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Steps To Build A House of Quality
Steps To Build A House of Quality
House of Quality Steps
To build the house of quality, basic six steps are performed. House of
The basic graphic diagram for any House of Quality looks like this.
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Good taste
Low price
Low fat and healthy
Appetizing appearance
Fresh and hot delivery
Good texture
To build a House of Quality we need to deep-dive into the main features. This
part of building a House of Quality is normally a group exercise that requires
brainstorming.
The rst main feature is good taste. Taste is the rst thing that a customer
demands in any food item. The better the taste the more customers will
demand it. So, it should taste fresh, hot and spicy all the time.
The second main feature is low price. Price is the second most important
factor according to the customers. The customer always tends to purchase
food that tastes good at a low price. So, there shouldn’t be any compromise
on taste while keeping the price as low as possible to meet the customer
requirements.
The third main feature is low fat and healthy. No one wants to get sick or
become fat after eating something delicious. So, the pizza being sold to the
customers should be low in fat and it should be part of a healthy diet for the
customer. This is the key to winning the customer’s order.
The fourth main feature is appetizing appearance. The pizza should look
mouthwatering. It should look delicious, appetizing and spicy, even if the
customer hasn’t yet tasted one.
The fth main feature is fresh and hot delivery. No one wants to have a stale
pizza. Everyone wants a fresh and hot pizza, even if they’d ordered it home.
Quick-n- Hot delivery should be maintained for all customers or else we’ll
lose our customers.
The sixth main feature is a good texture. Well, the texture is the lowest
priority of customers. It is same as the appearance of pizza but it is affected
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by shape, size, the method of baking, and ingredients too. Good texture for
each variety of pizza should be maintained.
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The rst feature is Delicious and Fresh toppings. It is a key material for pizza.
Delicious and fresh topping would surely help customers’ winning orders.
Low fat
Our customers want a healthy pizza. So, we’re going to use those ingredients
which are low in fat. Some ingredients are essential for the taste of pizza but they
have a high fat-value. Hence, we will try to use them as little as possible.
Optional eatables
Optional eatables are purely concerned with the taste and variety in pizzas. For
providing great and delicious varieties in our pizzas, we will use different optional
eatables to delight our customers. This factor is also concerned with price and
texture.
Pizza color
For an appetizing appearance of a pizza, we would have to add some arti cial
colors to our pizza product. Additionally, these avored colors also add spicy
tastes to pizzas.
Density of toppings
The density of topping is directly concerned with the thickness and price of a
pizza. To provide varieties of pizza, we will use a Low, Medium and High density of
toppings.
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Have a look at the diagram below. This step of building a House of Quality is
shown here in a simpli ed and explanatory way. Let’s have a quick example to
understand the table and how it is important for building our House of Quality.
The customer want of good texture has a medium relationship with pizza color.
Good texture has the customer importance rating of 1. According to the grid in
our diagram, medium relationship i.e. the bold green circle has the importance
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rating of 3. So, simply multiply 3 by 1. That’s it! The answer for importance rating
of pizza color is 3.
Please have a look at the diagram below. On the left-hand side, we have customer
wants. On the right-hand side, we’ve got Company A and Company B. According
to our grid of G, F, and P, we have tried to evaluate our competitors’ pizza against
customer wants.
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And here is our nal and full House of Quality or Quality Function Deployment
(QFD) diagram for Pizza.
Good luck building your own House of Quality in the De ne phase of your Six
Sigma project. Use this LEAN tool to identify exactly how to produce a product
that will delight your customers.
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House of Quality
Review by: Marilyn Mckinney
5 / 5 stars
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When someone says Six Sigma, we immediately think about the DMAIC process
for problem-solving. We think about processes with problems that cause them to
deliver products or services with too much variation. We think about Green Belt
training (http://masterofproject.com/p/lean-six-sigma-green-belt-certi cation-
training). This is brie y what is taught in a free Six Sigma Green Belt certi cation
training (http://masterofproject.com/p/lean-six-sigma-certi cation-overview).
