of quality (HOQ). HOQ is regarded as a part of the QFD process. The matrices of HOQ include the importance of customer requirements and the relat...

Research on Component-Oriented Business Applications has focussed on Specifications of Components and Component Markets. Another approach based on Mass Customization and Software Product Lines is presented here. Mass Customization is a strategic concept used in many industries to offer products that are customer-individual, but based on a limited number of building blocks. Thus, customer value ...

Traditional QFD planning method compromises contradictions between engineering characteristics to achieve higher customer satisfaction. However, this compromise trade-off can not eliminate the contradictions existing among the engineering characteristics which limited the overall customer satisfaction. QFD (Quality function deployment) integrated with TRIZ (the Russian acronym of the Theory of ...

Quality function deployment (QFD) has been widely used in many fields; it is one of the structured approaches that are used to translate customer needs into specific quality development. However, in the traditional QFD approach, each element’s interdependence and customer requirements (CRs) for green supply are not usually treated systematically. The important function of green product lifecycl...