Quality is fragile. Any golden standard can fall when it retains the status quo, and this includes a company of unfaultable reputation like Toyota. Here’s how modern QFD can save your business and why you should update your practice.
India embraces Modern Blitz QFD®
QFD by the book? What should you do when your boss demands a House of Quality?
Can ISO 16355 improve healthcare? — Decision making in a complicated system
There are many ways that QFD, the core of the new ISO 16355 standard, can help healthcare and insurance providers. This newsletter focuses on how CUSTOMERS can apply QFD to select the best product for them — from the point of view of the healthcare recipient. Medicare, a uniquely American health insurance for people who are 65 years and older, is used as an example.
Comprehensive QFD Deployments—Are they necessary?
"Little did we appreciate at the start that Comprehensive QFD would allow us to evaluate the functional, performance, reliability, and cost parameters of our products," one tech firm marveled after attending the QFD Black Belt® training. In Comprehensive QFD, each type of “quality” (such as security, safety, reliability, etc.) is analyzed as a distinct “deployment”. Knowing proper organization of QFD information sets is essential to deliver meaningful results in your product/service development.