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There are some other terrific resources on the web for QFD information. We recommend a quick look at the following…
Explanations & Descriptions
- Quality Function Deployment (www.wikipedia.org)
Quality function deployment or ‘QFD’ is a flexible and comprehensive group decision making technique used in product or service development, brand marketing and product management…
- What is QFD? (www.qfdi.org)
…QFD links the needs of the customer (end user) with design, development, engineering, manufacturing, and service functions…
- Customer-focused Development with QFD (www.npd-solutions.com)
…Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a structured approach to defining customer needs or requirements and translating them into specific plans to produce products to meet those needs….
- QFD (www.isixsigma.com)
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a systematic process for motivating a business to focus on its customers….
FAQs
Tutorials
- Free QFD Tutorial (www.webducate.net)
This tutorial and exercise aims to introduce the approach to product, service and software design decision-making provided by Quality Function Deployment (QFD).
History
- Quality Function Deployment: History (www.wikipedia.org)
QFD was originally developed by Drs. Yoji Akao and Shigeru Mizuno in the early 1960s.These techniques extend the original HOQ approach by…
- History of QFD (www.qfdi.org)
QFD was developed in Japan in the late 1960s by Professors Shigeru Mizuno and Yoji Akao. At the time, statistical quality control…
- QFD: Past, Present, and Future (www.qfdi.org)
…When the name “Toyota” is cited in QFD history, most usually assume it is Toyota Motors,. but that is not correct. It was actually Toyota Auto Body where …
Case Studies
- QFD Case Studies and White Papers (www.mazur.net)
QFD case studies performed by Glenn Mazur in connection with companies ranging from Blue Cross Blue Shield to Nokia, and from Rubbermaid to Universal Studios.
QFD and DFSS
- QFD and DFSS (www.qfdi.org)
This is where QFD brings power to DFSS. A weakness of many design teams is that they expect that what the customer asks for is only what they want….
QFD vs. House of Quality
- Truth About the House of Quality (www.qfdi.org)
…Most interesting is that in many QFD studies, the House of Quality (HOQ) is not the starting point and can even be unnecessary. That “the House of Quality is the QFD” is a myth that is still propagated by many people….
General QFD Topics
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