Excel QFD Tool

A Quality Function Deployment tool essential to your DMAIC/DFSS projects--Quality function deployment (QFD) is a method to transform user demands into design quality, to deploy the functions forming quality, and to deploy methods for achieving the design quality into subsystems and component parts, and ultimately to specific elements of the manufacturing process. QFD is designed to help planners focus on characteristics of a new or existing product or service from the viewpoints of market segments, company, or technology-development needs. QFD is applied in a wide variety of services, consumer products and emerging technology products. The technique is also used to identify and document competitive marketing strategies and tactics. The QFD Tool is available in both Excel 2007 and 97-2003 versions. It consists of the worksheets outlined below, a completed Sample Worksheet and an in-depth User Guide. The Sample Worksheet offers significant help in understanding and using the product b