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QFD
A Quality Function Deployment diagram is a matrix used to depict
customer requirements.
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QFD
A QFD is used to capture the voice of the customer and translate it into
technical information that an organization can use in order to create or
improve a product.
Developed in Japan in the 1970s
Dr. Akao
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QFD
It is often called a House of Quality because:
Customer information is shown horizontally
Technical information is shown vertically
Customer
Information
Technical
Information
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QFD
QFD’s are planning and communication tools:
Used for new product development
Used to conform to customer demands
Used any time you have customers and you need to identify their
expectations and turn that information into workable technical
specifications.
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QFD
QFDs are planning and communication tools:
Used to help set strategic targets
Used to help determine priority issues
Used for analysis
Used to estimate what the competition is doing
Used to integrate complex information
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QFD
QFDs encourage:
Team building
Consensus
Creativity
Structure
Organization
Development of new ideas
Remove suggestiveness from the product development process
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QFD
Building a QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer
Have the customer rank the relative importance of his/her wants
Have the customer evaluate your company against competitors
Determine how the wants will be met
Determine the direction of improvement for the technical
requirements
Determine the operational goals for the technical requirements
Determine the relationship between each of the customer wants and
the technical requirements
Determine the correlation between the technical requirements.
Compare the technical performance with that of competitors
Determine the column weights
Add regulatory and/or internal requirements
Analyze the QFD matrix
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QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer
Capture the Voice of the Customer
Organize the Voice of the Customer
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QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer: Four types of customers
Those customers we already have and can’t lose
Those customers we could lose easily
Those customers we could gain with minor product changes
Those customers we can’t get.
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QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer: Categories
of Customers
Planner: Matches product with organizational need
Funder: Pays for product, installation, maintenance, or
operation
Auditor: Prevents misuse of product
Installer: Integrates product into its environment
Maintainer: Repairs the product
Operator: works with product
User 1: directly benefits from using product but may not be
final user
User 2: directly benefits from using product
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QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer: Kano Model
Satisfied Feeling
Exciting level
of Quality
Physically fulfilled
condition
Basic level
of Quality
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QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer: Capturing Customer information
Determine people to talk to
Determine the target market
Determine whether or not to survey with or without samples of the current product
Determine whether or not to use an outside organization to conduct the surveys
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QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer: Capturing Customer information
Determine people to talk to
Determine how to contact the customers
Focus groups
Questionnaires
Product clinics
Observations
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QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer
Listen
Observe
Probe
Ask for Reasons
Clarity
Understanding
Issues
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QFD
Determine the Voice of the Customer
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QFD
Step 1: Determine the Voice of the Customer
What does the customer want?
Organize the Voice of the Customer
Using one ‘voice’ per post-it note, write down all information
Sort/organize the information (including verbatims) that you have gathered
Arrange the voices into groups
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QFD
Step 2: Have the customer rank the relative importance of his/her wants
Rank them all (Ten is highest rank. One is lowest.)
Figure 11.4
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Step 4: Determine how the wants will be met
How will the company provide for the wants?
Translate the Voice of the Customer
Turn verbatims into technical requirements
Figure 11.6
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QFD
Step 5: Determine the direction of improvement for the technical
requirements
Figure 11.7
A downward arrow means that improvement would happen if we reduced the technical
requirements value
An upward arrow means that improvement would happen if we increased the technical
requirements value
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QFD
Step 6: Determine the operational goals for
the technical requirements
Figure 11.8
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QFD
Step 7: Determine the relationship between
each of the customer wants and the technical
requirements
Figure 11.9
How does action (change) on a technical requirement affect
customer satisfaction with the recorded want?
Strong positive correlation: Filled-in circle valued at 9
Positive correlation: open circle valued at 3
A weak correlation: triangle valued at 1
No correlation: empty box
Negative correlation: minus sign or x
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QFD
Step 8: Determine the correlation between the technical requirements.
Figure 11.10
Strong positive correlation: Open circle
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Step 10: Determine the column weights
Multiply rankings by correlation values
Figure 11.12
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QFD
Step 12: Analyze the QFD matrix
What did the customer want?
How is this supported by customer rankings and competitive comparisons?
How well is the competition doing?
How does our company compare?
Where will our emphasis need to be?
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