QFD - Quality Function Deployment for product specification

QFD is a detailed planning technique aimed at translating the voice of the customer into specifications at each major stage of the product development process:

• QFD1 - Product Planning
• QFD2 - Part Planning
• QFD3 - Process Planning
• QFD4 - Production Planning

QFD encourages the design of products that give maximum customer satisfaction.

Benefits

• Products meet customer expectations better
• Improved design traceability
• Reduced lead times
• Reduced product cost
• Improved communication within organisation and with customer

QFD is integrated with a full set of other tools to produce TeamSET, the most powerful suite of concurrent engineering software. It encourages the design of products that can be produced at minimum cost and maximum quality and reliability to give maximum customer satsfaction. It gives the best results when used by multi-disciplined New Product Introduction ( NPI ) teams. This ensures that all aspects of the product design are considered from different points of view

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