3.2. TRADITIONAL QFDS

A traditional QFD, taught in most classes on Six Sigma, is likely to be one of the following.

The first is a QFD consisting of four forms. The first form is the "House of Quality." This form covers product planning and competitor benchmarking. The second form is Part Deployment, which shows key part characteristics. The third form shows Critical-to-Customer Process Operations. The fourth is Production Planning.

Two other QFDs are the "Matrix of Matrices" QFD, consisting of 30 matrices, and the "Designer's Dozen," consisting of 12 QFD matrices.

Needless to say, these other QFDs take much more time and effort than the simplified QFD. Meetings to complete the traditional QFDs generally take at least four times as long as the ...

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