Applying quality function deployment (QFD) to improve the competitiveness of a manufacturing enterprise

M. Barad*

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Abstract

To improve its competitiveness, an enterprise has first to prioritize its strategic improvement needs. To deploy the strategic improvement needs to the action level, we use Quality Function Deployment, a structured and consistent framework. QFD is a product planning quality technique which extracts the customer needs or desires expressed in his/her own words, translates them into technical quality characteristics of a product planning, design, process and production. However, Quality Function Deployment is not limited to product planning; it is a multi-purpose technique which can be used for translating high level improvement needs of various systems to lower levels. Our virtual example propagates the improvement needs of a manufacturing enterprise from the strategic level to the action level.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied System Innovation - Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied System Innovation, ICASI 2015
EditorsTeen-Hang Meen, Stephen D. Prior, Artde Donald Kin-Tak Lam
PublisherCRC Press/Balkema
Pages815-818
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781138028937
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventInternational Conference on Applied System Innovation, ICASI 2015 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 22 May 201527 May 2015

Publication series

NameApplied System Innovation - Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied System Innovation, ICASI 2015

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Applied System Innovation, ICASI 2015
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period22/05/1527/05/15

Keywords

  • Concerns
  • Improvement needs
  • Quality function deployment
  • Strategic planning

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