However, there is another angle to Six Sigma. Sometimes a process needs to be
designed from scratch. Now you may ask yourself, why design a process that will
have a lot of variation in its output? You are right in asking that question, and that
is exactly what Design for Six Sigma or DFSS is for. DFSS is the Six Sigma way of
designing a process rst time right to have as little variation i.e. defects and
defectives as possible. It is an alternative Six Sigma approach
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main Six Sigma principles (http://blog.masterofproject.com/six-sigma-
principles/).
What is DFSS?
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Let’s talk about the DFSS approach to designing a process. Design for Six Sigma is
an approach to designing or redesigning a product and/or services to meet or
exceed customer requirements and expectations. DFSS is an enhancement to
your new product development process, not a replacement for it. A documented,
well-understood and useful new product development process are fundamental
to a successful DFSS program. Unlike the DMAIC (De ne-Measure-Analyze-
Improve-Control) methodology of Six Sigma, DFFS is not a universal process.
Each company or organization will use Design for Six Sigma differently. They
will implement DFSS according to their business needs, structure, industry, and
culture. Design for Six Sigma is an approach rather than a method.
New products/services
New process for a new product/service
Redesign of existing product/service to meet customer requirement
Redesign of existing product/service process
Why DFSS?
DFSS ensures that the Product/Service meets customer requirement and that
the process of this Product/Service is already at Six Sigma level. The intention of
Design for Six Sigma is to bring such new products and/or services to market
with a process performance of around 4.5 sigmas or better, for every customer
requirement. This implies an ability to understand the customer needs and to
design and implement the new offering with a reliability of delivery before launch
rather than after.
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IDOV is quite well known in the manufacturing industry. The IDOV acronym
stands for Identify, Design, Optimize and Validate. Let’s take a closer look.
Another popular approach to DFSS is the DCCDI approach. This stands for
De ne, Customer Concept, Design and Implement. There are some similarities
with the DMADV phases. Let’s look at the different phases of DCCDI
There are many alternative ways to implement DFSS, but all of the approaches
use the same advanced tools e.g. quality function deployment (QFD),
benchmarking, design of experiments (DOE), simulation, statistical optimization,
failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), error proo ng and so on. The methods
just differ in the number of phases.
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DFSS is a fantastic way of using Six Sigma principles to design products and
processes that deliver as few defects as possible from the start. Building a
process that takes the voice of the customer (VoC) into account from the get-go is
a very crucial bene t of using DFSS as a design model. While it may seem like a lot
of effort to go through the different phases of product/process development in
the data-driven Six Sigma way, the outcome of the process will never disappoint.
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DFSS
Review by: Jim Parker
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Cost Management is a really important one among all the project management
knowledge areas (https://blog.masterofproject.com/ten-project-management-
knowledge-areas/). There are several activities in a project, several project
resources work on project activities and several materials, tool and equipment
are used to complete the project scope
(https://blog.masterofproject.com/product-project-scope/). All these require a
budget to be allocated. Because you need to purchase tools, materials, and the
company must pay salaries of the project personnel. This knowledge area deals
with the management of the expenses and the budget of the project.
Note that, project management processes are documented and controlled by the
help of project management templates (https://masterofproject.com/p/project-
management-templates-downloadable). You can see sample free project
management templates (https://masterofproject.com/p/free-project-
management-templates) to have an idea of how they work.
In this article, we will go over the content and processes of Cost Management
knowledge area brie y.
The major output of this knowledge area is Project Budget. After the project
scope is clear and project activities are determined, each project deliverable and
each project activity will have an associated cost. Because, project resources will
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perform activities, and they have some costs to projects such as expenses, salary
etc. And there will be tools, materials or equipment that need to be used during
the project as well. These will require a budget as well.
Cost management knowledge area primarily concerns with the cost of resources
needed to complete the project activities. After the budget is determined, cost
management will keep on measuring and monitoring the cost performance of the
project to meet the agreed budget.
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project budget.
On the other hand, material costs, expenses for project personnel etc. will
be variable depending on the number of people or materials.
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