TPM
Quality Function Deployment
Converting the customer’s requirements into “quality characteristics” and developing a design quality for the finished product by systematically deploying the relationships between the requirements and the characteristics, starting with the quality of each functional component and extending the deployment to the quality of each part and process.System for obtaining the…
Read More »A Useful Quality Table
Many people have the idea that a quality table has to be some gigantic matrix combining a required quality deployment table and a quality characteristic deployment table. Quality tables, however, are not created for their own sake. They are tools to be used for an express purpose, and to that…
Read More »Quality Deployment and a Narrow Definition of Quality Function Deployment
Quality function deployment is a concept that originated in Japan, and although it is known worldwide by the acronym QFD, the name quality function deployment is a direct translation of the original Japanese name: hinshitsu kinô tenkai. It was originally proposed in 1978 by Drs. Yôji Akao and Shigeru Mizuno,…
Read More »Conceptual Diagrams of Quality Function Deployment
There are many different schemes for graphic representation of QFD, including triangular and rectangular layouts, which outside of Japan are sometimes called house block drawings. Diagrams in which a rectangular section is crowned with a triangular one are said to resemble a house and are sometimes referred to as a…
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4M Analysis Process: Root Cause Guide for Manufacturing
Learn how to use 4M Analysis to find manufacturing root causes across People, Machine, Method, and Material with diagrams, examples, and checklist.
