This paper employs Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methodology to translate customer needs and requirements into the quality characteristics to improve quality for an existing product to develop a new consumer product. The traditional quality function deployment technique consists of six steps. The purpose of the first step is to measure the voice of the customer that reveals his/her needs an...

Modern software systems are characterized by ever-changing goals and requirements. Such systems operate in an environment that is dynamic, open, partly known, unpredictable. New goals arise and others are dropped, due to changes in stakeholders’ needs and priorities, government regulations, technology. Despite this dynamism, systems should meet their goals and comply with the evolving requireme...

Cardiac function parameters are of utmost importance in the detection, characterization, and prognosis of acquired and congenital heart diseases. Cine and phase-contrast imaging are the basic imaging techniques for assessment of cardiac function. Beside a field strength of at least 1T or more, basic requirement for sufficient signal detection are the use of multi-element surface coils as they n...

The TWINS project addresses industrial hardware-software co-design product development. In search for a multidisciplinary modeling solution, knowledge is required about the current practice of multidisciplinary development in industry. By analyzing user requirements, use cases, and applied tools and techniques of six industrial partners, this paper presents the current status of multidisciplina...

Requirements prioritization is recognized as an important activity in product development. In this paper, we describe the current state of requirements prioritization practices in two case companies and present the practical challenges involved. Our study showed that requirements prioritization is an ambiguous concept and current practices in the companies are informal. Requirements prioritizat...

Satisfying customers is usually pursued by identifying their needs and translating their demands into design targets and thereby assessing the implementation of improvements on a continuous basis in order to attain the set targets. Quality function deployment is a planning tool used to fulfill customer expectations and in-depth evaluation of a product. The presented research aimed to get QFD mo...

In both the quality improvement and the design of a product, the engineering characteristics affecting product performance are primarily identified and improved to optimize customer needs (CNs). Especially, the limited resources and increased market competition and product complexity require a customer-driven quality management and product development system achieving higher customer satisfacti...

Document-based management of requirements can be effective for single site, narrowly scoped projects. However, we firmly believe that it is essential to move to a database-centered way of managing requirements if platform-based product development and enterprise wide requirements management is to be fully supported. This paper introduces an approach to the specification of system families that ...

The automotive industry is facing a tremendous growth in the engineering of software-intensive systems, giving rise to various challenges. To prevent problems related to the fit of new software technologies in vehicles and the manufacturing processes, a well functioning interaction between the functions for product development and manufacturing is crucial. This is complicated by the fact that t...