A comprehensive review of the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) literature is made using extensive survey as a methodology. The most important results of the study are: (i) QFD modelling and applications are one-sided; prioritisation of technical attributes only maximise customer satisfaction without considering cost incurred (ii) we are still missing considerable knowledge about neural network...

One of the main problems within concurrent engineering is the visibility of activities and knowledge across perspectives. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a method to enhance communication between developers of different views. It is based on reconciled planning and communication procedures arranged around a form called House-of-Quality (HoQ). Descriptions like "Listening to the Voice of th...

Quality function deployment (QFD) help to realize significant reduction in product design cost and development time. The QFD process includes ranking customer preferences, rating the competitors, and parts deployment for the new or existing product. This study is carried out to understand the QFD concepts and implement this concept into the redesign of Monoblock submersible pump according to th...

This paper presents an approach to the application of Quality Function Deployment that brings together the models developed by Don Clausing (Enhanced QFD) and Akao. In this way, the proposed approach benefits from focusing, at the same time, at: parameter extraction, systematizing the decision taking process within its matrices (Enhanced QFD); and the identification of relationships among diffe...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used quality system tool for translating customer requirements (CRs) into the engineering design requirements (DRs) of products or services. The conventional QFD analysis, however, has been criticized as having some limitations such as in the assessment of relationships between CRs and DRs, the determination of CR weights and the prioritization of D...

Die BBE Handelsberatung GmbH vertreibt seit Jahren erfolgreich ein Excel-basiertes Tool für Unternehmensplanung und Controlling. Im Rahmen eines vom Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie geförderten Projekts, sollte dieses Tool zu einer Internet-basierten Lösung weiterentwickelt werden. Dabei war für BBE klar, dass man einen externen Partner brauc...

This paper presents the application of quality function deployment (QFD) to process analysis. QFD has been applied in various industries since the 1960s, but traditional QFD methodologies still have many limitations. An improved QFD framework is proposed, in which, customer requirements are identified through value engineering and strategic analysis. Process mapping using the IDEF methodology i...