Benefits of Quality Deployment Team

Quality Function Deployment (QFD)-House of Quality

Based on that –is an effective Management tool to drive the design process and production process with
the main aim of satisfying the customer needs.

The benefits of QFD are:

1. A systematic way of obtaining information and presenting it.

2. Shorter product development cycle.

3. Considerably reduced start-up costs.

4. Fewer engineering changes.

5. chance of overnights during design process.

6. An environment of team work.

7. Consensus decision.

8. Everything is preserved in writing.

9. It facilitates identification of the causes of customer complaints and makes it easier to take prompt
remedial action.

10. It is a useful tool for improving product Quality.

11. It is a useful tool for competitive analysis of product quality.

12. It stabilizes quality.

13. It cuts down on rejects and rework at the production site.

14. It decreases claims substantially.

15. Marketing benefits are obtained by identifying sales point.

Quality Function Deployment Process

Quality Function Deployment begins with

 product planning;
 continues with product design and process design;
 finishes with process control,
 quality control,
 testing,
 equipment maintenance,
 and training.

There for - As a result, this process requires multiple functional disciplines to adequately address this
range of activities.

QFD is synergistic with multi-function product development teams.

 It can provide a structured process

 Begin communicating
 decisions and planning the product.

It is a useful methodology, along with product development teams, to support a concurrent engineering
or integrated product development approach.

Quality Function Deployment

 A structure and planning approach

 More time be spent up-front in the development process
 making sure that the team determines, understands and agrees with what needs to be done
before plunging into design activities.

Regarding of that, the result, less time will be spent downstream because of differences of opinion over
design issues or redesign because the product was not on target. It leads to consensus decisions, greater
commitment to the development effort, better coordination, and reduced time over the course of the
development effort.
Quality Function Deployment

 Extremely useful methodology to facilitate communication

 planning, and decision-making within a product development team.

It is not a paperwork exercise or additional documentation that must be completed in order to proceed
to the next development milestone.

It not only brings the new product closer to the intended target, but reduces development cycle time
and cost in the process