2. QFD (QUALITY FUNCTIONAL DEPLOYMENT)

 

• Basically this relates the customer requirements (i.e., product specifications) to the product design parameters (i.e., final designs) mathematically. The result is a mathematically driven product redesign.

 

• Also known as House of Quality

 

• Advantages,

- reduction of the product design time

- cost reduction

- exposes design trade-offs early

- provides written documentation of design decisions

- design errors and corrections reduced

- provides clarity for decisions

 

2.1 The Method

2.2 REFERENCES