Search Results - subject:"quality function deployment"

Abstracting/abstract adaptation to digital environments: research trends

Pinto, Maria - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 5, pp. 581-608

The technological revolution is affecting the structure, form and content of documents, reducing the effectiveness of traditional abstracts that, to some extent, are inadequate to the new documentary conditions. Aims to show the directions in which abstracting/abstracts can evolve to achieve the...

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The leading edge in QFD: past, present and future

Akao, Yoji; Mazur, Glenn H. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 1, pp. 20-35

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been practiced by leading companies around the world since 1966. Its two …

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The leading edge in QFD for software and electronic business

Herzwurm, Georg; Schockert, Sixten - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 1, pp. 36-55

In this article an overview of the state‐of‐the‐art of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in software development or …

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The leading edge in strategic QFD

Hunt, Robert A.; Xavier, Fernando B. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 1, pp. 56-73

Introduced to the West from Japan, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a powerful approach to customer‐focused product …

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The state‐of‐the‐art of the Brazilian QFD applications at the top 500 companies

Cauchick Miguel, Paulo A. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 1, pp. 74-89

Since Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been applied all over the world, a number of surveys have been conducted in …

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Applying Quality Function Deployment to environmentally conscious design

Masui, Keijiro; Sakao, Tomohiko; Kobayashi, Mitsuru; … - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 1, pp. 90-106

Presents a methodology for applying Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for environmentally conscious design in the early …

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QFD in product development: methodological characteristics and a guide for intervention

Chih Cheng, Lin - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 1, pp. 107-122

This paper aims to contribute further to QFD applications in product development system of organisations by drawing reflections from managing an action research program on QFD applications in Brazilian organisations in the last ten years. The reflection follows two interwoven lines, theory and...

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Performance excellence: a QFD approach

Walden, Jim - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 1, pp. 123-133

Function Deployment (QFD) will demonstrate applicability to the design and development of a large organization. … strategic thrusts and initiatives at A&T address the individual items within the criteria. This unique application of Quality …

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Strategic management by business metrics : An application of combinatory metrics

Fehlmann, Thomas M. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 1, pp. 134-145

Applications of comprehensive Quality Function Deployment (QFD) – or QFD in the broad sense – to strategic management …

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Industrial practice in designing for quality

Booker, Julian D. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 3, pp. 288-303

The improvement of the quality of design and the reduction of failure related cost is seen as a crucial competitive requirement for UK manufacturing industry. To achieve these goals, industry must adopt current methods in support of design for quality (DFQ) for analysing potential problems and...

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