Publisher's Synopsis
Make the Most of QFD and the Voice of the Customer in Six Sigma Environments
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) techniques have helped thousands of organizations deliver higher-quality, more user-focused product designs. Now, Lou Cohen's classic guide to QFD has been thoroughly updated to fully align QFD with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and other state-of-the-art Six Sigma methodologies.
Revised by world-class Six Sigma expert Joe Ficalora and his team at Sigma Breakthrough Technologies, this new edition's up-to-date perspective on QFD reflects dozens of successful Six Sigma and DFSS deployments. They offer a start-to-finish methodology for implementing QFD, and systematically illuminate powerful linkages between QFD and Six Sigma, DFSS, Marketing for Six Sigma (MFSS), and Technology for Six Sigma (TFSS). An expanded, start-to-finish case study demonstrates how QFD should function from all angles, from design and marketing to technology and service.
Learn how to
- Identify the roles and advantages of QFD in today's global business environment
- Understand every element of the House of Quality (HOQ)
- Use QFD to drive more competitive product and service development
- Move from the processes you have to the processes you want
- Anticipate QFD's unique challenges, overcome its obstacles, and deploy it successfully
- Extend the HOQ concept all the way through project completion
- Deploy powerful Voice of the Customer (VOC) techniques throughout all phases of development, not just planning
- Adapt QFD for software development, service development, and organizational planning
