This paper presents a literature review of quality function deployment (QFD) based on a reference bank of about 650 QFD publications established through searching various sources. The origination and historical development of QFD, especially in Japan and the US, are briefly accounted first, followed by a partial list of QFD organizations, softwares, and online resources. Then a categorical anal...

All systems of quality management address the same standards and objectives of quality education, but with varied emphasis on inputs, throughputs, or outputs. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a form of management functional with objectives. Deployed in Universities, it probes the relationship between the cognitive, psychomotor and affective traits of graduates as products on one side, and t...

using the effective management tools that are relevant tothe organization’s needs for excellence has become so important for thecompanies to improve their performances and then increase customersatisfaction and gain market shares. quality function deployment is anefficient and powerful tool in design, development, and planning of products.the main function of quality function deployment is conv...

with regard to the importance of technological developments, senior enterprise managers should be aware of their organization's technological capabilities, changes and developments in the world, and also have information from their rivals' efforts in achieving new technologies, to be in line of their organization's technology developments. therefore a technological needs assessment model, is de...

In today’s competitive business environment, it is extremely important to offer customers exactly the products they want. Software product lines have the potential to enable companies to offer a larger variety of products while still being able to manage the complexity caused by this increased number of products. But offering a large number of variants does not necessarily mean increased profit...

In recent years, several Total Quality Management (TQM) techniques have been introduced for better Software Quality Management. One of these techniques is Quality Function Deployment (QFD). This papers shows how QFD has been applied to an existing software quality assessment technique, the Quality Factor technique (QF). This improved technique, QFD, uses ISO/IEC 9126:2000 standards in its imple...

The purpose of this paper is to apply a fuzzy quality function deployment (QFD) approach to prioritize knowledge management (KM) solutions for an international port in Taiwan. First, the paper examines house of quality (HOQ) matrices to facilitate handling of the ‘what’ (i.e., KM requirements) and ‘how’ (KM solutions) aspects of the QFD problem, and proposes procedures for the use of a fuzzy QF...

Poor medication adherence among older adults is a widespread problem worldwide. As the population ages, design of smartphone management apps critical to improving adults. Taking an elderly reminder APP as example, this study proposes sustainable research method that integrates KANO model, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Quality Function Deployment (QFD), and PUGH decision matrix. The collects...