Advanced QFD: Linking Technology to Market and Company Needs

by M. Larry Shillito

Overview

Covers basic principles and proactive and pragmatic quality function deployment (QFD) methods. Explains how to arrange groups in an industrial organization into design and development teams. Describes how to implement QFD to effectively produce quality products in a fashion that meets customers' needs. This book includes aspects of modern planning techniques, technological forecasting methods and value engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471033776
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/28/1994
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.63(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

M. Larry Shillito is the author of Advanced QFD: Linking Technology to Market and Company Needs, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Quality Function Deployment.

Constructing Basic QFD Matrices.

Creative Expansion of the House of Quality and OtherMatrices.

Variations on a Theme: Customer-Oriented Product Concepting.

Linking QFD to Planning.

Technological Forecasting Applied to QFD.

Organizing and Launching a QFD Project.

Quality Function Deployment: Behavioral and OrganizationalAspects.

Voice of the Customer (VOC).

Some Parting Comments.

Index.